The biggest lasting, perceptible physical change in Phil since his diagnosis and subsequent treatments has been his lowered immunity. For someone who never used to catch so much as a sniffle it is disconcerting to have him come down with every nasty bug that the kids bring home. And often he brings it home first. And then he shares. By choosing to lie on my side of the bed. But that's beside the point.
Here's a rough representation of how things have looked here the last few weeks:
Day 1: Ocean wakes up with green junk in his eyes. He begins coughing and complaining of an ear ache.
Day 3: Iris wakes up with green junk in her eyes. Both kids get diagnosed with pink eye and Ocean has an ear infection.
Day 6: Phil starts coughing.
Day 7: Ocean complains of ear pain in the other ear. Yup, another ear infection.
Day 8: Phil wakes up with bloodshot eyes and, you guessed it, green junk. Still coughing. A lot.
Day 9: Ruby has green snot and a cough. (Note my fatal mistake... I thought this was the same coughing bug from Day 6 but OH HO HO NO it wasn't. This was bug #2.)
Day 10: Cassie starts coughing. (Bug #1)
Days 11-14: MISERY.
Day 15: Ocean starts coughing. What the..... didn't he start all of this?!
Day 16: Cassie starts with the runny nose and sore throat. (Bug #2)
Day 17: Iris starts with the runny nose and cough. (Is it #1 or #2?! 1 OR 2?!?!?! There's no way to know!!)
And here we are on Day 18. In bed, watching movies, drinking lots of fluids and praying that #1 AND #2 quickly and quietly make their way to the nearest exit.
I wish you all a healthy, germ-free weekend!
4 comments:
Wow, those are 17 crazy days! So sorry everyone has been passing the bugs around. I have found the same to be true of EZ...definitely not used to how often things hit him, and more severe than they used to. With 4 grandchildren right next door, I feel we are often in your boat. Lots of chicken soup and vitamin C. Get well soon!
Thank you, Linda!
Oh No!! What a cute, but sad posting Cassie :/ So true about getting a bit lax with the necessary "germaphobia"...
I remind myself to keep the antibacterial supplies close at hand at all times! Whereas before, I was obsessed!
I don't have young kids in my home, but my college-age kids, their friends and my students all bring me all kinds of germies... sadly I wound up really sick on our recent trip to Hawaii... lesson to self... airplanes and hotels are "scary" places for us immune compromised chemo survivors :(
Sending you all sanitized hugs and hoping everyone in your household gets well fast!
ps- tell Phil I completed just short of 2 yrs maintenance Revlimid and will see how I do keeping Myeloma dominated :)
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