Sick Daze
Mom and Dad don't look so hot these days
They're getting over the hill
Death is closing in and catching up
As far as I can tell
-- Green Day "Brat"
I knew last Thursday this was not going to be a fun weekend, I just didn't know how bad it was going to get to get. Thing One was sent home from his after care provider (its a small after hours sweat shop) with some sort of stomache thing. Well, it kind of alarmed me when he told me later that night he felt like he was going to "collapse". I would expect something like this from Thing Two, he's a Drama Queen, but not from #1. So I stayed home with him Friday and got a doctor's appointment right away.
We get into the Doctor's office first thing Friday morning and he gets tested for strep (the doctor jams a giant Q-Tip down his throat) and then for the flu (then that sadistic sob rammed another giant Q-Tip up Thing One's nose). Gagging and with watering eyes, Thing One takes it like a little trooper, thanks the man and asks for another. I've trained him well.
Turns out he has The Flu. Not "the flu" or "da flu", The Flu. The big nasty one; "and oh, by the way, here's a prescription for a medicine that must be taken within the first 48 hours of onset or it won't work and by the way, no one in the county carries it. How's Thing Two feeling? Here's a prescription for him too 'cause he won't be feeling good for long. You should ask your doctor for a prescription too." Yeah well, he was right, its a hard drug to find. I think I managed to find the only three bottles of it in entire area; I needed four to fill the 'script.
So, the rest of the weekend was spent cleaning and disenfecting (I totally feel for Thing One, every time he "got sick" it was a question of sitting down or hovering. And when he'd blow, half the chunks would come out his nose). At least my house is ubber clean now.
One thing I did get to play with though, BlogBridge. Awesome cross platform RSS reader. It will sync feeds between machines and the interface is excellent. Completely alters my view of what can be done with Java.
We get into the Doctor's office first thing Friday morning and he gets tested for strep (the doctor jams a giant Q-Tip down his throat) and then for the flu (then that sadistic sob rammed another giant Q-Tip up Thing One's nose). Gagging and with watering eyes, Thing One takes it like a little trooper, thanks the man and asks for another. I've trained him well.
Turns out he has The Flu. Not "the flu" or "da flu", The Flu. The big nasty one; "and oh, by the way, here's a prescription for a medicine that must be taken within the first 48 hours of onset or it won't work and by the way, no one in the county carries it. How's Thing Two feeling? Here's a prescription for him too 'cause he won't be feeling good for long. You should ask your doctor for a prescription too." Yeah well, he was right, its a hard drug to find. I think I managed to find the only three bottles of it in entire area; I needed four to fill the 'script.
So, the rest of the weekend was spent cleaning and disenfecting (I totally feel for Thing One, every time he "got sick" it was a question of sitting down or hovering. And when he'd blow, half the chunks would come out his nose). At least my house is ubber clean now.
One thing I did get to play with though, BlogBridge. Awesome cross platform RSS reader. It will sync feeds between machines and the interface is excellent. Completely alters my view of what can be done with Java.
posted by Bang Zap Boom @ 8:25 AM
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