Let's see - it started with Mimi's fever one week ago Friday. She had a fever for four out of the next five days, and developed a renching cough as well. On Wednesday, Luca developed a fever and was able to tell me that it was accompanied by a hellacious headache. Poor Mimi of little words never let me in on that... Then, I felt it coming Wednesday night. I spent most of Thursday in bed, except one trip to my new healer of all things, Jan the acupunturist. Unfortunately her strange method of reducing fever by scraping my back with the lid of a baby food jar did not cure my fever. It was nice to nap in her quiet office though. On Friday morning, my mom and Bill bid me farewell for the rest of the weekend.
Yes, I was with the kids, essentially quarantined since no one wanted this heinous sickness. A friend passed food through the door, and my babysitter took the kids to the park...but it was mostly me with a 102 fever and back-wrenching cough/headache. I don't remember EVER feeling this sick, but then again most sick people go to bed. It is really something else to be responsible for small children when you are sick.
Some great things did happen though...
I was actually amazed at how well the weekend went. I knew that I couldn't really get anything done, so I just played and played and watched lots of movies and read a lot. Thank the universe because Bill came home from his mountain trip.......sick.
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