Being sick is the pits.
I haven't been really sick since we came here, thankfully, except for the usual stomach stuff (blah, blah, belch). Then last week and this one I got hit with a doozy. E was flirting with croup, as he always does, every 2 months or so, in between his incessant sinus infections, and I got something similar, but apparently worse, since he was only affected at night and I was out for most of last week and still am not quite back. Sore throat, barking cough, nausea, dizziness, sleeplessness, disorientation, body aches, check, check, triple check. It's been awful.
And, of course, in the midst of all this we finally had E's birthday party (happy belated 4th birthday! Your parents are super timely!) and there was school, as usual, and thank goodness the husband was home last weekend and this one or it would have been a catastrophe. As it was, I basically called in the towel on the kids' party games in favor of them playing in the boys' room and spent a good portion of the party otherwise engaged being sick, but the food was good and the kids were young and had a good time and there were treat bags, so everyone went home happy and I went to bed for the rest of the day. The next day, I drove the kids to school and came right home and slept for four hours until I had to go pick one of them up, then managed to get to the store for some laundry detergent and take him to the playground until it was time to get the other one and then came home and slowly spiraled downward until the husband got home from work and ordered pizza for dinner and I went to bed again. Rinse, repeat. I even missed church this weekend, something I so rarely do I can't remember the last time it happened.
Luckily, I feel better now, more or less, though my voice is gone and I still feel dizzy often and I have the sniffles. But at least I can stay upright, a major improvement. I even got a load or two of laundry done...or maybe it was two! Woot!
The underlying problem here is that we don't have a primary care doc or a pediatrician yet. I keep asking for recommendations and getting very mixed reviews, and I really don't want to wade into the abyss of healthcare in Qatar until I absolutely have to, although by then, of course, it will be too late. I need to get a pediatrician at the very least since we are on borrowed time with E's cyclical sicknesses and will certainly need an antibiotic before too long AND I really, really need to see a pulmonologist to get some scans taken before I go back to the States in case I need to follow up there. So those are my goals for the next few months. E will also need a round of vaccinations soon, if he doesn't need them already, and I think we all need some additional vaccines to keep us a bit more protected here in our second world home. I think I can wait and have E's done in the US, but the others will undoubtedly be cheaper here or even in Germany when we visit, so I need to get on those as soon as possible. Wish me luck; I am more certainly going to need it!
I haven't been really sick since we came here, thankfully, except for the usual stomach stuff (blah, blah, belch). Then last week and this one I got hit with a doozy. E was flirting with croup, as he always does, every 2 months or so, in between his incessant sinus infections, and I got something similar, but apparently worse, since he was only affected at night and I was out for most of last week and still am not quite back. Sore throat, barking cough, nausea, dizziness, sleeplessness, disorientation, body aches, check, check, triple check. It's been awful.
And, of course, in the midst of all this we finally had E's birthday party (happy belated 4th birthday! Your parents are super timely!) and there was school, as usual, and thank goodness the husband was home last weekend and this one or it would have been a catastrophe. As it was, I basically called in the towel on the kids' party games in favor of them playing in the boys' room and spent a good portion of the party otherwise engaged being sick, but the food was good and the kids were young and had a good time and there were treat bags, so everyone went home happy and I went to bed for the rest of the day. The next day, I drove the kids to school and came right home and slept for four hours until I had to go pick one of them up, then managed to get to the store for some laundry detergent and take him to the playground until it was time to get the other one and then came home and slowly spiraled downward until the husband got home from work and ordered pizza for dinner and I went to bed again. Rinse, repeat. I even missed church this weekend, something I so rarely do I can't remember the last time it happened.
Luckily, I feel better now, more or less, though my voice is gone and I still feel dizzy often and I have the sniffles. But at least I can stay upright, a major improvement. I even got a load or two of laundry done...or maybe it was two! Woot!
The underlying problem here is that we don't have a primary care doc or a pediatrician yet. I keep asking for recommendations and getting very mixed reviews, and I really don't want to wade into the abyss of healthcare in Qatar until I absolutely have to, although by then, of course, it will be too late. I need to get a pediatrician at the very least since we are on borrowed time with E's cyclical sicknesses and will certainly need an antibiotic before too long AND I really, really need to see a pulmonologist to get some scans taken before I go back to the States in case I need to follow up there. So those are my goals for the next few months. E will also need a round of vaccinations soon, if he doesn't need them already, and I think we all need some additional vaccines to keep us a bit more protected here in our second world home. I think I can wait and have E's done in the US, but the others will undoubtedly be cheaper here or even in Germany when we visit, so I need to get on those as soon as possible. Wish me luck; I am more certainly going to need it!
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