Why do they always have to get sick? And why is it always when the day camp is paid for, and you have Very Important Things to Do Without a Kid Along, and a vacation coming up later in the week?
So Ruby has another round of something unspecific and nasty. Monday night, after a couple of hours of her looking pale, tired, grumpy, and saggy, it finally dawned on me that maybe her body felt a bit warm as we read a book together. Yup, she had high fever. Coincidentally, Tuesday morning was to be her seventh year check up at the doctor, so we converted the appointment to a "sick visit." Apart from the fever, her throat looks really infected and the doctor seemed a bit concerned, but Ruby's initial strep test was negative, and thankfully, she's already had mono. So we got some blood drawn (boy, was that fun) and some antibiotics. It's now nearly 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday and Ruby is still asleep, which may be a record. Her last dose of ibuprofen should be wearing off soon, however.
To add to the joy, Rod is in pain, sleepless, and very cranky because of what he thinks is just a bad case of swimmer's ear. It hurt so much he actually went to the doctor voluntarily! He gets up every two hours for a hot compress and has formally adopted my bottles of painkillers. I suspect it might be something else, too, like Ruby's virus or an inner ear infection or a dental problem, but he says he feels somewhat better today and he went to work.
And I am very tired from everyone waking me up all night, I hate packing, and I need to clean up the house, so I am procrastinating by writing this dull piece of news.
We are thinking of hosting a foreign exchange student this fall, or taking in our occasional babysitter, who is a broke foreign college student, for a few months. Nothing is confirmed yet, and chances are decent neither will happen, but I have to think of a nice way to explain to Ruby that we might need to move her stuff out of her room. She sleeps in Carl's room, and she's a generous sort of person, so surely she won't mind, right? Yeah.
*We've been watching a lot of Scooby lately.
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