Today I stayed home with my 12 year old daughter. She has been fighting a stomach virus for a week now. She has acid reflux disease, which causes her to feel nauseated in the mornings. So on the first day of her flu symptoms I sent her to school. That was one week ago today. I went on to work and within 20 minutes I received a phone call from her school nurse. She vomited at school. So I had to make arrangements at work for the rest of the day and then picked her up. She was sick all day long and was having some dizziness. I kept her home of Friday, because she was not able to keep any thing down the day before. She stayed home all weekend, her stomach felt better, but the dizziness continued. Monday I sent her to school and went back to work. I called her doctor and made an appointment for her on Tuesday at 9:30. The dizziness was caused by fluids in her ears and sinuses. She has severe allergies. The doctor told her to double up on her nasal spray and gave her some anti dizzy meds. When the doctor was poking at her she found that her ribs were very sensitive. So she sent us to the hospital for rib x-rays. By the time we left the hospital Katie was missing her lunch quarter hour, so I had to take her to lunch. After eating at KFC I took her back to school and she finished out her day.
The next morning, yesterday, she woke up vomiting again. I decided to let her stay home and I went on to work. I called my mother-in-law who lives next door (did you ever see "Everyone Loves Raymond?) and had her check on her. My mother-in-law is in her 70's and babysits my two year old nephew in the mornings. I can't send my kids over there when they're sick, because you could only imagine what the outcome would be. I called Katie mid- morning and she said she was miserable. So I called the doctor back, which she instructed me to do if her conditioned worsened. The nurse told me nothing different than I expected. I later called Katie and she said she was very uncomfortable. She said Grandma came over to give her some crackers and helped her open up a new bottle of Gatorade. I have several boxes of crackers in the house, but we could always use more, right?
After work I stopped at her school to get her homework and came home. Her condition continued the same. Last night I slept in the recliner while she slept on the couch. I will explain our living conditions in later stories. I called off work for today and here I am. I emailed her teachers and explained that she was unable to complete her assignments. The end of the quarter is tomorrow, so we are in a crunch. Most of them replied and said they would apply the work to next quarter. We do need to turn in one quiz by tomorrow. I will call the school soon to see if there are any assignments to pick up today. I'm thinking there won't be any. She is doing a little better today. She hasn't vomited, but she is still weak. I made some soup for her for lunch. She ate a little, we'll try some more again soon.
OK, enough already about her, this blog is suppose to be about me, right. I thought I'd explain the grass head photo above. Well that pertains to my children and not me also. My kids received them for Christmas from my sister-in-law. My husband has four sisters. They love him dearly, but hate me. This sister is the youngest and smartest. She runs the whole entire family. She and her husband and two year old son live around the corner from us. (hint) Today Katie and I took pictures of the grass heads. We are going to have to put them to rest because they are starting to mold. Katie is extremely allergic to mold, and she's also allergic to grass.
So today, this is my life.
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