All this winter, I’ve watched my students be out of school for a week or more and come back looking like death warmed over. Some years everyone’s coughing all winter, some years everyone’s blowing their noses for months, but this year seems to be all about the really, really, bad bout of something.
I have thanked the forces that be that my family was making it through the winter relatively unscathed. No one had even missed a day of school for being sick yet! (Only my husband had gotten anything that required he stay home.) Then, this weekend, it finally hit us.
My son was fine Sunday morning. In fact, I was planning a biking riding get together at the local park when he suddenly said he didn’t feel that great. An hour later he was in bed with a fever.
That fever hit 103.5 and stayed around there for THREE DAYS. He had a cough and stuffy nose right away. He didn’t start throwing up until 24 hours into it.
I already had a cough when he got sick, but it got so much worse on Sunday evening and by Monday I felt awful. I never had a fever or threw up, but I still have an awful cough. I haven’t been able to take time off of work yet, we’re short subs and I’m about to lose my 7th graders for a week (before a week off after President’s Day – so for two weeks), so I need to be at school right now. Luckily today I almost felt normal.
My husband took care of our son for Monday and Tuesday and he was amazing. I’m very lucky he can take time off so much more easily than I, and that he’s so good at comforting our kids when they are sick. My son has been calling out for his dad every night this week when he wakes up (though he doesn’t mind if I go in to help him).
So far no one else in the family has whatever horrible bug my son got. My husband isn’t feeling great today, and is very nervous he got it, but I’m hoping he just has my cough and not the awful that my son had. But even with only my son sick, and my husband able to stay home to take care of him, this week we’ve all been in survival mode. Every day I’m literally counting the hours until I can go to bed.
I hope by this weekend we’re all well again. In the meantime…
Wash your hands everyone. Wash. Your. Hands. Whatever is going around this year is ROUGH.
Ugh, sorry, and hope it ends soon! SO MANY people I know have/had the flu in the past few weeks and it seems to be BRUTAL, I’m just bracing myself, knowing its likely coming our way at some point. Counting down til bedtime is not a foreign concept to me, for many reasons, so I feel ya.
Ugh. Yeah, flu has been widespread and nasty this year where we live, too. One of my sons had influenza B a few weeks ago, despite receiving a flu shot in early October. Shockingly, no one else in our household caught it! Sure dodged a bullet there.