Seriously!?

So my last post ended with the hope that we can remain germ free for a bit of time… well, that very day Lake ended up having pink eye. Awesome!!  Thankfully we had Kaydriana’s eye drops and were able to treat him immediately. Tim ended up taking him to the doctor to confirm and gave us another prescription for more eye drops and more amoxicillin since it seems his latest ear infection still wasn’t completely cleared up.

Forward to this week and more fun ailments plague us. Since my return to work, I have moved many agent’s desks, including moving their filing cabinet and changing out the actual table on their desk. I’ve even started to lift weights again with no issues except for the typical soreness you get from a good work out. Well yesterday, my body decided it didn’t want to pretend to be strong and something went CrUnCh in my neck as I tried to push an employee’s filing cabinet. So I stopped and got someone else to move it.

Within 30 minutes I knew I really did something stupid to it. So right after I filled out the incident report and went to finally pump ( I was way over do!) I get a call from daycare.

I’m beginning to really dread when I see, “ICA” show up on my phone. Lo and behold, Lake needs to be picked up and taken to the doctor if we wish for him to be able to return to daycare the next day. He has been battling a nasty diaper infection for about a week and when his teacher noticed he had white spots on the inside of his mouth, they suspected thrush. The doctor confirmed it. I was thankful that daycare allowed Lake to return today, but between being in pain and finding out that I wouldn’t be able to nurse until Lake’s meds were done (10 days!) I was a mess. Oh and add to that I got about 4 hours of sleep, yeah, yesterday was rough.

I’ve since received some good advice and recommendations from friends regarding what I can do to still be able to nurse Lake and help prevent him passing the thrush to me. I wasn’t successful with my trip to Super Supplements and Walgreens was fresh out of Gentian Violet, but they ordered me some. In the mean time, I’m going to try to pump and feed him a bottle when I can, and when he wakes up in the middle of the night (when only mommy can comfort him), I’ll offer one breast just in case he does pass it to me. I’d rather it be contained to just one side.

I went to the chiropractor today after the Urgent Care doctor from yesterday recommend that I do. Turns out I have a tear and my muscles are cramping and getting stiff. Thankfully, my chiropractor says that since I’m starting treatment right away, he’s pretty optimistic that we can get this fixed quickly. I hope so. I do not miss my multiple times a week chiro appointments from after my car accident. I know it works with healing, but it’s just another thing to add to my list of things to do. Also, I’m not able to take muscle relaxers since I nurse, and the Naproxen I was prescribed really doesn’t provide me any relief. So I know being in the care of a chiropractor and my awesome masseuse will be the best remedy, but I already don’t have enough time in the week!

So, if anyone is counting, since Christmas, Lake has had three ear infections, and was put on steroids/inhaler for his lungs, had a nasty cold with over 101 degree temps and sore throat, pink eye, and now thrush. Kaydriana has had a double ear infection, the nasty cold with high temps, and pink eye. And then Tim and I have had colds, the stomach flu and utter exhaustion from not getting a break. I am feeling a little, “whoa is me”, but am also thankful that it isn’t worse. Our kids are “healthy” and thriving and not every parent has that blessing. I just don’t know how much more we can take without getting a break to recover and regain our energy!

I’ll end this post with, 23 DAYS!! 23 days until vacation!!! It cannot come soon enough!!