Lots of mild illness the last couple of weeks. Oscar (6) started it twelve days ago: he threw up twice in the middle of the night, Thursday night, right after Grandma and Grandpa showed up. Then Mary Jane (6 mo) started getting really cranky on Monday. She spiked a little fever that night. Wednesday morning Grandma got sick and spent the whole day either in bed or in the bathroom. The more recent Thursday at Hannah's, Milo (3) had some intestinal troubles. That night MJ spiked a higher fever, shivering so that I put her between us for warmth. Saturday she spiked a fever again and started to throw up. Yesterday morning Oscar threw up again.
And MJ is still intermittently throwing up and being feverish. Plus she doesn't want to be put down and keeps making these pitiful little burbles and moaning, "owoooooo...." Intermittently she is cheerful and non-feverish, and isn't dehydrated, but I made an appointment to see the pediatrician anyway. The nurse pointed out that she could have a UTI, which is a possibility I'd entirely forgotten about, focusing as I was on the stomach bug and the teething.
At least going to the doctor's will get me out of the house. I am feeling a bit stir-crazy. I had to skip going to music class and to Melissa's yesterday. Melissa's family is already exposed for sure to whatever bug my boys had, but it's so terribly cold outside that I didn't want to take Oscar and MJ anywhere. And tonight I'll stay home again with those two while Mark takes Milo (who's been better for several days) to his swimming lesson.
What I really want to do is go out and buy a gallon of paint and, oh, I don't know, an armchair or something.
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