Sick boyo

[celticdragonfly]

Bother bother bother Very Bad Words.

Jamie has a fever, is cranky and unhappy.

I'm betting he picked it up from another kid at the YMCA daycare. [1]

So now the kid is sick because I was doing something for myself and getting exercise and getting time when the kids were playing with someone else.

And now I won't be able to go to the Y for a while until he's better, I can't take him there sick.

Some days I wonder why I even try. I swear, every time I do stuff for myself, it gets screwed up. And now it's screwing things up for poor Jamie.


[1] For those who aren't on the YMCA filter, I rejoined last weekend, and have gone three times. Swum 3 miles, walked 1.25.

Comments

[chaosdancer.livejournal.com]

It's all right - really, it wasn't because you did something nice for you. I have one of those guilt monsters too and it tells me stuff like that. But half the time when Kieran gets sick and catches something it's from when we're doing something nice for him, taking him somewhere fun. Of course the guilt monster tries to tell me that's my fault too, but it can't always be my fault. So therefore, it can't always be your fault either. Right?

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

Nah, if I hadn't been doing this, he'd have been staying at home with me and not had any chance to get exposed to it. We don't end up taking him anywhere fun, really. I mean, it could have been at the Chickfila playplace - but we only went there because we'd gone to the Y.

[marymont.livejournal.com]

Kids get colds.

If you keep him from getting any colds, when he finally does get one, it will be tremendously worse, and you risk him getting really seriously sick.

It's ok.

It's part of growing up.

[archangelbeth]

It helps develop the immune system. Trust me, it's just gonna happen. I didn't go to school till I was 9, and I still caught mysterious fevers.

Maybe he caught it there, or maybe he got it from something else.

The appropriate reaction is to be grouchy because you're going to catch it next, and that will suck more because adults usually get things worse. O:p At least, that's my experience.

[jazz007.livejournal.com]

I may not be a parent, but I know this for sure - YOUR time for yourself DID NOT make Jamie sick, and Don't you Dare blame yourself. (wasn't sure if anyone else would say it.)

Kids get sick. Kisses to him, and I hope he feels better :) I know it sucks to have plans interrupted, and I hope he gets better very soon so you can keep getting time at the Y.

*huggles*

[jazz007.livejournal.com]

(and this is where I learn to refresh *before* I open my big keyboard)

*more hugs*

[ciorstan.livejournal.com]

Your activity was NOT under any circumstances the cause of Jamie's sickness.

My kids were three and one respectively when we exposed them to other kids for the first time, and that was in a daycare/gym setting. Later that year we enrolled them in actual daycare as we wanted the social growth from exposure to their peers.

The first year was hell, because they came home with EVERYTHING that was going around-- hand-and-mouth, chicken pox (which was a truly hideous months, let me tell you) and every single cold variant imaginable. However, if we'd waited until our son was old enough for kindergarten to expose them, they'd have been just as sick, just as much. It is NORMAL for this to happen.

Isolating kids from the general populace will ultimately do them no favors, as once they're in the working world-- or college, as I'm aware you want to homeschool your kids-- they will simply go through that icky year later rather than sooner.

[rixende.livejournal.com]

Daniel was sick quite a bit in Kindergarten. He'd been going to my Mom's house and not daycare for the 3 years before Kindergarten.

This year, in first grade he didn't miss a day for being sick. Yea for good immune systems!