I'm sitting here waiting for a second pot of coffee to brew because I'm exhausted. Like Living with a Newborn exhausted.
Tide is sick. Sicker than I've seen him since he was a baby. I don't know what he has. The plague or something. He's been up every 3 hours for almost a week, coughing his internal organs out. He's downed two ENTIRE bottles of cough medicine. I'm waiting for his liver to give up.
I took him to the doctor today because although he's not getting worse, he's not getting better and he looks... well, horrible.
So we saw a new doctor in the practice, who I have to say, is DISTRACTINGLY HANDSOME and has an enchanting foreign accent.
But however handsome he may be, he handed us a note saying Tide could return to school tomorrow.
HUH?
I said, "Tomorrow? Really? He can't even SIT UP he's so weak and dizzy."
So he said to give him lots of fluids and of course we could wait another day if I felt it was necessary.
Uh, yeah. I think I'll wait until he can stand up unassisted to send him back to school, thankyouverymuch.
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Did they do some blood work...maybe he has mono? It seems strange in that he doesn't have any other cold/flu symptoms, right?
Sorry to hear that your US docs are as clueless as our British ones. My friend's 20mo old daughter was told she had 'a mild' virus.... 24hrs later was in hospital with pneumonia! Sucks it to say but MOM KNOWS BEST. Hope he is better soon.
I'm so sorry :( Hope Tide gets better soonest.
Mental note: ask for the unattractive doctor.
So sorry your guy is so sick. It's hard to watch them feel that way. Hope he's better soon. And that you get to take a nap.
Did you flirt with the doctor ? I feel like you've written about doing that before ?
I feel like I've heard from so many families in our area about viruses that just won't go away. As in, for 3-5 week periods, somebody is always sick.
Hope it turns around soon.
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Go ahead. I can take it.