Envision this... Right now I am typing this in the same pajamas I have had on for days, Kleenex twisted and shoved up my nostrils, and a three year old asleep on my lap who feels like she is on fire with snot running down onto my leg and I don't care. That pretty much catches you up to where I am right now mentally.
For the past two weeks, yes that's right TWO, our household has been a germ infested nasty bucket that I can't wait to pour the heck out. It all started last Monday when my eldest woke up from a nap with a very obvious gunked pink eye. After a frantic call to her pediatrician (I know how contagious it can be and with three three and unders it was imperative to act quickly) I had him phone in some drops. I don't know if you have ever had the pleasure of trying to put eye drops into a toddler but if not we will compare it to trying to wrestle a raging bull/rolling crocodile/wild stallion type animal and then once you finally get it tied down you must now hold it still enough to drop something into it's eye FOUR times a day... Get it. No you don't. It's worse cause toddlers can tell you how much they hate you for it when you do it. Then naturally a day later my two year old gets it... Fun x 2.
Two days later, I finally breathe thinking we past the contagious window and we are finally done. But I get a sore throat. Then Daddy gets a sore throat and then my two year old gets a fever and boogers and a cough and yelling and screaming and tired and won't sleep, three year old gets congestion and I want to die and then... Daddy gets pink eye... I now went from taking care of three children to four. (I love my husband dearly but like my Mama wisely told me once... Men don't have it in their make-up to handle sickness. Understatement). My husband and I got diagnosed with strep and then our fever ridden two year got diagnosed with a severe sinus infection and viral something or other.
Okay so after 11 days I finally think we see the light at the end of the tunnel. Until today my three year old gets a fever and now they are telling me she has possible walking pneumonia. I quit. Throwing in the towel. My hands are literally bleeding from over washing. My house has been Lysol bombed and wiped and wiped again and we still are all sick. $350 in 7 days on co-pays and prescriptions and that's with good insurance. I know it could be worse but I'm drowning... in snot. That's all I got. No cute crafts, no good recipes. Just snot.
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