One thing I always heard alot about when I was younger was that parent have to learn to live with all the illnesses of their kids, because sooner or later they’re gonna catch em too. I didn’t realize just how true that was until we started sending Rhianna to daycare.

The constant runny nose, the unexplainable fevers, and now the winter viruses. Two weeks ago Rhianna spent almost all week with the grandparents in Meridian. We took her into daycare for the first time that week on Friday, only then figuring out how lucky we were. The flu was making rounds around the place, and of the usual 30 or so kids that are there, I only saw 1/3 of them there. This week Rhianna gets sent home for vomiting on Wednesday, which we think was nothing more than too much running after eating too much food. But Friday we get a notice of Rotavirus making the rounds, sending kids home with Vomiting & Diarrhea.

Somehow, Laura & I seem to have gotten lucky and have missed the recent outbreaks. Rhianna seems to be doing well, except for the chronic runny nose that I think every 2-year old has. Laura & I aren’t exactly at 100%, winter in Mississippi always comes with coughs & stuffy noses. I’m starting to wonder if we’ve got this new thing, the “Katrina Cough“. For those of you who haven’t heard, it’s some kind of upper respiratory cough that’s affecting people in the Katrina-hit areas. We weren’t hit very badly this far north, but I think what we’re dealing with is a related sympton. Where the people down there are probably dealing with issues related to the destroyed sewage systems and spoiled food contaminants, I think we’re dealing with the side effects of the huge displaced Love Bug population that swept through here shortly after the storm, and all the crud that they brought with them.

In short, I find it amazing that I haven’t really missed a day of work since Katrina (at least not for sickness-related stuff). Between the Flu, the Rotavirus, the “Katrina Cough”, and my usual annual sinus infection, seems I should have been out of commission from roughly October to April. I’m hardly what you would call a “hearty human specimen”, but why haven’t I crumbled under it all? I guess I can owe that to Rhianna constantly bringing home stronger and stronger bugs for me to fight off. Add that with the recent 1000mg Vitamin-C pills that I’ve been taking and maybe I’ll make it for a few more weeks before I’m groaning in bed..
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