Swimming with the sharks

This past week has certainly been quite the parenting experience. I'm sure we would have gone through this eventually. Frankly I'm shocked we made it for as long as we did before this happened. Yes, just a rite of passage that everyone at some point has to face and deal with. And when you do you either sink or swim. Of course I am speaking of the catastrophic event of everyone in the household getting sick at the exact same time. So, did we sink or did we swim?

Before we answer that question I guess I should share exactly what we were dealing with since we all had something different. Last Friday we took Morgan to an open house at our local My Gym to see what it was like before getting her signed up for a class. The place was jammed packed and not a lot of room for Morgan to get down and explore. Not that she wanted to anyway since she is currently going through a very clingy/separation anxiety phase. But of course that immediately changed as soon as the special guest arrived. Note to self: make sure every single outing always involves a personal appearance by Elmo... or any costumed character for that moment. The moment Elmo arrived Morgan got down on the floor and very clearly navigated her way through the crowd and planted herself right in front of Elmo so of course he naturally had to give her a big hug and high five. She had fun and I'm sure we'll be signing her up for their summer session however the very next day we noticed she had a bit of goop oozing from one of her eyes. That continued for the next couple of days eventually moving over to the other eye before finally disappearing altogether. Luckily she didn't seem too bothered by it but there was definitely a bit of extra holding and cuddling to help her cope with it.

Meanwhile Pat was struggling with a bit of a sore throat and some nose issues which may or may not have been related to allergies. I know he had a couple of rough nights during the week but other then some extra coughing he seemed to have gotten off the easiest of the three of us. Of course I on the other hand ended up with the high fever, the aches, the chills, the major sore throat, the stuffy nose, the hacking bouts of coughing, and the lost voice. None of which did I think gave the slightest bit of a reason to see a doctor until I suddenly lost my hearing out of my left ear on Friday night. The nice doctor asked me if I always had very little space between my tonsils and was the inside of my ear always purple and red. Luckily those antibiotics will cure just about anything.

Like I said I'm sure this was bound to happen sooner or later but I have to say I think we managed things pretty well. Now what happens when we all come down with the flu? Well that might be a different story to tell. But for now we swam.