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Thursday, December 9, 2010

Recovering

Good grief.

We got back home last Tuesday after 37 hours of travel and promptly caught The Croup.  All of us.  Including my mom, who is very sad that she lives with us right now. 

It's like we visited the 1800s and brought back an extinct medical souvenir.*  Except that our Dr. told us The Croup has been making a big comeback the last coupla years.  Who knew! 

I might stop joking about how The Plague is going to resurface, just in case. I don't want to be the asshole who everyone hates because I thought The Plague was all hilarious.   

The Croup isn't all that bad.  For kids.  Kids who get the The Croup sound like barking baby seals.  It's darling!  Well, it's darling AFTER you've been reassured by your pediatrician that you're child IS getting enough oxygen.  And kids can still run and play and eat while they have The Croup.  BONUS, it's in slow-mo.

Adults who get The Croup, on the other hand, feel like they are about to die and can't climb out of bed, even when they can smell bacon wafting up from the kitchen.  EVEN when said bacon is hand delivered an inch from their nose.  We lay in bed like Gulliver, tied down by the little folks of Lilliput. 

We are all in recovery now.  Though Gabi was sent home today, her first day back at school, with a fever.  And my Croup has turned into strep throat.  And Mason's Croup has turned into pneumonia.  Our house is swimming in steroids and antibiotics (and probiotics, for after). 

I think by tomorrow I'll be well enough to clean the house and start putting up decorations!  And to make it worth the mere two weeks they'll be up until Christmas, they'll be staying up through January as well.  Though to be honest, decorations always stay up through January.  It's just this year I don't have to admit it's because I'm lazy.

Oh, and if none of this makes sense, it's because I'm effed up on a myriad of meds.  Codeine is my friend.

*I totally stole that from my friend Megan.

19 comments:

  1. Ha! At least you're feeling well enough and coherent enough to do this post. You weren't terribly with it when I last talked to you ;)

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  2. The Croup may not be funny, but you're a scream! I sure hope you're ALL feeling better soon!

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  3. Oh why oh why is our reward for the hard work of 37 hours of travel with little ones always a week of illness? Doesn't seem fair, does it. Love your MIL stories. She would get on great with my Spanish version.

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  4. Oh my goodness!!!!! That's HORRIBLE! But i love love love your Gulliver reference, LOL and the 1800's extinct medical souvenir...HA! I bet it sounds funny when you laugh too.

    Get better fast!

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  5. oh no! i hope you are feeling better soon. that sounds horrible. we have had a round of nasty colds here, and my hubby's turned into a sinus infection. yuck for the winter sicknesses!

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  6. yuck!!! hope you all feel better soon!!

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  7. Ohhhhh I am so sorry. That is no fun whatsoever. Definitely get the probiotics in you (you can do them with antibiotics just not w/in 2 weeks of the antibiotics). Dose up on the Vitamin D and elderberry, too. They are soooo my friends! Fingers crossed for you.

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  8. Oh no!! I hope you all feel better soon:-)

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  9. Not such a good welcoming home present. Hope you all feel better soon.
    I leave my decorations up part of January too. :)

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  10. Oh boy--I hope you're feeling better soon. My kids get croup pretty often, but I didn't know adults could get it--or that it made them so sick! I'll have to start wearing a mask when my kids catch it!!
    Get well soon!

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  11. Not the best way to end a great vacation.
    I hope you all are 100% soon and enjoying some bacon!

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  12. Oh honey...how well I remember the days when our kids used to have croup. Lorelai had a double whammy once with a stomach virus to boot. She went back to her first grade teacher and told her she'd had "the croup and the creep."

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  13. THAT SUCKS. I can't even imagine coming home from awesome visit to brazil to not-so-awesome visit from the croup fairy.

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  14. Oh, I'm so sorry about all of that! Recovering from a trip is hard enough without devastating plagues! I hope you all make a full recovery in great speed.

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  15. Sorry, Friend. Being that you haven't posted since this I'm hoping that you *are* feeling a little better!

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  16. Oh how I feel your pain! My middle child gets croup every time she gets a cold! I have become a pro at dealing with it. Ugh! I am so very very sorry! Get better soon, and good luck with those christmas decorations!

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  17. Oh Wow! I hope you all feel better soon. I am getting sick just by reading about it! haha :)

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  18. Oh that just sucks!! I had strep last month and I thought I was going to die. I can't imagine croup to strep. Ouch!

    Well, you made it home. There's always that.

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