Letter To the Bugs

Dear Nasty Flu Bugs:
I ask that you LEAVE now! Leave our home!
We have had ENOUGH! We got our flu shots and you have still been inhabiting my home for almost 2 weeks now! And you got to me and my son!

I understand that this is what you do and all that but can you go do it somewhere else?
I am tired of feeling like crap. I am tired of not being able to talk or breathe properly. I am tired of blowing my nose.

Seriously, enough is enough!
Also could you maybe depart from the rest of my kids too? Please.
My kids aren't as strong as me and I think between all of us, we have already gone through dozens of airborne, antibacterial soap, and hand sanitizer – all of which you seem resistant too. And you have ruined Ethan's chance at perfect attendance!!!

Its too much for us, we are a busy family and need all our energy.
So please – let us part TODAY!!!!!!!!!
Thank you

Swine Whine

My mom seemed to rarely get sick, and if she did, we never knew it, she never let it get her down.

I remember being sick as a child. My mom would make me chicken noodle soup, give me medicine, tuck me in bed, take my temperature, feel my forehead, and let me rest with peace and quiet.

Well….I'm not a kid anymore!!!

Last week, my allergies started to act up…or so I thought.

I was coughing and had a runny nose. I went to the CVS minute clinic, to make sure that it wasn't the flu: my test came back negative. As the days went on, it got worse.

I was achey and felt like my head and ears were stuffed with cotton. I felt TERRIBLE!

To top it all off, I woke up yesterday with NO voice!!! I had to yell just to get a whisper out. Me not being able to talk is NOT a good thing. After much teasing from the kids and hubby quoting the Godfather, I decided to not let it ruin my day. By the way, I can still text Nikki if I need to talk.

However, lunches still had to be made, kids still had to be dressed, we had football games to get to and the house still needed to be cleaned. I was not going to let this bug get me down....I am MOM!!!

I began to lose my energy, the piles of tissues were growing, and I just didn't feel like myself. Just then, Ethan started running a fever, coughing, vomitting...you get the picture.

So, there we were, me and Ethan, in bed...sick!

I won't go into details about the discharges, aches, and other syptoms we experienced.

Long story short...Me and Ethan caught the swine!!!! Yes, we got the swine flu and it is kicking my butt. It is horrible!!!!

I thought mother's weren't supposed to get sick. What is going on????

90 Minute Clinic

Let me start off by saying that I am not feeling good today so, please forgive me for being harsh. I have been fighting some bug for a while now and I simply refuse to be sick. I eat healthy, exercise (kind of), take my vitamins, and wash my hands so much to the point that I have severely dry skin. So I can't get sick, right?
Anyway, when I am feeling sick, even the littlest things bother me. I don't run to the doctor at the slightest cough or headache so, just the simple fact that I found myself signing in at the CVS minute clinic, was a bother.
minute clinic.....yeah right! I was there for an hour and a half!
I sat beside a mother whose kids (middle school aged) were obviously home schooled and she was doing an assignment with them. There she was reading a story in baby talk. Aghhh, I hate that!!!! Hello. Lady. Your kids are NOT babies!!! My head started pounding. I tried to ignore her but, it was VERY hard.
I sat there tortured for half an hour, when another mother came in. She had four children. Four very misbehaved children. Don't get me wrong, my kids are not perfect by any stretch of the imagination. But my kids also do not take items off the shelves and throw them at each other, make me chase them through CVS, and try to run out the door into the parking lot. And NEVER would I reward that behavior, like she did, with CANDY. This mother let them each pick out candy (if they promised to behave). While she was at the register, at the other end of the store, I could hear them....whining, demanding and, screaming. But they all come back with a candy in each hand, which they were getting all over the floor. Come on, Seriously???? (my headache is worsening)
I thought real hard about leaving, there is no reason for me to sit here, tortured. I kept asking myself, what the heck I was doing there and how could I possibly be surrounded by all this chaos!
Just when I thought is was bad, my nose starts running and my head still pounding, I got up from my seat to get a tissue, when one of the little brats took my chair. The only chair left. Oh no, you didn't. I gave the mother the ugliest look I could and I think she could see the bitter sick
%@*! inside of me and asked her kid to give me my seat back. I know that sounds mean of me but, like I said, mean mommy appears when I am sick.
Now, I am only two people away from my turn, when another mother comes in with three kids. Three screaming kids! She told them they were there for a flu shot and the kids were scared and crying. Then she proceeds to tell them that if they don't stop crying, they were going to get 2 shots!!! Why do people do that?
Baby talk mom left, and I was staring to miss her, she wasn't so bad after all.
As if the waiting area wasn't bad enough.....
since I work in a hospital, we have to assume that I have been exposed to the flu. So I get tested. OMG, the swab for the test is long and skinny and I knew they had to swab the inside of my nose but I didn't know they swab all the way up. It felt like they were swabbing my eye through my nostril. Now I really start coughing, eyes are watery, and my nose starts flowing like a river. The test would take ten minutes, and I asked the nurses to please not send me back into the crazy waiting room. She laughed, agreed and let me stay in there with her. After ten minutes....good news, my flu test was NEGATIVE!
All that torture for nothing!