Wow, what a week for you! I’m so sorry. I also didn’t realize that 8 year olds got mono symptoms. I hope she feels better quickly, and that life gets less exhausting for you soon.
Last night my husband looked at me, exhausted, over dinner and said, “I just want one week that goes smoothly, with no one sick or emergencies.” We are in the trenches of the daycare/preschool constant illnesses, and it really is something new almost every week. Solidarity.
Thank you. I remember those days so well, when your kid is just CONSTANTLY sick in daycare. And this year, well, it's even worse. I am sending you strength too!!!!
So sorry! For some reason I had mono several times as a child and it is the worst. I hope she feels better soon and you get some rest and relaxation in!
We’ve been enduring an endless parade of sickness!! I had COVID at the beginning of March, then my daughter got the stomach flu which my spouse also got, then daughter with a fever/cough virus for a week which turned in to an ear infection that did NOT respond to antibiotics so 7 days in to her meds she spiked another fever so we did three days of shots of another antibiotic and now she’s finally better. I’m making it to the last two weeks of the semester of grad school hanging on by a thread! She missed more than half her daycare days the past 5 weeks and I am exhausted!
Also side note - I had mono in highschool and it was also originally misdiagnosed! My mono spot said I didn’t have it so I also got an antibiotic I didn’t need and it was awful and gave me acid reflux and burned my esophagus (on top of the wicked sore throat mono gives.) I was sidelined for about 6 weeks. My friend got mono a few months later and she was better in about 10 days. Hoping your daughter feels better quickly - seeing your kid exhausted and feeling bad is so hard. Sending hugs.
Oh my gosh you've been having a horrible few months! I hope things improve soon!! Also crazy about your mono misdiagnosis. I know the mono spot isn't all that accurate so I'm pretty grateful it came back positive over here — otherwise she'd still be on those antibiotics.
I absolutely love this post. Sometimes as mothers, we feel like we are the only ones feeling like this. It is wonderful that we have a community that understands our chaos! I had a similar thought about mono too as it is going around our community. I always associated with college and high school students. I hope you daughter feels better soon.
My 6yo broke both his radius and ulna on Tuesday. We spent 6 hours in the waiting room of the ER before they sedated him and attempted to set his arm. That failed and we were transferred at 3am to a second hospital with a peds department. A superstar orthopedist was able to set his arm the next morning (with a second sedation) and avoid surgery. Hooray! This has all happened while our 2yo has been sick with something that is impacting her asthma and hasn’t been able to go to school all week (m-th). She got antibiotics yesterday (turns out she also has an ear infection), so hoping she makes a quick turnaround. We are sooooo tired.
The conversation about euthanasia reminds me of the day my husband's grandmother died. She'd had an aneurysm rupture 48 hours earlier and once they family arrived they unplugged her, but that also happened to be the day our elderly cat came down with a mystery infection. I was at the emergency vet at 11pm, with the vet listing off tests they might do and looking at me to see when I would say no, it's too expensive. And I said "I am not teaching my child about death twice in one week" and threw down my credit card.
In parenting traumas this week, every day on the way home from afterschool, there's this big building with stone steps flanked by cast iron railings, and my kid hangs onto the railing and shimmies his body under it before continuing along the retaining wall. Until yesterday, when one of the railings pulled completely out of the wall, slamming him backward onto the stone step with the railing falling on his face. He's screaming, there's blood everywhere, I'm standing there for a few seconds too long staring numbly at the giant piece of metal I have just pulled off of him and wondering where to put it, and then I come to my senses and start hustling him back down the block to where, thank absolute heavens, my mother-in-law lives just maybe 150 feet from where this happened. Her neighbor is inviting me and and I'm panting "no, my mother-in-law is just there" as I claw my phone out of my purse and start screaming into it "come to the door NOW" and we got ice on his face and a towel as he was howling in absolute panic, just so terrified. But considering how much blood there was right at first, his nose stopped bleeding before too long, and his teeth don't seem to have taken any damage at all.
Obviously this morning when we got to the doctor -- the office we had to go to in the city because the two closest offices didn't have any appointments -- the person who scheduled it had somehow put us way out in the suburbs despite our long conversation about which office the appointment would be at. But the angel receptionist got us right in and, after a normal neurological exam, we were able to get him to school in time for the performance of a big project they've been working on that he was extremely anxious not to miss, and his teacher just messaged me that he seemed to feel fine through that at least.
Also we are supposed to get on a plane tonight for vacation, and on Wednesday night he was exposed to a stomach bug when one of his friends threw up all over our living room rug, like it's an area rug that we ended up having to flip over and use the rug cleaner on the bottom as well as the top. So we are...39 hours post-exposure and keeping our fingers crossed on that, too.
Oh Laura! This is way too much for one family in one week! I'm so relieved your son's nose/face is okay (but holy cow scary), and I am crossing my fingers about the stomach bug. I really hope you get to go on your trip.
Not my child up at 1:30 throwing up the day I have funeral visitation to go to for my aunt and the day before I have two readings at a funeral. No big deal.
I’m sorry to add to the generator, but talk to your pediatrician about the link between Epston Barr and MS. There is new research. I believe there are steps to help reduce risk like ensuring proper vitamin D levels.
Wow, what a week for you! I’m so sorry. I also didn’t realize that 8 year olds got mono symptoms. I hope she feels better quickly, and that life gets less exhausting for you soon.
Last night my husband looked at me, exhausted, over dinner and said, “I just want one week that goes smoothly, with no one sick or emergencies.” We are in the trenches of the daycare/preschool constant illnesses, and it really is something new almost every week. Solidarity.
Thank you. I remember those days so well, when your kid is just CONSTANTLY sick in daycare. And this year, well, it's even worse. I am sending you strength too!!!!
So sorry! For some reason I had mono several times as a child and it is the worst. I hope she feels better soon and you get some rest and relaxation in!
We’ve been enduring an endless parade of sickness!! I had COVID at the beginning of March, then my daughter got the stomach flu which my spouse also got, then daughter with a fever/cough virus for a week which turned in to an ear infection that did NOT respond to antibiotics so 7 days in to her meds she spiked another fever so we did three days of shots of another antibiotic and now she’s finally better. I’m making it to the last two weeks of the semester of grad school hanging on by a thread! She missed more than half her daycare days the past 5 weeks and I am exhausted!
Also side note - I had mono in highschool and it was also originally misdiagnosed! My mono spot said I didn’t have it so I also got an antibiotic I didn’t need and it was awful and gave me acid reflux and burned my esophagus (on top of the wicked sore throat mono gives.) I was sidelined for about 6 weeks. My friend got mono a few months later and she was better in about 10 days. Hoping your daughter feels better quickly - seeing your kid exhausted and feeling bad is so hard. Sending hugs.
Oh my gosh you've been having a horrible few months! I hope things improve soon!! Also crazy about your mono misdiagnosis. I know the mono spot isn't all that accurate so I'm pretty grateful it came back positive over here — otherwise she'd still be on those antibiotics.
I absolutely love this post. Sometimes as mothers, we feel like we are the only ones feeling like this. It is wonderful that we have a community that understands our chaos! I had a similar thought about mono too as it is going around our community. I always associated with college and high school students. I hope you daughter feels better soon.
This kitchen is nothing. It's so funny when people post their "mess" and it's really on the clean end of the mess spectrum.
From one messy trench to another: you are doing a great freaking job and I see how hard you’re trying.
omg Melinda NO NO NO.
My 6yo broke both his radius and ulna on Tuesday. We spent 6 hours in the waiting room of the ER before they sedated him and attempted to set his arm. That failed and we were transferred at 3am to a second hospital with a peds department. A superstar orthopedist was able to set his arm the next morning (with a second sedation) and avoid surgery. Hooray! This has all happened while our 2yo has been sick with something that is impacting her asthma and hasn’t been able to go to school all week (m-th). She got antibiotics yesterday (turns out she also has an ear infection), so hoping she makes a quick turnaround. We are sooooo tired.
OMGGGGGG! This sounds like a total nightmare and so scary. I am so sorry. I hope that you all can get some rest now.
The conversation about euthanasia reminds me of the day my husband's grandmother died. She'd had an aneurysm rupture 48 hours earlier and once they family arrived they unplugged her, but that also happened to be the day our elderly cat came down with a mystery infection. I was at the emergency vet at 11pm, with the vet listing off tests they might do and looking at me to see when I would say no, it's too expensive. And I said "I am not teaching my child about death twice in one week" and threw down my credit card.
In parenting traumas this week, every day on the way home from afterschool, there's this big building with stone steps flanked by cast iron railings, and my kid hangs onto the railing and shimmies his body under it before continuing along the retaining wall. Until yesterday, when one of the railings pulled completely out of the wall, slamming him backward onto the stone step with the railing falling on his face. He's screaming, there's blood everywhere, I'm standing there for a few seconds too long staring numbly at the giant piece of metal I have just pulled off of him and wondering where to put it, and then I come to my senses and start hustling him back down the block to where, thank absolute heavens, my mother-in-law lives just maybe 150 feet from where this happened. Her neighbor is inviting me and and I'm panting "no, my mother-in-law is just there" as I claw my phone out of my purse and start screaming into it "come to the door NOW" and we got ice on his face and a towel as he was howling in absolute panic, just so terrified. But considering how much blood there was right at first, his nose stopped bleeding before too long, and his teeth don't seem to have taken any damage at all.
Obviously this morning when we got to the doctor -- the office we had to go to in the city because the two closest offices didn't have any appointments -- the person who scheduled it had somehow put us way out in the suburbs despite our long conversation about which office the appointment would be at. But the angel receptionist got us right in and, after a normal neurological exam, we were able to get him to school in time for the performance of a big project they've been working on that he was extremely anxious not to miss, and his teacher just messaged me that he seemed to feel fine through that at least.
Also we are supposed to get on a plane tonight for vacation, and on Wednesday night he was exposed to a stomach bug when one of his friends threw up all over our living room rug, like it's an area rug that we ended up having to flip over and use the rug cleaner on the bottom as well as the top. So we are...39 hours post-exposure and keeping our fingers crossed on that, too.
Oh, Laura. Sending you love and light. That is a LOT. I hope nobody gets the illness and you can have a good vacation.
Oh Laura! This is way too much for one family in one week! I'm so relieved your son's nose/face is okay (but holy cow scary), and I am crossing my fingers about the stomach bug. I really hope you get to go on your trip.
At least those bananas aren't over-ripe and begging to become banana bread!
hahahaha you're the second person to comment on the bananas!!!!
(not here; a friend texted me and joked about how I clearly needed to make banana bread too)
Not my child up at 1:30 throwing up the day I have funeral visitation to go to for my aunt and the day before I have two readings at a funeral. No big deal.
I’m sorry to add to the generator, but talk to your pediatrician about the link between Epston Barr and MS. There is new research. I believe there are steps to help reduce risk like ensuring proper vitamin D levels.
I think the link exists in adulthood, but that kids who get exposed to EBV are much less at risk. This may be our silver lining!