My little dude has been home “sick” from school 4 times since it started and our whole family has been battling “something” funky.
A re-occuring fever, funky belly and a willingness to go to bed at 730pm.
“Something is going around” is the overheard conversation in the school yard, grocery store and swimming pool. Winter colds, fall bugs and all of us indoors and in close quarters helping the little buggers breed and breed until they overcome us.
But, WE SHALL NOT BE OVERCOME.
(and you can imagine me standing upon a tree stump, shovel raised high to the night sky, shouting to the world)
Or at least, I will not be overcome.
When the kids go down for the count I am there, rubbing their backs, pushing work off for tomorrow and making toasted cheese sandwiches. I act like a human couch watching re-runs of Magic School Bus while the 4 year old battles his bugs. I change the sweaty sheets of my 10 year old as I scrape her from her sick bed and into the bath.
And when I go down, we all go down.
Now granted, hubby is pretty fabulous and he has gotten MILES better in the last two years, but he still holds this strange resentment to me when I get sick. He gets angry, both at the SICKNESS and also at me for “BEING RUNDOWN”. He is a firm believer that we ALLOW ourselves to get sick, and encourage illness by completely unrelated behaviour.
Like going outside with damp hair. Or sitting on a cold bench for too long. Or not taking our vitamins.
Ok. .. maybe he has a point on the last one there.
So, to stave off both illness and my husbands wrath I fight back against the bugs. I get sleep, wear a toque and take my multivitamins.
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