Adventures in Parenting

[przed]

Since we adopted Rosalind, a mere year ago, I swear I've had more childhood illnesses than I had as a child. I've had, in approximately chronological order:

Stomach bug, the first

An ear infection

Pink eye

Hand, foot and mouth disease (No, not hoof and mouth disease. Really.)

Pink eye, again

Stomach bug, the second

Not to mention various and sundry stupid colds and sniffly noses.

This past week I've managed to add one more to the list: tonsillitis.

Which wasn't fun, and basically knocked me out for the better part of four days, but is a better outcome than it could have been. Both my doctor and I thought I'd managed to once again get mono. (I had it, very badly, fourteen years ago.) Since it's possible that would have taken me out for MediaWest at the end of the month, I'm glad that got ruled out.

Anyway, that's a long way of saying I haven't been on LJ (or online at all) much in the last week, and since I've now got a zine deadline that's way beyond the drop dead point, I likely won't be on much for the next little while either.

Hope everyone's well, and I'm looking forward to catching up on lots of fun stuff when I've got a bit more time and feel a bit less sick.

Comments

[kortirion.livejournal.com]

I swear I've had more childhood illnesses than I had as a child...

Wait till she goes to primary school and comes home with nits! Or do you say 'cooties' - anyway ...head lice. I never ever had them when I was at school, or knew anybody who did - in fact I even had to get my child-minder (a veteran of such problems) to catch one so as to show me what they looked like! Presented to me on a piece of sticky tape, but fortunately very dead. *G*

After about the fourth time, (because of course, my kids always gave them to me as well!) I'd got over the horror and shame, and could march into the chemist and ask for nit-lotion out loud... oooo... even writing about them makes me itch!
The joys of parenthood strike again! ;)

[przed.livejournal.com]

We were steeling ourselves to deal with nits in China, but they didn't materialize there. It's only a matter of time before Rosalind brings them home from either daycare or school, though. Everyone we know with kids has had to deal with them at some point, some more than once.

Not looking forward to it, though. (I hate bugs. Like, a lot.)