Week in review

Oy vey. What a week! I started feeling a little sore and dragged down on Sunday, but I thought maybe I had just taken too long of a walk on Saturday. Then it got a little worse on Monday, and by Tuesday afternoon I was running a fever and felt like I was dying. I think it was a combination of stress at work (a couple really tough clients) and stress at home (doing a lot to help Mike in his summer psychology class - the last prerequisite for the teaching program he wants to start next year).  But Tuesday was primary day, so my sense of civic responsibility prevailed and Rose and I voted anyway. (All the election judges were enamored with her!)

"I decided I'm only going to wear my grumpy face for pictures nowadays!"

I went to bed early Tuesday night, but I still felt even closer to death on Wednesday morning. Ugh. So despite that fact that I have next-to-no PTO left for the remainder of the year, I had to stay home. Basically all I did was sleep, and yet I was still exhausted by the time Mike and Rose came home around 4:30pm. Sigh. At least Mike's class was finally done so he could be on "Rose duty" for the rest of the night, other than when I fed her. (BTW, we switched to giving her only fresh - not frozen - milk this week, in the hopes that I'm producing some good antibodies against this illness and that she might be able to stay healthy even though I'm sick.) But I wasn't too sick that I couldn't snap a quick picture of her "dancing" with him. She's getting so strong when she stands!

"I like Beyonce! And 80's music!"

Thursday I went in to work. I planned to only take a half day, but I had so many meetings scheduled that I ended up working seven hours. So I think it's okay if I don't use PTO for that day, right? I cancelled three clients (my third Thursdays are incredibly long), but I still did a lot of work that day. I don't know - I have until the 31st to decide. Anyway, I worked a fair number of hours so was pretty exhausted again by last evening. And even though my work stress (tough clients) and home stress (Mike's class) had improved, a new stress entered my life today: there was a case of pertussis (whooping cough) at Rose's school. AAAAAAAHHHH!!!! This has been a huge fear of mine. She's too young to be fully vaccinated yet, but this is a potentially fatal illness for kids her age. (See: scary, scary, and more scary)  Mike took the lead on contacting Rose's pediatrician and she recommended that we give Rose a prophylactic dose of antibiotics, just to be safe. So tonight we started azithromycin. Sigh. I hate giving meds when they might not be necessary, but I also totally trust our pediatrician's judgment regarding this super serious disease.

I'm really hoping that bad stress comes in threes and now things will be on the upswing again! And on that note, it's nearly 8:30 which is way to late for this sickly momma to be awake. Sleep well, everyone.

"My Kitty Tales book sure is fun! Thanks, Jaimi!"