The rest of the week...

Well, what a week it has been. When I last blogged I left off because the after school care program called me as Lina was not feeling very good. I knew she was coming down with something Monday morning however I did not realize it would come on so quickly. Tuesday I took her to the doctors and the infection was already in her lungs. I brought work home with me and we spent two days on the couch watching everything imaginable on the tube. It's not very efficient to work on a couch with a sick child but we got into a system whereby I would time the refilling of fluids and medicine with my bathroom breaks and she would try not to wiggle too much and upset the piles of receipts I was trying to enter into the computer.

Yesterday I HAD to get back to work in the hopes that my boss and I would have a few moments to get caught up on things, Lina was getting a little bored with being at home and I honestly thought she would be on the mend. Last night when I picked her up, she was almost hoarse and hacking badly. She stayed with daddy instead of coming to Brownies with me; we were selling Girl Guide cookies around the nieghbourhood. Last night I was awake all night listening to her coughing and haking and sniffling. I got up with her numerous times and kept the cough syrup, tylenol and kleenex running.

This morning we are all worn out, Lina just got up, it's 9:30 so she probably had about 2 hours sleep. And... she's mad at me for letting her miss her bus. She wants to go to school today because there is a book fair at school and she wants to buy something. Tears already, man is she tired. I hope she beats this illness soon.