Yes that is right I went
on a girls only trip with five of my best friends who are also busy working
moms to Napa Valley, CA for four days and it was magical.
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| My beautiful crew of sanity keepers |
The week before I left 13 of 25 of the students in SH1's
kindergarten class came down with high fevers, congestion, muscle aches and a
good case of the grumps missing almost all of the last super fun party week of
school. SH1's symptoms lasted five days and capped off with an ear
infection at the tail end. I prayed earnestly that God would spare SH2
and SH3 of this same fate, but when they both woke up at 1:00 am a few days
later with fevers to 103F I went on-line and purchased stock in ibuprofen and
thieves oil.
It started out insidiously enough…
Fever to 102/103F
+
Look like hell
Ibuprofen administration
Then the math got a little more interesting…
Refusing to eat anything
+
Belly full of ibuprofen
Complaining of belly pain all day BUT fever is gone
Now we are into multiple digit addition…
Eating like birds
Leg pains causing
inconsolable tears and limping (myositis)
Fever
Missing SH1's Kindergarten Graduation
+ Adult medicine doctor for a mom
Assume all children are dying and girl’s trip (a year in the
making) will now be cancelled as my SH2 and SH3 will be hospitalized, but on the
bright side I will likely now be able to attend SH1's kinder graduation.
Now for the best equation of all…
+ Making peace with not being
able to go if I am not supposed to
GIRL’S TRIP 2014!
My husband shielded me from a lot of the dark details of those
four days. I was able to glean that he had to cancel all of
the brother-in-law (BIL) kid co-op shared play dates and mealtimes that they
had planned (my BIL was home with his and my sister's kids as she was on the
trip too).
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| My sister and I at the beautiful Schweiger winery (Note to self: I need to learn how to pose my legs a little better) |
My sick kids and husband were locked up in our house together
the entire.four.days.
I called one of my pediatrician besties (who had also just been on
GIRL'S TRIP 2014 with me) and she calmed me down, gave me a list of if this happens then you need to do
this and told me to give SH2
antibiotics for what is most likely Influenza B now turned bacterial pneumonia.
(We all had our flu vaccines, so I can only imagine how much worse it
would have been.) I did as instructed and was able to confirm the diagnosis
the next day with our regular pediatrician.
SH2 is on the mend and the fevers are gone, cough still sucks but I am surprisingly at peace about it. Why? Because of I have a fresh memory of moments like this...
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| Ohhhh so this is why we were shushed on the plane |
ridiculousness like this...
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| Beauty and laughter captured perfectly at Ledson winery |
and because I just got back from GIRL'S TRIP 2014 where I laughed
until my sides hurt, got shushed on an airplane when I was not traveling with
children, cried—at dinner twice, took advice, expanded my wine tasting
vocabulary (turns out I like a more European style Chardonnay in a neutral oak
barrel), commiserated, and sang pop songs at the top of my lungs in a Suburban
with five of my favorite ladies in the world.
Renewed
Restored
Ready for the year ahead
GIRL'S TRIP 2015 Chicago and I already can’t wait.
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