Sick!

 The illness started Saturday night.

By Sunday morning, a couple of kids were down.

By Monday afternoon, all 8 of my kids were lethargic and feverish.

By Thursday morning, our daycare kidlets had it, too, so that made 10.

We never saw a doctor or took a test, so it could be any of a number of viruses.

But we did self-quarantine.

Our whole week looked like this:

Ladybug read aloud for over two hours on Monday morning.  Then she developed symptoms later on.

One day was completely devoted to Star Wars cartoons.  Another couple of days included documentaries.  One day we watched The Secret of NIMH and compared it to Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH.

When Mister Man felt a bit better, he read aloud to the sickest ones.

Brother doesn't admit to feeling sick.  But he was running a 102.5° fever while he did this math lesson.

Nature Angel did so much "for fun" reading.  This book reduced her to tears as she read it and then again as she told the story to Little Princess.




Then kids started to feel better, so we turned off the TV and got out some quiet play activities.



Nature Angel has almost 120 crocheted hexagons made from scrap yarn leftover from other projects.  One afternoon she felt well enough to start laying them out.

But then she was exhausted and had to go back to bed for a couple of days.


Little Princess was hit hardest with a runny nose and congestion.

Baymax coughed so hard he threw up, and then he stayed so nauseated that he was dehydrated from the combination of refusing all liquids (even popsicles), vomiting, running a fever, and having a runny nose.  (That was a nerve-wracking situation.)

With no babies and a passel of kids who were so lethargic that they just lay around for days on end, I didn't have to get anyone to do chores, do school, or make much in the way of meals.  As long as I could keep them comfortable with chicken soup, popsicles, mugs of tea, and ibuprofen, I was kind of on vacation from my usual busy days.

Honestly, I rested a lot.

Oh!  Mister Man did not break his foot last week.  It was a severe sprain (In his toes?  In the top of his foot?), and he was sent home in a "hard shoe" that protected him from having pain as he walked.


He's doing quite well.

Which is more than I can say for how the current week is going . . . but that's for another post.

Comments

  1. JenniferMarch 12, 2024 at 4:07 PM

    I always try to rest hard when everyone is sick! I hope you all get well soon.

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  2. grtlyblesdApril 5, 2024 at 11:45 AM

    Ugh! Sickness is no fun. :( I got sick (coughing, exhausted) in February, and it lingered for weeks. Here's hoping you've all bounced back by now.

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