Yes, We’re alive
Thanks to those of you who checked in on us and left your kind wishes. I did get it too. But my body at least held off until the morning, allowing me to run back and forth between bedrooms for the duration of the night. For the three of us the illness lasted only 12 hours or so.
But for Robby it is not yet gone. I’m going a little crazy now. He’s been sick since Sunday night. Of course it’s not like it was, but it’s not gone either. He’s still vomiting about once a day and has some minor diarrhea. So I’m in that weird area where I’m trying to figure out if he’s really ok or if he is on the verge of being really NOT ok.
He’s acting fine, but I don’t know how. I can see how much fluid is going in and how much is coming out, and the two just don’t match, so I don’t see how it is that he is still able to even function. But the pediatric nurses on the phone assure me that if he is acting ok then he is all right.
I’m ready for this to be done and out of my freaking house. Five days is entirely too long to watch your baby waste away.
Meanwhile, we’re being ticketed for not shoveling the sidewalk. Oops. We’re new to home ownership, and, um, yeah we just didn’t really think about who shovels the sidewalk. Not that we could have done anything about that, since the day it snowed was the day Hubby got sick on the train ride home (boy is that a good story. Oh, how I wish he was willing to guest blog it for ya’ll, but alas, he says he won’t). So we missed the window where it was snow, and now it’s just a big sheet of ice that Hubby says we’d have to go at with a pick axe. But I’m sitting here looking at a ticket (left in my door knob after a freaking patrol car sat in front of my house for like 5 minutes) stating that we’ll be ticketed again every 24 hours until it’s clear. Awesome.
And all the kids walking home from school are giving me dirty looks through the window as they walk on our un-shoveled walkway. Ok, maybe not. But this has been one crap-ass week.
So glad to hear things are looking up, I’ve been thinking about you guys. Sure hope Robby is back to normal soon, Sydney had that a couple years ago. I kept thinking she was on then mend and then she would barf again - for several days in a row. So frustrating. A ticket!?! - that sucks!
well, at least things sound better! I hope it is behind you guys soon!
That is crappy.
I can’t believe you get ticketed for snow on the walkway. I’ve always been annoyed that we get notices about the weeds in the drainage ditch. Don’t these people have something better to do with their time?
Poor little Robby.
I hope he gets better soon.
Oh no. The snow police
Don’t they have more important things to do then harass people. Have they ever heard of CRIME!
If I were you I would attach the hose to the kitchen sink and run hot water all over it. Or just take another ticket and wait until tomorrow. It will surely melt in the heat wave we are about to have!
Oops.
But the hose idea will totally rock if the cop is watching. Maybe let it go loose for a second and get his patrol car
Poor kid! Hope he gets better quick and you all stay well…
I can’t wait to hear the story of the train…
And poor Robby! Sydney is still talking about “Robby. Juice.” And then she pats her tummy and nods her head in a knowing way.
Can you talk with the police station and explain the situation (husband out of town, everyone sick with the stomach bug)? Explain that this is your first winter in the area, and now that you understand the law (even if you think it’s stupid) you will do your best to comply. Even if they cant reduce the ticket to a warning, maybe they can hold off on ticketing you further once they understand that you aren’t being intentionally neglectful.
Hope you all get feeling better sooner!!
This post is upsetting - in a righteous way…I feel so inclined to run some kind of intervention about that ticket! I want to defend you! There’s got to be some kind of mercy for a household of desperately sick people! I’m so sorry this has happened. It’s just not right.
yuck! I am so sorry to hear your week has been crazy and crappy (no pun intended) week. As for the ticket, contact your township. that’s crazy. if no one fell and seriously injured themselves outside your house, tell them “you heard the warning, now bug off”…
Yucky. I’m so sorry you’re all having to go through this! It’s a nightmare. Thank goodness it’s short. I just hope things start looking better for Robby really soon! Let me know if you need anything!
A ticket!! That is nuts. Thank goodness they don’t do that around here. Phew!
I hope that everyone is feeling back to normal soon.
I hope some busybody neighbor didn’t turn you in…that was my first thought (having been turned in for a VERY minor problem by a Gladys Kravitz-type neighbor once).
I hope Robby is 100% soon. Poor little man.
Oh, I sympathize! As for the sheet of ice on the sidewalk, I recommend: ice-melt or a combination of salt and sand. Spread it early enough in the day that the sun can attack it mid-day. Chop before the sun goes down and it refreezes. In the absence of a pickax, do you have a heavy shovel? chopping ice is hard. Don’t try to do it all in one day.
– one who knows
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