I'm sooo over it

My kids are sick.  Again.  And although it's so not about me, I'm soooo over it.  I'm tired of worrying at night.  I'm tired of keepings lists of who got what medicine when, I'm tired of the top shelf of my fridge being consumed by white and pink medicines that smell like butterscotch and cotton candy.  I'm tired of kids staying home from school (read: with me ALL the time) and I'm tired of one sick kid holding the rest of us hostage at home.  Most of all, I'm tired of my babies feeling icky. 

I'm also just a tiny bit worried that Kaiser has me red-flagged as a Munchausen by proxy mom.  You know, those creepy moms on 20/20 you see who do weird shit to their kids on hidden camera in a doctor's office or something to make their kid sick?  Yeah, one of those.  The last month or more we've been at Kaiser at least once a week, if not more often.   I was there today with my latest sicky, this time the little girl.  She was in bed for the night at 5pm yesterday and by 9pm when I peeked in on her she was burning up.  Then this morning she started swatting what looked like imaginary flies off of her ears.  If you're a mom of a little one you know that's when you say, "Oh, crap.  Not her ears."  With Drew's history of ear issues I wasn't gonna let this go the day without her being seen.  Because it's a holiday the normal Kaiser offices were closed and it was the urgent care.  Were you there?  I didn't see you but I think you were the only person NOT there.  Long story short, Lauren was seen and her right ear is quite infected.  Gah.  She was fussy all day today which is the first time ever that she's been grumpy for more than minutes at a time.  That was the biggest indication that something was wrong.  Here she is, believe it-or-not, in a somewhat grumpy state.  You can see she's still smiling.  I don't mean to brag but even when sick, my kids still are pretty damn happy.  It's almost annoying, actually.  Makes me feel like a real bitch for being not happy when I have the slightest affliction.
  

101* fever and an ear infection

I hope my friends at Kaiser are ready to see me two more times this week.  Drew has her pre-op tomorrow and then her surgery on Wednesday for tubes.  Then I hope we can bid farewell to our Kaiser family for a long, long time.  And I hope to regain some normalcy back into our lives.  The gym misses me and the park misses the kids.    

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