To follow briefly on my last post about being thankful for preschool. I am irritated as well, but it is a step towards a better and stronger immune system.....right?
Since Preschool started just 3 short weeks ago Grayson has had a cold, fever for two days, a lingering cough (we are talking lingering like a freakin scar you managed to get when you were in fifth grade lingering)! Never going away! On top of that he gets a stomach virus again and is vomitting all afternoon and evening:(
What does this mean......While undoubtedly building his immune system (after all once one falls you can only get up.) Preschool germs and invisible sick bugs have decided to implant themselves in my poor G-man one by one. They are lining up like soldiers just waiting to attack his immune system and it sucks big time!
I know he needs to go thru this so that he has a better immunity in the years of schooling to come. I mean they are giving elementary school students high school sized homework for crap sake! Missing 1/2 a day of school would mean spending a week to play catch up and keep up with the normal weekly work load.
I loathe this part of his preschool experience for a few reasons:
1) no parent gets excited when their child is sick (at least not that I have encountered as of yet)
2) as a Mother you have many rolls to play....when your child is sick, you play Mommy, Nurse, clean up crew, cook, healer, nurturer, etc.
3) when your child is sick it sucks! What is worse than your child being sick? Their siblings getting sick at the same time! What is worse than all your kiddies being sick? You catching whatever foreign ailment that has leached its way onto your little innocent babies!! Being sick when your kids are sick too....REALLY SUcks!
4) and the cherry on top? You won't sleep....but hey that really is nothing new. Only honestly you won't sleep a wink!
As we cuddled on our makeshift bed on the floor in front of our television last night, I struggled to keep my over exhausted body from shutting down completely. In the moments that G-man was snoring peacefully and I had finally been able to close my eyes, only mere moments (evil glances of sleep toyed with my eyelids) and get what felt as only mere seconds of sleep my eyelids rested in delight. Then the wake cycle and burning stinging eye watch had to begin.
I did not want him to feel lonely or afraid or more importantly to choke on his vomit in middle of night.
So, thank you Preschool for infecting my son with all of these lovely immune boosting bugs! In addition to "boosting" my son's immune system you have also been a contributing factor in my daughters as well. It is hard enough getting Grayson to "be mindful of his germ spreading when simply sneezing or coughing!" Now I have to run around wiping and cleaning like a mad women because all he wants to do when sick and asked not to get too close to his sister, is to be right in her face! Also, thanks for also a huge thanks for involving me in this tangled web. Every time G-Man gets sick I have to pretty much scrub my hands over a million times a day to wash the remains of his mucous from coughing, sneezing, or that lovely runny nose that he insist on blowing, licking, or wiping himself. I now have to double up on vitamin c like a crack addict and hope that I don't get whatever he has brought home this week. In all honesty my inner Ally McBeal is really screaming..... "what the F$&@!!!!!!!!!!"
But really thank you because my son will (better) have the best freakin immune system after this! Plus, he is so sweet and cuddly when sick.
