The Plague

I don't even know how to describe the past week. Lilly rarely gets sick, she occasionally has the sniffles like any other kid, but never more than just a little cold. Well, this past week she made up for it. In five days we had two doctor visits, one chest X-ray, two prescriptions and several calls to the nurses desk. Lilly has taken innumerable doses of Tylenol and not an ounce of food...only water or diluted juice. We've gone through five sets of sheets, thrown out two pillows and learned some valuable lessons. One, if you cover your mouth when you cough and coughing makes you throw up, you will throw up on your own face. This is very traumatic to a two year old in the middle of the night. Two, if said two year old wants to watch a movie in your bed and still has her cough you shouldn't put her on your side of the bed. This is how we lost a set of sheets and one of the pillows. Three, if you are potty training that two year old while she has a virus you should be prepared to do quite a bit more laundry than usual.

We did our best to keep Lilly away from Jack (who has miraculously remained healthy).

Poor girl, all she wanted to do was watch movies, cuddle, or sleep. She even put herself to bed a few times.

Here's another shot of Jack avoiding Lilly. The quilt he is on was made for him by my grandma. Over the years each of her kids, grand kids and now great grandchildren have been lucky enough to have a quilt hand made for them by Grandma. A panel with his name, her name and his birth date is stitched onto the back. I have been using this blanket as Jack's safety zone, free from his sister and her germs. Jack actually seems to have enjoyed Lilly being sick. He's not a mean spiteful baby or anything, but I think he likes the extra one on one attention he's gotten since she's been sleeping over five hours a day.

Finally feeling better. We've had a couple false alarms: Lilly gets up, seems better, does a little playing, thinks about eating and then POW sick again. But, today she was playful (and a little mischievous) and even hungry with very little coughing. I think she's really on the mend this time.