ErinKC
10-12-22, 17:47
Hi All - I've been posting more than usual lately because I've just been through the wringer! Now I'm just feeling generally low/anxious/out of sorts and wanted to kind of vent and get some advice and good vibes.
First - my daughter has been sick EIGHT times this school year. She's in 3rd grade and she's missed 17 days of school. The worst was this past two weeks when we all had the flu, which was horrendous, and she missed a full week and then I kept her home two days last week because her sinuses were so bad and she was just so miserable. The school gives me such a hard time about it and she has a really obnoxious teacher this year and it just adds so much extra stress! I have no idea what they expect from me when she's sick. I'm not going to send her in sick but they make me feel like she's the only kid getting sick all the time. But, then I talk to our pediatrician who says it's mania out there and everyone is sick with 100 things. So, I don't know if the school is just gaslighting me or what.
I was finally feeling better from the flu - not 100% but better than I'd felt in 2 weeks - and then my daughter woke me up at 5am to say she had a terrible sore throat. By morning she felt ok and I think it was just a dry throat from her persistent post-nasal drip from the flu - but at 5am (which is like my anxiety witching hour) it really set me off thinking she might have yet ANOTHER illness.
I have also just been knocked down hard by this flu. It took me this full two weeks to even begin to feel better and then today I'm just still feeling all brain foggy and blah from my sinuses still being kind of gunky. The panic that my kid was sick with something new that we'd all get just really got me overwhelmed. I'm having such a hard time dealing with all the sickness. Part of me just wants to pull her out of school to homeschool and keep us all safe at home again. I hated all the lockdowns and isolation, but at least I felt safe. I was at work yesterday and my coworker was SO SICK, full of snot and coughing, and I'm just SO TIRED OF IT ALL.
I just feel so out of sorts across the board. I want to take a break from the world, but obviously we can't do that. How are others coping with this terrible winter of viruses? Have you experienced this if you have kids - just sick CONSTANTLY? It's too much.
First - my daughter has been sick EIGHT times this school year. She's in 3rd grade and she's missed 17 days of school. The worst was this past two weeks when we all had the flu, which was horrendous, and she missed a full week and then I kept her home two days last week because her sinuses were so bad and she was just so miserable. The school gives me such a hard time about it and she has a really obnoxious teacher this year and it just adds so much extra stress! I have no idea what they expect from me when she's sick. I'm not going to send her in sick but they make me feel like she's the only kid getting sick all the time. But, then I talk to our pediatrician who says it's mania out there and everyone is sick with 100 things. So, I don't know if the school is just gaslighting me or what.
I was finally feeling better from the flu - not 100% but better than I'd felt in 2 weeks - and then my daughter woke me up at 5am to say she had a terrible sore throat. By morning she felt ok and I think it was just a dry throat from her persistent post-nasal drip from the flu - but at 5am (which is like my anxiety witching hour) it really set me off thinking she might have yet ANOTHER illness.
I have also just been knocked down hard by this flu. It took me this full two weeks to even begin to feel better and then today I'm just still feeling all brain foggy and blah from my sinuses still being kind of gunky. The panic that my kid was sick with something new that we'd all get just really got me overwhelmed. I'm having such a hard time dealing with all the sickness. Part of me just wants to pull her out of school to homeschool and keep us all safe at home again. I hated all the lockdowns and isolation, but at least I felt safe. I was at work yesterday and my coworker was SO SICK, full of snot and coughing, and I'm just SO TIRED OF IT ALL.
I just feel so out of sorts across the board. I want to take a break from the world, but obviously we can't do that. How are others coping with this terrible winter of viruses? Have you experienced this if you have kids - just sick CONSTANTLY? It's too much.