Luxuries Denied to Parents

Being sick at the same time. For those of you who are not parents, let me warn you (this never even crossed my mind before we had kids): SOMEONE STILL HAS TO FEED THE BABY! Someone still has to change her, give her her medicine, chase her around and stop her from committing involuntary suicide. Just because you have a fever or 100.5 and wish only to stay near enough to the bucket not to miss your target, and your husband is standing on pneumonia's doorstep does not mean she has magically learned how to tuck herself into bed with a kiss and a wave. Just saying. You have been warned.

Oh, and PS, can we be well please?! Here's the casualty list:

Father-in-law: Pneumonia (in the hospital for a week, out from work for over 3, plus various other more permanent ailments including but not limited to only one functioning lung)

Mother-in-law: Terrible asthma-irritating chest cold

Brother-in-law: Coughed so hard this week he cracked a rib

Husband: Pre-pneumonia hacking cough (plus the usually spinal injury pain)

Eliana: Ear infection and the stomach flu AT THE SAME TIME!

Me: Terrible head cold, THEN stomach flu

Pray for us,

Jillian

Mama has the flu, Baby has an ear ache.

The height of her double sickness. Temperature at time of photograph: 103.3