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This is NOT how I’d planned on spending this week of the summer, folks. My oldest was feeling sick by last Thursday night or Friday morning–fever shivers and her-bedroom’s-in-the-basement-where-the-AC-blasts-on-her-wet-hair shivers are difficult to distinguish from each other–and after a fever of more than 103 on Friday night, I took her in on Saturday to receive a diagnosis of the Coxsackievirus, which causes hand, foot, and mouth disease.
Ugh.
So. Her fever is gone and her throat pain has faded, but her rash is still visible. My youngest spiked a fever on Sunday night, throwing up once Monday morning to boot, and now my 5-year-old is in the throes of the same. (He’s thrown up twice thus far. He didn’t tell us about the first time until several hours afterwards–and it was in his bed, on the TOP BUNK.) My 8-year-old is still apparently well, but one has to wonder. Double ugh!
By the way, I am sorry about missing on Sunday night, but my nephew and his wife came up for dinner, and after they left I went to check on the bunnies before I exercised only to find that their hutch was wide open and they weren’t in it. Talk about an adrenaline rush, together with all the baggage of losing pets to tragedy when I was little; I’m attached to those bunnies myself, but my children adore them, and I was terrified on their behalf. I went out with a flashlight and managed to locate Marshmallow, at which point I enlisted my hubby, who managed to track down Peter.
Whew.
Anyway. The bunnies are safe, but we are (yet again!) not going anywhere today. Life has its ups and downs, right?
Stay well, folks. Signing off.