On our way to preschool today, Audrey told me I was the best mommy in the whole world. Hot dang! If that isn’t a good way to start your day, I don’t know what is! The thing of it is, I haven’t felt like the best mommy lately, but it really hasn’t been my fault. I’ve been sick, really sick. It’s going on almost 3 weeks and I’m still sick. What started as just a little cough, which I thought was due to the drastic change in weather we had a few weeks back, has progressed into multiple infections.
Last week I went to Urgent Care and was told that I had a sinus infection and a double ear infection. The sinus infection I totally understand because I get them all the time, but the ear infection was really weird. So I get put on antibiotics for 10 days and a decongestant and usually after a couple of days on antibiotics I feel better, but not this time. No, this time I got worse. I told my husband that it felt like my chest was rattling when I took a breath and my cough kept getting worse. I went back to the doctor on Saturday and was told that I now had a bronchial infection and that I sounded completely restricted when I breathed. After a breathing treatment and a prescription for a new antibiotic and inhaler, I was sent home and told to get some rest. HA! How could I possibly rest when I had a birthday party to attend to, trick-or-treating (we had ours on Saturday night), and a house to clean since we’d be having guests on Sunday. Oh and not to mention the fact that my husband decided to paint our kitchen, mud room, pantry and powder room over the weekend so I was left to attend to Audrey as well. Yep, the best mommy in the whole world couldn’t even muster the strength to play Candy Land.
I only have one more dose left of this second antibiotic and I am thankfully starting to feel a little better. I still hack like I’ve been smoking for 20 years and I still have no sense of taste, but I do feel like I’m on the mend. My loss of my sense of taste was confirmed by my husband last night when he asked if I had put any seasoning in my always savory pasta sauce. To me, everything tastes the same. The best mommy in the world made Audrey’s favorite dinner and she didn’t touch it because she said it was yucky. Oh well, I’m sure her meal of a banana and string cheese was just fine.
I don’t exactly know what prompted Audrey to make such a grand statement, but I’m determined more than ever to get back to being healthy. Then she’ll see just how great I really am.
