You Down with RSV? Yeah, You Know Me!

Where have I been?  You ask.

Well…let’s see.

1. Abby had RSV last week.
2. Thus the finale in a showcase of illness from our entire family, most likely caused by our friend, RSV.
3. Abby’s RSV led to a nasty ear infection (note the word ‘nasty’, I’ll be using it liberally).
4. Abby’s nasty ear infection required amoxicillin, thus leading to a right-nasty poopy blow-out diaper each morning.
5. Abby’s RSV ear-infection poopy-blow-out-diaper-nastiness spread from her tush to her neck and soaked through her onsie right into her sleeper and quite often into the sheets.
6. Abby’s RSV ear-infection poopy nastiness no-doubt spread onto her hair and extremities while trying to free her from her night-night clothes, despite my best attempts at throwing as many wet-wipes into the mix as humanly possible…
7. …all this while Sam circled us as if he was playing duck-duck-goose while plugging his nose and yelling “Ewwwwwww!  Abby stinks!”.  Though he was of some use as he would unhappily ditch the doubled-bagged and knotted bag of diaper and wipe nasties into the dirty diaper box in the garage and put the other bag of night-clothes poopy nastiness in the laundry-room for me to tackle later…
8. …and the reason he was home was because we were SUPPOSED to have a blizzard.
9. So, of course Abby’s daily poopy morning mess meant that she also received a morning bath…
10. …often before I had a chance to take the dog out….
11. cue dog peeing on the floor….
12. ….and definitely before I had a chance to fix the kids breakfast….
13. cue Sam whining that he was hungry throughout the entire poopy ordeal (apparently, this kid’s appetite is hardy)…
14. ….and often before I also had a chance to go to the bathroom….
15. …cue my own special potty dance whilst my hands are dipping in pleasantly warm bathwater.
16. Of course, Abby got the most demonic diaper rash ever.  So, that was no fun for me to torture her with the zinc creams and certainly less fun for her.
17. And we didn’t even get that blizzard anyway.  We did get some ice, and then a whole lot of sleet…which is like tiny little frozen ice pellets.  A random guy being interviewed on the news said this, “It’s like driving on them dippin dot things”.  I thought that was an accurate descriptions.  We got several inches of dippin dots.  And then some snow.  Not a blizzard.
18. But I was still stuck at home with a sick baby and a bored -out-of-his-gourd 4 year-old.
19. On Saturday, we got a surprise maybe 4 inches of snow they didn’t forecast.  Weather-men (or ‘persons’) are sort of like doctors.  They can tell you what they THINK will happen most of the time, but they don’t really know.  It’s all just a guess. 
20. Laundry, as I’m sure you can imagine, has been a special treat.
21. Abby is feeling much, much better now.  She is back to insisting upon eating dogfood and those dang-on little fake ash things they put in gas-fire places that I try to block – but this kid is stealth I tell you.  Stealth.
22. All in all RSV wasn’t so bad, it was the ear-infection antibiotic that I think really put us in the toilet.
23. Literally.
24. So that it where I’ve been.
25. Where’ve you been?

Random alert.

Here’s a picture of Sam and his snowgirlfriend.    It wasn’t meant to be a snowgirl…but I swear this looks like a prom pic if I’ve ever seen one!