SayUncle v. Germs
It’s the plague.
Two weekends ago, Junior got sick. She had a stomach bug. And the Mrs. caught whatever she had. The Second remained happy and mostly unfazed as was I.
Last weekend, Junior got sick, the Mrs. got sick, and The Second was sick. They all had, to use the Doctor’s highly technical medical term, the sniffles. I, again, was untouched.
Yesterday, the Mrs. calls to say she’s picked up Junior from school because she has a fever and green boogies (which is parent code for contagious, if you didn’t know). While on the phone, the Mrs. sounded a bit, err, snotty. I don’t mean like snotty as in mean, I mean snotty as in she’s probably got a fever and green boogies too. And, given how things work, this probably means The Second will get it too. And Politically Incorrect Dog has an ear infection.
In all of this, I haven’t come down with anything. I think the germs realize they can’t get to me so they’re going after my family.
Nothing is more sad than a physically ill toddler. Or baby. Or dog. And The Mrs. seems more troubled by the fact she’s tired all the time from helping deal with sick kids while being sick herself. Ah, parenting. You can’t just take a break from it.
August 23rd, 2006 at 12:35 am
I think there is a relation to this:
http://curmudgeonlyskeptical.blogspot.com/2006/08/animal-rights-terror.html
They couldn’t get to him either, but they got to his family and neighbors….. Have any of your neighbors gotten sick?
/sarcasm
August 23rd, 2006 at 11:09 am
Maybe they wash their hands too much.
August 24th, 2006 at 3:11 pm
I’ve had the reverse problem. I’ve been getting something like three or four bad colds per year for the last few years, and my wife hasn’t gotten squat.