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przed ([personal profile] przed) wrote2008-04-08 07:57 am

Adventures in Parenting

The last few days have been, shall we say, challenging.

We woke up Saturday to find Rosalind had thrown up. And she then proceeded to throw up all day, which wasn't fun for any of us. (In between throwing up she was still pretty energetic, which I'm taking as further proof that little though she is, she has the constitution of a horse.)

Sunday, she was a bit off, but clearly recovering.

Then at 3 a.m. Monday, and in spite of the copious handwashing we did on Saturday, the Sweetie and I both woke up and started, you guessed it, throwing up, a state that continued most of the day. I'm just relieved that Ros could go to daycare (the Sweetie managed to take her there in between bouts of ick) 'cause I honestly don't know that we could have looked after her much ourselves. The day was spent almost entirely in bed, in between rounds of running to the bathroom.

At least we both seem to be over the worst of it, though I still feel like I've been run over by a truck.

Next time there's a big round of sick at our house, I'm kindly asking the gods that they stagger the illness so we're not both down at once.

[identity profile] st-crispins.livejournal.com 2008-04-08 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Heh ---I can't tell you how many bugs my son brought home from preschool and gave to me. He inherited my husband's immune system and got well in a day or two, while it would be weeks for me.

It gets better as they get older.

Something that did occur to me though: I was reading an article about tribal immunity and I'm wondering if adoptive parents have less imunity to their kids' bugs because they're not actually blood related.

Anyway, get better and stay that way!

[identity profile] przed.livejournal.com 2008-04-08 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
I can take the colds, but this was nasty. I'm sure we'll get a few more bouts before she's out of grade school, but I really hope I don't go down at the same time as the big guy. (We were both stuck in bed all yesterday, in between yak bouts, and would occasionally moan, "why don't we have a grandmother close by." Oh well.)

The tribal immunity thing is interesting. Shall have to track it.

On the positive side, though neither of us is eating much, we're both feeling much more human.