Sick Boy

Jack's been sick for the past couple of days. He's had a nasty cough that sounded like it was on the verge of turning into the croup and yesterday he developed a fever. I had 5 people ask me if I was going to take him to the dr. Um...no. What's the point, it's a cold and I already have cough syrup for him and I have Children's tylenol there for there is nothing they can give me. I am not putting my child on antibiotics for something that's not needed to be treated by them and since the ped here thinks that they'll solve everything I try to prevent him from seeing my children as often as possible.

Last night on my way to bed I checked on him as soon as I hit their bedroom doors and he started coughing horribly so off I went to get his medicine and he was burning up. After he had his medicine and a drink of water he just sat there just dazed, so I asked him if he wanted to go to bed with me, he crawled into my arms. He layed in my bed for over an hour coughing and trying to get to that comfortable spot, he finally did. He was so hot that I felt like my own body temp went up 5 degree's from him just cuddled up to me! He did finally doze off about 2:30 thankfully and slept pretty good, coughing off and on, but not too bad. He woke up with a fever but after a dose of tylenol the fever stayed away, the coughing came less and less throughout the day. It's not gone, but it is better than the last 2 days.

The most frustrating thing to me is that I know he got this from Childcare at the Chapel. I don't understand why parents bring their child to childcare. I think it's selfish and simply uncaring towards others. I love going to PWOC, I love being the Sparks Director, I enjoy Sunday Service, and Wed Night Alive...but when my child is sick either me or my husband will be home with our child(children). Chad's the Games Director but has a great assistant and I have a wonderful Secretary so that if I HAD to miss a Sunday it's possible. I did miss Wed. PWOC because I didn't want to espose more children to Jack and didn't want to take a chance of him getting worse.

It just seems like common sense to me. You don't take your sick child around other children and expose them to what your child has. There are times when it's mandatory because you have to run and get medication or some food at the store, but you take wipes to wipe the card down, you get what you need and get out, you do things as quickly as possible. This is my job. I'm a mother. I stay home because I want to be the one raising my children. I home school Jacob because I know this is where God's led us. I guess it's priorities. Putting my child first and also considering other children up there too. The fact is, that when parents continue to take their child out into public around other children they just keep the cycle going. Your child may get over it, but it's going to come back. It's really frustrating to me. I just simply don't have the capacity to understand and well simply put I don't want to understand it.

Ok, I'm done with my rant! :)

God Bless