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February 6, 2001

I complained far too much about me in that last entry, so I will say something about my beautiful daughter. She has been sick. She wasn’t sick her first year of life, and now since then she hasn’t been well! She’s been sick in some form since the 12th of January. She had a runny nose to start with, then she had a mucousy-boogery nose, then it was the chest congestion, and now fevers. They come and go, and tonight she reached 104.8. She just looked so pathetic, her eyes all glassy and red, and she’s been sleeping so much, for her. I called the pediatrician today, and they said there was a virus going around, where the fever is gone (or her temp is only up a little bit during the day, but at night it goes way up). Ok, so how long does the d#%$ thing last, already? Al already had to miss last Wednesday, and he’s not going in tomorrow. There’s just no way I can put her in daycare, her fever hasn’t really gone away, and she’s just miserable. They would probably send her home, anyway. They joy of it all is, is that we have to pay them anyway, even though she wasn’t there today, nor will she be there on Tuesday, and she went home early on Monday. I don’t know how we can afford to keep paying them, as well as have Al miss so much work. Ok, I am exaggerating, we’ll be fine, but it’s the idea that makes me so angry. Why do I have to pay for something I’m not using? Grrrr.
Sunday she was doing so well, too. I thought we had finally beat this sickness in our house, but that just wasn’t the case. Al still has some chest congestion, I still have a lot of snot, and poor Alexandria; she’s just a mess. At least she has started to eat more frequently again. She was for a week or so just nursing and only having a few bites to eat here and there. I am glad to see that now she’s sitting down at her high chair and eating much better than before, but she’s still not at 100%.
Anyway, this week has been a lot better than last week, even though things still don’t seem to be going my way. I almost broke some glassware (again!) today in lab, and I dropped my final product on the floor, and I had to crouch and scrape it off of the floor while the professor stood there and watched me. I would have been angry, embarrassed, frustrated, any number of the things, but I just mumbled, “What can you do?” I seem to have recaptured some of my more mellow happy-go-lucky self. Which is good, because the stressed-out version of me really stinks.
Have a great week all!

Candace and Alexandria