i do not like to admit to illness. i like to pretend it never happened.
but the strep that was so awful for Caden-8yr and Seth-6yr came back for Ethan-12yr and for me. my mother jumped in and helped take kids places and pick up prescriptions. Ethan-12yr and i went to the doctor yesterday and now we’re popping pills and keeping a pretty low profile. (low, as in flat against soft horizontal surfaces)
i’m getting there. today i put on a pair of FABULOUS new shoes, courtesy of a Christmas gift card, and decided to look a thousand times better than i felt (not hard) and really just fake the sickness away for a few necessary hours. i told my mom it was ‘shoe therapy.’ and it worked. and then i came home and faceplanted for a few hours. shoe therapy is always worth a shot, but it has its limitations.
i have a very quiet weekend ahead. yardwork if i’m up to it. faceplanting while wearing bunny pajamas if i’m not.
anyway.
that’s what’s up with the short, slightly weird blogs lately. i wasn’t admitting illness.
okay, i’m still really not. i mean, it came and it was gross and i’m still tired… but i’m in the getting OVER it phase. i don’t HAVE strep. i headed it off at the pass. yes. that’s what happened here.
i’m fine. that’s all i meant to say. hi. and, ‘i am fine.’
Ethan-12yr is attempting to ‘get on the leaderboards for a clone wars adventures tournament.’ that’s what he said. he’s at the computer at my desk.
so if i’m ‘fine’, then Ethan-12yr is probably ‘way more than fine.’
and ambitious in a really cute, geeky way right now.
this is more ‘nothing’ than my usual brand of nothing blogging. I KNOW. but denial can easily do that to you if you’re not careful. i will be careful.
5:31 pm
How great that you can have a sense of humor about even stuff llife strep throat. But please remember that it *can* be very serious, if not fatal, so take good care of yourself while you recover.
And please tell me where I can get some bunny pants. I do want some so bad!
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5:36 pm
Fatal!!??
Geez. I might need to shop for more shoes, jan!!
Gray fleecy pajama pants, featuring small white bunnies, 1/2 of which wear pink scarves and 1/2 of which wear pink earmuffs: target, clearance section, circa 2009. They’re very wintry, but I wear Em yr round because I’m always cold. : )
7:14 pm
Jan’s right. Strep throat, if left untreated, can turn into Scarlet Fever. (Happened to me just before my 10th birthday.) The good news is that with today’s antibiotics Scarlet Fever is both rare, treatable, and pretty much only fatal if you don’t see a doctor and get medication. Glad you got pills from the doc so it won’t happen to you. Just be sure to take them and get lots of rest.
7:16 pm
Oh, and the shoes? SO cute!!! If I had cute ankles I would totally wear those. Alas, I inherited my mother’s cankles.
8:48 pm
GW,
I had scarlet fever once too!!! So Victorian of us.
Never thought about ankle cuteness before. Mine might b hideous and I just never noticed. (But Im too old to start caring now.)
Really shoulda titled this “take 2 and call me in the morning.” but titles and I don’t get along.
Ohmygosh, feeling bad. Goodnight.