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Goofyernmost

Goofyernmost

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I know this is sort of going to sound awful, but when my oldest was a baby she had (still does) have a plethora of allergies. At least once a month she would have a 104 temperature and just turn lethargic. Ear infections, throat infections, both. I can't tell you how many times we had to sponge her off to get her temperature down. Anyway, On holidays like Halloween and new years eve when we would get invited to someone's house for a party, I used to hope that if she was going to be sick make it those days. She was a good baby (except for the every evening of colic where she would cry for two hours straight) and cooperated preventing me from having to go out on those occasions.

Disclaimer: I know I just sounded awful and I have no excuse for it, but I just used to feel, if you are going to get sick, now is the time. It's not that I wanted her to be sick, she just always was. As a side note, the Doctors just kept saying that she would grow out of it eventually. She didn't! Then one Saturday morning when she was about 5 years old, she stumbled out of her room, after being sick for a couple of days, fever and vomiting, looking awful laid back on the couch and rolled her eyes up so only the whites were showing. We took her to the ER and they figured out that she was dehydrated and tried to feed her electrolytes which just came back up. This was where having a wife that was an RN did not pay off. She was calm and great with strangers, but when it came to our kids she would be the first to panic. She spent a career seeing the worst of things and that is where here mind would go, but since the doctors all knew her they sent us home with electrolytes and the following instructions... Bring her back if she gets worse. What the hell was worse, no heart beat or what? We fed her electrolytes by a quarter t-spoon at a time and finally it took, but talk about a scary time.

I'm sorry, it's just that sometimes we get on topics and memories start flowing back and I feel the need to share them. You guys can tell me to shut up any time you want.
 
JenniferS

JenniferS

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Goofyernmost said:
I know this is sort of going to sound awful, but when my oldest was a baby she had (still does) have a plethora of allergies. At least once a month she would have a 104 temperature and just turn lethargic. Ear infections, throat infections, both. I can't tell you how many times we had to sponge her off to get her temperature down. Anyway, On holidays like Halloween and new years eve when we would get invited to someone's house for a party, I used to hope that if she was going to be sick make it those days. She was a good baby (except for the every evening of colic where she would cry for two hours straight) and cooperated preventing me from having to go out on those occasions.

Disclaimer: I know I just sounded awful and I have no excuse for it, but I just used to feel, if you are going to get sick, now is the time. It's not that I wanted her to be sick, she just always was. As a side note, the Doctors just kept saying that she would grow out of it eventually. She didn't! Then one Saturday morning when she was about 5 years old, she stumbled out of her room, after being sick for a couple of days, fever and vomiting, looking awful laid back on the couch and rolled her eyes up so only the whites were showing. We took her to the ER and they figured out that she was dehydrated and tried to feed her electrolytes which just came back up. This was where having a wife that was an RN did not pay off. She was calm and great with strangers, but when it came to our kids she would be the first to panic. She spent a career seeing the worst of things and that is where here mind would go, but since the doctors all knew her they sent us home with electrolytes and the following instructions... Bring her back if she gets worse. What the hell was worse, no heart beat or what? We fed her electrolytes by a quarter t-spoon at a time and finally it took, but talk about a scary time.

I'm sorry, it's just that sometimes we get on topics and memories start flowing back and I feel the need to share them. You guys can tell me to shut up any time you want.
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‘Tis the season when memories come flooding back. This year more than most it seems.

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Songbird76

Songbird76

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Goofyernmost said:
I know this is sort of going to sound awful, but when my oldest was a baby she had (still does) have a plethora of allergies. At least once a month she would have a 104 temperature and just turn lethargic. Ear infections, throat infections, both. I can't tell you how many times we had to sponge her off to get her temperature down. Anyway, On holidays like Halloween and new years eve when we would get invited to someone's house for a party, I used to hope that if she was going to be sick make it those days. She was a good baby (except for the every evening of colic where she would cry for two hours straight) and cooperated preventing me from having to go out on those occasions.

Disclaimer: I know I just sounded awful and I have no excuse for it, but I just used to feel, if you are going to get sick, now is the time. It's not that I wanted her to be sick, she just always was. As a side note, the Doctors just kept saying that she would grow out of it eventually. She didn't! Then one Saturday morning when she was about 5 years old, she stumbled out of her room, after being sick for a couple of days, fever and vomiting, looking awful laid back on the couch and rolled her eyes up so only the whites were showing. We took her to the ER and they figured out that she was dehydrated and tried to feed her electrolytes which just came back up. This was where having a wife that was an RN did not pay off. She was calm and great with strangers, but when it came to our kids she would be the first to panic. She spent a career seeing the worst of things and that is where here mind would go, but since the doctors all knew her they sent us home with electrolytes and the following instructions... Bring her back if she gets worse. What the hell was worse, no heart beat or what? We fed her electrolytes by a quarter t-spoon at a time and finally it took, but talk about a scary time.

I'm sorry, it's just that sometimes we get on topics and memories start flowing back and I feel the need to share them. You guys can tell me to shut up any time you want.
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I don't think it sounds bad at all. Of course we know you'd never WANT her to be sick, but I totally get the wanting it to be at those times if she was going to be sick anyway. I am not a party person at all and don't generally look forward to those things. What did always drive me nuts was that my husband hates parties and get togethers even more than I do, and I rarely got to see my friends because we moved to a different town. So it was only when one of their kids had a birthday that we would get together, and then my husband would use my son as an excuse to leave right away. We didn't know he was autistic at the time, and my husband didn't really acknowledge that there was anything going on with him. So I would spend all week dealing with meltdown after meltdown...sometimes 20 of them in a day, and I was exhausted. I'd finally get time with my friends after several months of that, and after 45 minutes, my husband is saying we have to leave because A must be tired because he was melting down. I kept telling him he's not tired, he does this ALL. THE. TIME! So we'd have to leave immediately and hurt my friends' feelings and I got no down time. I didn't look forward to parties so much, but I did miss my friends, and once we were there, I wanted to catch up with them.

Over here, there's a "school doctor" who comes and does checkups on all the kids every couple of years. So when A was in kindergarten, that was one of his checkup years. The doctor asked if I had any concerns with his development, and I said yes, he cries and has meltdowns all the time, about tiny little things like which color cup I put his milk in, or who walked upstairs first at the end of the evening, etc. She offered to put me in contact with a healthcare unit that could observe, ask questions, etc, and evaluate what he needed. I said yes please! I told my husband and he was like "Why? There's nothing wrong with him!" He really was completely oblivious because he wasn't there to see it except on weekends or for an hour or two in the evening, and then he just attributed it to "being tired". It was several years before he finally realized what we were dealing with. Now you can't miss it, but back then, the only real clear symptom was crying. I felt really alone with it because my husband didn't see it. It's awful when you know your child is having health issues and you can't help because you don't know what's causing it!
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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JenniferS said:
We should be packing up the car for our drive down to Pigeon Forge right about now.

Maybe next year. Sigh.
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I'm so sorry you don't get to go. I'm hoping with the vaccine finally being approved, we'll be able to travel next year. I've pretty much given up on the idea of our Wyoming trip this summer. Flights are still down, and anywhere you go you have to quarantine both going and coming home, so it's just not going to happen. Maybe by this Summer we'll be able to travel within Europe though. I have my sights set on Austria.
 
SteveBrickNJ

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I never think of getting a vanilla milkshake at Roy Rogers. Yet my DD did and she thought it was too sweet. That's lucky for me...'cause she gave it to me. The phrase: "Too sweet" does not ever escape my lips....that phrase doesn't exist in my world 😌20201229_164013.jpg...........................You can see that I enthusiastically drank a lot of it before it occurred to me to take a photo and post it here ;)
 
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Goofyernmost

Goofyernmost

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Goofyernmost said:
I know this is sort of going to sound awful, but when my oldest was a baby she had (still does) have a plethora of allergies. At least once a month she would have a 104 temperature and just turn lethargic. Ear infections, throat infections, both. I can't tell you how many times we had to sponge her off to get her temperature down. Anyway, On holidays like Halloween and new years eve when we would get invited to someone's house for a party, I used to hope that if she was going to be sick make it those days. She was a good baby (except for the every evening of colic where she would cry for two hours straight) and cooperated preventing me from having to go out on those occasions.

Disclaimer: I know I just sounded awful and I have no excuse for it, but I just used to feel, if you are going to get sick, now is the time. It's not that I wanted her to be sick, she just always was. As a side note, the Doctors just kept saying that she would grow out of it eventually. She didn't! Then one Saturday morning when she was about 5 years old, she stumbled out of her room, after being sick for a couple of days, fever and vomiting, looking awful laid back on the couch and rolled her eyes up so only the whites were showing. We took her to the ER and they figured out that she was dehydrated and tried to feed her electrolytes which just came back up. This was where having a wife that was an RN did not pay off. She was calm and great with strangers, but when it came to our kids she would be the first to panic. She spent a career seeing the worst of things and that is where here mind would go, but since the doctors all knew her they sent us home with electrolytes and the following instructions... Bring her back if she gets worse. What the hell was worse, no heart beat or what? We fed her electrolytes by a quarter t-spoon at a time and finally it took, but talk about a scary time.

I'm sorry, it's just that sometimes we get on topics and memories start flowing back and I feel the need to share them. You guys can tell me to shut up any time you want.
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And now the rest of the story... After that incident and all had recovered, I made a visit to the pediatrician. I asked if there was nothing that could be done about her monthly illnesses due to allergies. We knew what she was allergic too, things like grass, dust, milk and so on. I asked why there wasn't an allergy shot that might relieve her from that constant illness. He looked at me and with a straight face said "There is, but we prefer that they just grow out of them". I just looked back with what was probably the most bewildered I have ever been and said, OK, then until you decide that she and her parents have gone through enough, her next fever and illness will be at your house. You can take care of it at 3am like we have too. Two weeks later she had an appointment with the allergist, received the first of a series of shots and it was about 4 more years before she even had a cold again. Ah, the good old days.
 

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