3 posts tagged “sick”

Not so good.  The mister has been sick and weird since before we went to NYC in August.  Monkey has been fighting snot and ear infections for the last two weeks.  I finally got their sicknesses a week ago.  Now, we're all supposed to be on the mend.  Monkey finished his antibiotics this morning so I took him to the dr to make sure that the infections were cleared up.  You see, I have reason to believe that the antibiotics didn't work. 

Saturday and Sunday nights were horrible in our house.  Monkey was waking up every fifteen minutes screaming.  Just standing up in his bed crying and screaming.  He didn't seem sick or feverish.  He seemed needy but it was unclear why.  And not needy in his usual way.  Usually when he wakes in the night, if I'm the one to get up then I just rock him in the rocking chair in his room for literally 1 or 2 minutes and then put him back in his crib.  These last 2 nights, he didn't even want or need that.  I'd go in there and say, What are you crying about?  It's time for night, night.  Go to sleep.  And he'd lay right back down, stick his thumb in his mouth, and appear to go back to sleep.  This has never been the case before.  I have never before been able to say to him, go back to sleep, and have him do it.  So that was weird.  Especially since he'd wake right back up 15 minutes later and do the same thing all over again.  This means that it wasn't that he wanted me to hold him like usual, he just wanted to know that I would come?  Or was it his ears still bothering him?  Or is he just not feeling good?  Unclear.  At the same time, the mister has been getting up and sleeping with him in the guest room.  When I think that monkey is sleeping well, it's because he's in bed with his dad, kicking and punching him for a couple of hours before dad gets fed up and puts him back in his crib.  Then I get back into the game.  Cycle. 

It is now 8:53.  The mister went to bed at 8, the monkey went to bed at 8:15--after the mister, yes.  It's rough around here these days.  Save yourself, stay away, get some sleep.

P.S.  Update: Turns out that his ears are all cleared up.  But he had a fever Monday afternoon and all evening Monday.  It's Tuesday now and he's home from daycare today (and I'm home from work) and we're going to start another round of antibiotics for his new sinus infection.  But he's acting really happy and vibrant and having a good time.  Thanks for the good vibes!

• I've got a ton of grading to do this week.  The kids in my two classes submitted their papers last night.  It's going to take me forever to grade 60 papers.  Also, I've got other weekly grades to compile for them.  And a ton of people didn't follow the basic directions and that makes things twice as hard for me.  I feel totally weighed down by it.
• I've also got to read a dissertation and have thoughts and comments on it for a student's defense this week.  Haven't started that yet.
  
• I still have no voice and can't take it anymore.  Going to the doctor today at 2.  I'm sure that antibiotics are in my future.  Not looking forward to that.  But something has to change.
  
• My good friend leaves tomorrow for good.  Going to try to have lunch with her today.  I feel very weird because I haven't seen her at all in the last week since she's been buying her new home in her new city.  Also, I don't think that we're doing anything "special" or whatever to send her off.  She's been my closest person here for the past 5 years.  I guess we're just pretending that nothing is changing.  I'll be okay with that.
• Monkey might be coming down with the sickness that I have.  Not sure yet.
• Talked with my mom this weekend.  She went to Mexico City last week for a religious tour (she's way Catholic).  It was a quick trip but it sounds like she learned a lot from it.  Very overwhelming poverty, chaos, smog and more on her short stay there.  She ate good though.  Said that the people were great and so was the food.  Still, it sounds like it was relatively eye-opening for her.  Since she's read
  

  People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.)

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  The People's History of the United States, by Howard Zinn, she seems to have a new perspective on these things (yes, my MOM read on her own just because she wanted to learn more about this country's history!  How awesome is that?!!).
  
• I think that you are now up to date on my life.
  

Wow, am I sick--I can't breath, I have no voice, and I can't stop coughing.  The monkey must have brought home something from daycare.  He seems to be fighting off a cold too, but not as bad as this one.  The mister is also fighting something, but at least he still has a voice.  I can't talk!  (I know, I know, maybe that's a good thing to shut me up for a while.)  Anyway, I haven't made it to yoga all week but I have done some work at home and in the office.  It really sucks being so congested when it's 108 degrees outside!  Ya know?  Yuck.