I'm coming to the conclusion that being a single parent sucks! Don't get me wrong, I LOVE my kids, I would change my life except I would love to have a second person to actually help with them.
Between preparing for surgery,working 3 jobs, using 2 daycare/daycamps, dentist appointments, soccer tournaments, getting 2 kids prepared to start new schools, allergies and all the other things I do in a day (cook,clean, laundry etc) IM DONE
I get a call Friday from Nathan's daycare that he's come down with a fever....perfect!
I pick him up he's running a mild fever of 102. Gave him some meds, had an early night and by Saturday he was fine (or so I thought). Saturday we had the soccer tournament (2 kids, 4 games in 5 hours, plus work afterwords).
Sunday, I was off to get school supplies with 2 kiddos and a stop at Costco (keep in mind I'm not allowed to eat just drink my shakes). We stop at the mall, go into the 1st store and Nathan is running wild. He's normally in a cart but of course mall don't offer them. So I was able to get him a couple pieces of clothes and we moved on to shoes (I hate shoe shopping!). Dalton was having none of this game, he apparently wasn't feeling well.
After 45 mins in the store we finally found a pair that he liked.
Then to Costco...oh how I looth this store. I went for cheese strings....ended up spending over $230.
New backpacks and lunch bags for all 3 boys, and figured seeing as surgery was coming now would be the time to stock up on snacks.
Because I had to work and mom didn't want to cook after being out all day they all had Taco Bell for dinner...I had a shake and 2 pcs of celery (which took up 1 of 2 cups of "food" I can eat per day).
Oh did I mention that while we were shopping I happen to notice Nathan was growing spot....everywhere???
First thought was a reaction, however they weren't in the normal areas. Then I notice that both his hands, arms and belly and legs are COVERED????
Then comes the itching, and more itching. Throw in a dose of whining "momma in so itchy, help scratch me"
You can imagine the looks we got as we went threw the store.
Nothing else was wrong....just spots.
I text a friend asking....chicken pox or HFMD( hand foot mouth)??? We both thought HFMD. Then the spots blistered and started to ooze. Yep all while we were still in the store.
They just kept coming, bum, groined, legs, feet, face, ears, everywhere but his back??? I was convience it was the poxes
Monday the boys all had dentist appintments, because I'm the annoying mom who pick 8:30am Mondays to take my kids to the dentist I couldn't give tem a heads up. So we go I confine Nathan to one spot...explained to them what was happing and we all agreed because we didn't know which it was we would reschulde him.
After the dentist I call the GP....have I mentioned how much I LOVE my GP! Yep you guessed it, drop the older boys off to camp and right into the doctor we go!
Good news.....it's a sever case of HFMD!!!! He was able to go back to daycare today I was able to actual work both jobs today and all would be right in the world....WRONG
Dalton gets up at 10pm crying, he has a headache, his throat hurts and a mild fever ...perfect!
We figure out it's a sinus infection (all symptoms lead to yet another one). Now I will admit I have a well stock of medication in my home (an entire cupboard just for meds) however because we are generally healthy MOST of these meds had expired....like late last year/early this year. See my kids don't get sick durnin regular business hours....it's alway in the middle of the night and it's alway bad. The closest 24 hr pharmacy is a 35min drive away 😱
I gave him a Tylenol, rinsed his nose and ice pack and sent him back to bed. This morning he was good (so he said), I convinced him to take another Tylenol and said I would stop after work and get sinus meds. Well I no soon get to work and camp calls. I explained he had meds this morning and said if his headache wasn't gone in 30 mins I call me back and I would come get him.
Please remember this is the child who just learned that if he makes himself sick, cries and puts in a big enough show people will call me and I HAVE to pick him up. Thankfully camp agreed to give it 30 mins and we could go from there.
I heard nothing else from them, I did call them about an hour later and everything seemed good!!!! (Thank you!)
Tonight I pick everyone up, as I'm gettin supper I call for Dalton 3 times...no answer...I go down the hall(his new thing is to not answer when I call)and call again...he's not in his room, not in the bathroom????
I go to check out side and find him curled up on the coach sleeping (I should have taken a picture but never thought).
Needless to say between 2 sick kids, lack of food, extra stress of working 2 jobs everyday this week....I haven't broke!
I still haven't eaten anything, I refuse to give in to the stress, I know somene is challenging me to see if I'm truly ready for this surgery and I AM....so piss off!!!!
Hope everyone is enjoying the last week if summer...it's finally warm here again!
T-6 days till 2 kiddos start school and T-13 days till my baby goes to his first day of JK 😩
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