Fevers and Laundry

Vienna’s been having a high fever for three days now. This is when it’s tough being a mom.  I don’t mind that I’m sick myself and I stayed up with her all night (yes, all night, I got maybe 2 hours total sleep one night and maybe 3-4 the next) that’s not the hard part.  The hard part is seeing my typically energetic 1 year old, melt into a little blob who just wants to lay there and cry; little heart pounding a million beats per second and huffing and puffing to breathe.  Harder still is to watch her refuse meal after meal. Especially knowing she’s under weight to begin with. 

Thankfully she has been drinking her electrolyte & apple juice mix quite well.  Chugging it often actually.  But how good of a replacement can that be for food.  She’s been falling down a lot today, and a little shaky as well.  I finally called the doctor’s office today.  Since her fever was down this morning, but back up this afternoon, they told me to wait until tomorrow.  Apparently there’s a bad cold with sore throat going around, which is what I have. The sore throat is probably why she’s not eating. But here’s a mother’s question… how the stink do you KNOW!?!?!?  **big sigh** I’m sure time will tell, but if the fever gets back up to the 102 range again we’re going to urgent care, no matter what the cost!

Sam gave Vienna  a  nice bath to cool her down. She smells lovely, and she even looks much better than yesterday. I on the other hand STINK, not just stink, I stink and I’m covered from shoulder to knee in baby snot.  Hopefully a hot shower will loosen my sore joints and relieve some of the sinus headache…

I’m going to take a shower before I finish the laundry.  Since she’s not taking in solids, the stuff she is intaking is exiting, well, it should be solid, but it’s not… so all 4 sets of sheets now are dirty (I thought we had only three, but I found another sheet set in the back of the drawer… as well as a half matrices pad, so… that was soiled at her last nap…) **big sigh**  it’s days like today where a shaved head and tatoo’d makeup sounds fantastic (better yet, a beauty team that can do my face and hair and nails while I sleep… ahhhh to win the lotto).

I’m not really complaining.  I don’t mind the laundry, I don’t even really mind stinking so much… I just want to be able to make my baby comfortable and happy again.  But for now what I can do is de-stinkafy so that my daughter doesn’t have to be uncomfortable and feel nauseated by her mother at the same time!!! 

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