A Plague on Your House!

March has been absolutely horrendous around here. Forget about lambs and lions, the whole month was a fucking bear. Between my two daughters and myself, we visited the doctor eight times. EIGHT. First for my toddler who had a lingering fever. That turned out to be a nasty upper respiratory virus. But the following week my 5 year old was in for what turned out to be strep throat. Shortly after that the toddler was back in for an injured foot that she refused to walk on. That also turned out to be nothing much, probably a bruise, although as the doctor said, "We really don't know how many kids go around with broken bones that go undiagnosed." According to him, it's hard to determine what hurts, how severe it is, and they heal really darn fast. That ended her visits for the month (other than to tag along to all her sister's appointments) but my poor 5 year old was in right after finishing up her antibiotics for strep because her persistent cough that was keeping her up, then again about a week later for a fever that wouldn't leave for which she got another round of antibiotics and then two more subsequent visits to recheck her ears and lungs. I finished out the month with a trip to urgent care on Saturday morning because I was running a fever, had a nasty cough, and basically felt like death. Now her antibiotics end tomorrow and mine end next week but we have one more recheck on Thursday but the school nurse called today to say that she was complaining of her ears hurting and when the nurse checked them they looked red so I should mention that at her recheck but I also noticed that her nose has been running more the past day or so and her cough is still present and let's not forget that she's still taking fucking antibiotics!

I honestly have no idea what is going on in this house. I expect a fair amount of illness during cold and flu season because the elementary school and daycare are giant germ factories (inhabited by little germ factories) but, be it the Ides of March or a plague, I don't need all this Shakespearean drama up in here. This is seems like a saga to be continued and I won't be surprised if an ear, nose, and throat doctor is in our future but here's to hoping that Spring comes bursting in and washes away every last bit of illness.