Things are looking up?

Well for the first time in nearly a week, I slept through the night. Woo! I’m also 24 hours fever free…double woo!

This flu absolutely kicked my fucking ass this week. I was the only member of my family who didn’t get tamiflu (mostly because I didn’t go to the doctor and didn’t ask for it because I don’t have insurance) and I absolutely got hit the hardest. Atlas has had a rough week but he really never recovered from his first bout of respiratory whatever before getting hit with round 2.

He was wheezing sooo loudly on Saturday I really thought I might have to take him to the ER. But we stayed on top of his breathing treatments and he seemed to start breathing a bit easier.

Christian, my oldest, has been symptom free for the most part, but spiked a 102 fever last night before bed, which means he’s staying home from school today. Ugh. I was really hoping he’d remain fever and symptom free so I could send his butt back there 😂. He has an ARD meeting at school today that me and my husband both have to go to. It’s kind of a big deal, it’s with basically the entire school staff, and they’ll go over some evaluations and testing that they’ve been doing with him (OT, speech, stuff like that).

Phoenix has…somehow…remained completely flu free…which is absolutely unreasonable because he’s my most immunocompromised kid. You look at him wrong and he’ll have a temp of 105, so….I don’t know. You tell me. Maybe the preventative tamiflu really worked. That would be fantastic.

I finally feel good enough to rejoin the public and not be paranoid that I’m doing something wrong. Which is great news because as we all know, it’s Monday! And what is Monday? Therapy nights! I would’ve done telehealth tonight if I needed to, but I honestly feel the best I’ve felt since all of this started and I have been fever free, so I do meet the criteria of being around people without being an asshole for being around people, if that makes sense.

In other fantastic news…today is January 8th…and my sister is finally leaving!!! That’s the biggest woo of all!!!!!! It’s been a loooooooong 3 weeks with her here and I’m more than elated for her to get the fuck outttttt of my house.

My husband stayed home from work today, but after Christian got a fever yesterday and I knew he’d be staying home, we both knew from then he wouldn’t be going in today. He woke up today with some mild congestion, so I’m guessing the flu has come for him, but who knows. Maybe he’s just another magical one.

Yesterday was just awful. I can’t even tell you how badly I felt this week. Most of it was just body pain.

Today, I feel like mostly a normal person. After a week of absolute hell.

I will gladly accept today for what it is and call it a win.

Oh…AND it’s a gloomy, rainy day. Does it get any better???? Maybe it’ll even rain during therapy tonight…that would literally be unheard of. One can hope.