We have been pretty lucky, knock on wood, in regard to how often we have sickness in this house. The last time I remember the kids being sick where they missed school and either had fevers or were throwing up was in October, 2009 when we were in Pennsylvania. There might have been a fluke evening where someone didn't feel great but in the columns of colds, flu, and fevers there have been very little.
I have this weird thing. Every once in awhile I feel like I am on the verge of getting sick. I may feel a thickness in my throat or the beginnings of a head or chest cold or simply a feeling of unwell. Sometimes I may even run a very low grade fever. And then it all passes as quickly as it arrived. Other than my Thyroid meds the only thing I take often is Advil. In fact, all my cold medicine I threw out before we moved because they expire before we use them up.
Saturday was one of those minor unwell days for me. It typically doesn't amount to anything and this didn't either but I felt like I was running a fever but I was not registering one. And then Josh says, "mom, you are always sick."
Huh? Come again?
I told him that I am hardly ever sick. I did have a low running fever for over a week in Pennsylvania and I remember getting very ill when we first moved to Idaho in September, 2004. Anything before that he wasn't old enough to remember.
Kinda made me sad because here I think how great our household is that we are so seldom sick and in my son's eyes I am ALWAYS sick?! Do I ACT sick all the time? Does he mistake my overwhelmed-and-emotionally-and-physically-exhaustion as being sick and therefore am I doing a poor job as a mother that THAT is his impression of me?
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