I was sooo sick yesterday. Fever & sore throat & literally couldn't function, just getting to the bathroom took a toll on me.
And my 18mo is very high-needs.
It was NOT a good day at all. I locked us both in the bedroom (and locked the pets downstairs so I wouldn't be disturbed by barking etc.) and at one point forced my TV-free toddler to watch cartoons. I don't even know what he watched (and if I ever introduced TV I always wanted it to screen it first to see if it was appropriate). And that only bought me about an hour. Luckily he doesn't eat a lot of table food so I was able to get away with just nursing him & making a quick smoothie to share. But seriously, it was one of the worst days ever. He isn't content to play on his own, and though he loves reading, my throat was too sore to read to him much. I was counting down the minutes 'til DH got home and I could SLEEP.
So I'm kind of mad that DH wasn't willing to come home early. He had a meeting -- OK I get that but it was just with coworkers & he meets with the same people almost every day, I feel like he just could have canceled. Everyone in my company (I WAH now but everyone else works from the office) calls out sick if their spouse is sick. When DH is home sick I bring him food/tea and take DS out for the afternoon so he can rest (and this is when I was chronically ill myself). I'm never as sick as I was yesterday so it's not like this is a monthly thing or anything.
So I don't know if I'm just venting or what... Guess I could use some ways to handle this if/when it happens again. I would've called my mom to help but she was on vacation (and usually works full-time anyway), so there was no one to help.
I'm mostly better today, still a little under the weather though!
And my 18mo is very high-needs.
It was NOT a good day at all. I locked us both in the bedroom (and locked the pets downstairs so I wouldn't be disturbed by barking etc.) and at one point forced my TV-free toddler to watch cartoons. I don't even know what he watched (and if I ever introduced TV I always wanted it to screen it first to see if it was appropriate). And that only bought me about an hour. Luckily he doesn't eat a lot of table food so I was able to get away with just nursing him & making a quick smoothie to share. But seriously, it was one of the worst days ever. He isn't content to play on his own, and though he loves reading, my throat was too sore to read to him much. I was counting down the minutes 'til DH got home and I could SLEEP.
So I'm kind of mad that DH wasn't willing to come home early. He had a meeting -- OK I get that but it was just with coworkers & he meets with the same people almost every day, I feel like he just could have canceled. Everyone in my company (I WAH now but everyone else works from the office) calls out sick if their spouse is sick. When DH is home sick I bring him food/tea and take DS out for the afternoon so he can rest (and this is when I was chronically ill myself). I'm never as sick as I was yesterday so it's not like this is a monthly thing or anything.
So I don't know if I'm just venting or what... Guess I could use some ways to handle this if/when it happens again. I would've called my mom to help but she was on vacation (and usually works full-time anyway), so there was no one to help.
I'm mostly better today, still a little under the weather though!
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