So yesterday Miranda threw up all over the kitchen floor, five times in rapid succession.
Then Dan gave her a bath, and she didn’t feel hot, and she went to sleep. I kept her home from school because I didn’t want to risk anything, and she seemed pretty normal all morning. Then fought with her sister, burst into tears several times, and finally went back to her room, lay down, and fell asleep for two hours.
So Dan and I started freaking out that she had swine flu. Marissa fell asleep on the floor of my office, so we couldn’t really tell if she had swine flu or not.
After dinner, which we ate together, sans kids, I went to Meijer to get apple juice, chicken, fruit snacks (because, my logic went, if Marissa WAS sick I would let her eat more fruit snacks), apples, milk, and those nasty kid yogurts that I’m convinced are sugar syrups held together by a little bit of dairy product – again, my logic being, if my babies were sick they could eat all the nasty colorful kid yogurt they wanted, if only it made them feel better! Also fancy popsicles. Then to Blockbuster to buy The Pirates Who Do Nothing, I think it’s called – it’s the Veggie Tales movie and the girls had seen a trailer of it, and were quoting various lines from it. I have no faith that anyone can put his or her hands on me and heal me, but I do have a lot of faith that DVDs can heal. Also I bought Kit Kitteridge. Sooo this is why Dan does not like me doing emergency runs when the kids are sick because I get crazy.
When I got back, he’d given Miranda Tylenol because she felt a little warm but he didn’t know the actual temperature, so I don’t know if I should take her to the doctor tomorrow at my pediatrician’s clinic or not. The fact that they’ve closed two schools down because of one child having swine flu frightens me – I feel I have a civic duty to find out if my child has swine flu – on the other hand, I’m wondering if I’m going to be one of 350 women who feels that she has a civic duty to find this out and we all end up in a tremendous line in front of my pediatrician’s office and I or Miranda actually CATCH flu from one of the sick children.
And Dan of course is saying worriedly, “I’ve been really tired today. Do you think I have swine flu? Feel my forehead.”
Lord help us.
