Vents? I am sick so that’s mine

[nicolewi]

My son had a bad cold over the weekend. I was pretty much fine yesterday morning except I started coughing a little bit. I last night I had a fever and cough and sore throat. Covid test was negative. I still feel completely shitty today and I have so much stuff I’m supposed to be doing. I can hardly talk or do anything productive I don’t usually get stuff like this! This sucks.

I’m about to take some more Advil so hopefully that will help me rally a little bit.

[starburst604]

Ugh I had some crud like that over Thanksgiving weekend. It hit me hard the day after Tgiving and I spent most of the weekend on the couch and napping. Negative for Covid. I don't normally get that exhausted from a regular cold. Then H got it and as you might guess, his cold was MUCH WORSE than mine. Worse than probably any cold that ever hit any human, the way he was acting! I'm back at work and not tired anymore but the cough persists. DD has it too and stayed home yesterday but seemed a lot better by evening, so off to school she went this morning despite claiming she was still sick.

[noodleoo]

I'm sick too. Not too bad, started Sunday and I slept horrible that night. I was exhausted yesterday and ended up sleeping from about 2-5 PM. Oops. Luckily I'm functioning ok today, so hopefully it was a quick one.

My vent is that there are SO many appointments this month! I don't know how they all ended up clustered but in the next 3 weeks we have:
1) DD2 well visit
2) DD2 allergist
3) DD1 dentist (checkup was 2 weeks ago but she has to have 2 teeth pulled UGH)
4) haircut for me (forgot to schedule so it has been 6 months!)
5) haircuts for kids (prescheduled)
6) eye dr. appt for me
7) DD2 ENT follow-up

OMG it is so much! It is a good thing I work part time, I don't know how I would do all these working full time. I need to figure out how to spread them out.

I haven't told DD1 about the teeth being pulled yet.  She has dental anxiety, we will be getting laughing gas for her.  I think I'm going to tell her a few days before because I don't want to spring it on her, but also don't want her stressing about it for too long.  Any advice?

[abs]

My vent is all the things are happening in the next 2.5 weeks!

*Elementary school music tour (DD is super excited to go see old teachers but is dreading the makeup work as they are gone all day)
*region band practice/performance
*robotics competition
*band winter concert
*3 birthday dinners
*spring softball tryouts
*several medical appointments
*final exams for DD

Not to mention get ready for Christmas? I’m so ready for winter break.

[ECB]

Yeah, sick here too. Mild head cold that I caught from DS. I HOPE it's mild... we'll see what tomorrow brings.

And abs, YES, we have so much going on. It's insane. I'm going to NYC Friday on a bus trip w/ a bunch of mom's from DSs school. A LOT of people have been dropping out - 4 people from our group alone (out of 8!!). And people dropping out this week can't find anyone to sell their tickets to.

If I felt I could sell my ticket, I might have seriously considered dropping too! (Of course, if this head cold gets worse, not better, it may not matter anyhow - may be bailing due to that!)

[jennistarr1]

My dad has been in and out of the hospital, basically chronic diarrhea throwing off his kidney numbers (type II diabetes)

first an apparent UTI transferred as bacteria to his blood, 5 days of IV antibiotic in hospital and 4 days of oral antibiotic...diarrhea persists, back in hospital for 3 days mainly of hydration. Cdiff dx has been on abx since Friday for that. Still having some diarrhea, saw PCP today who is rerunning labs but essentially told him to prepare to go back to hospital

I"m supposed to go with husband for overnight in NY for KISS final show on Saturday. My dad would typically watch my kids, but now my sis was...but now she'll have to be the primary caregiver for my dad (and his dogs) while I'm away...and that's just a lot to leave on one person as I frolic in NYC (but it's also my husband's bday). So I don't know what to do like at all.

[186momx]

So many appointments/events over the next 4 weeks. I have 5 more Fridays off before heading into my busy season where I work crazy long hours. All of those Fridays are booked with things for DD or holiday stuff and I want to cry. My lazy Thanksgiving weekend already feels like it was weeks ago instead of last weekend.

[nicolewi]

Nov 28, 2023 14:57:59 GMT -5 starburst604 said:

Ugh I had some crud like that over Thanksgiving weekend. It hit me hard the day after Tgiving and I spent most of the weekend on the couch and napping. Negative for Covid. I don't normally get that exhausted from a regular cold. Then H got it and as you might guess, his cold was MUCH WORSE than mine. Worse than probably any cold that ever hit any human, the way he was acting! I'm back at work and not tired anymore but the cough persists. DD has it too and stayed home yesterday but seemed a lot better by evening, so off to school she went this morning despite claiming she was still sick.

Ha ha! Literally was JUST joking about this with DH this morning...how if he gets it, it will probably be "1,000x worse" (but not really) and he will be out of commission for days.

[nicolewi]

Sorry to everyone with the sicknesses and yes, there's so much going on this month. It's crazy. I need to get my decorations up so I'd better improve before tomorrow!

jennistarr1, that totally sucks. How old are the kids? Could they stay with friends?

noodleoo, how old?? I wouldn't tell her until the day of the appointment and have a reward or something planned and let her know about the laughing gas. honestly, I might not tell her until just before, like on the way...but you know your kid. I have anxious ones who would fret for days and be super stressed and telling them in advance would do zero good.

[noodleoo]

Nov 28, 2023 17:25:12 GMT -5 nicolewi said:

Sorry to everyone with the sicknesses and yes, there's so much going on this month. It's crazy. I need to get my decorations up so I'd better improve before tomorrow!

jennistarr1, that totally sucks. How old are the kids? Could they stay with friends?

noodleoo, how old?? I wouldn't tell her until the day of the appointment and have a reward or something planned and let her know about the laughing gas. honestly, I might not tell her until just before, like on the way...but you know your kid. I have anxious ones who would fret for days and be super stressed and telling them in advance would do zero good.

She’s 8.5. First time for something like this so I’m not sure how bad it will be if I spring it on her… I’m afraid it might be more traumatic if she doesn’t have time to prepare.

[thebreakfastclub]

I have no vents but I wanted to ask how the birthday party was with the cake situation!

[jennistarr1]

Nov 28, 2023 17:25:12 GMT -5 nicolewi said:

Sorry to everyone with the sicknesses and yes, there's so much going on this month. It's crazy. I need to get my decorations up so I'd better improve before tomorrow!

jennistarr1 , that totally sucks. How old are the kids? Could they stay with friends?

noodleoo , how old?? I wouldn't tell her until the day of the appointment and have a reward or something planned and let her know about the laughing gas. honestly, I might not tell her until just before, like on the way...but you know your kid. I have anxious ones who would fret for days and be super stressed and telling them in advance would do zero good.

I like how you're thinking and that would be easy with the 8 year old, but there's also a 3 year old. My MIL has literally never changed either of my kids diapers so again 8 year old fine but 3 year old not fine. 

I think I'm going to create layers of back ups

[nicolewi]

thebreakfastclub, Cake-gate update: he texted me Sunday morning and asked if I was still bringing cake. I told him my cake was too old and worn out, so my parents were picking up cupcakes when they went to the store for everything else for the dinner. So that happened, and it was fine.