If the week doesn't involve a bad cold and a black eye, is it really a week? These are the questions one ponders as the second half of November commences. Lime is mostly over the cold now, still prone to occasional coughing fits but no longer sounding like an alien and more or less his usual demeanor, all for the low price of several low-sleep nights this past week. Of course, while he was feeling the most poorly, there was an incident that involved Lemon, Lime, and the corner of a table. Accounts as to the exact nature of the incident differ, but all parties agree that it involved the corner of Lime's eye and the corner of the table coming into contact with a certain degree of force. So, if you want to know why my child looks like he was in a bar fight, well, now you know as much as I do.
Although I'd held out hope that perhaps Lemon would escape this cold, since he didn't come down with it right away, it appears those hopes were in vain. He started sounding like an alien yesterday, and was pretty miserable when he got home from school today, coughing and exhausted. He had a mild fever this evening as well. So, I loaded him up with ibuprofen before bed and am hoping against hope that maybe he'll just throw this off in a day or two. Fingers crossed. It's tough knowing that the two possibilities for CF and a cold are either getting over it quickly or it kicking off some much more involved cycle of illness. We've been very lucky of late that we've been able to dodge that latter outcome more often than not, but that doesn't mean we've forgotten that it's out there as a possibility by any means.
I did finally hear back from our clinic on ranitidine. The response was that they are only changing to a different medication for patients who are on the liquid formulation, and for patients who take pills, like Lemon, they are staying the course unless the patient prefers to switch. So, I suppose we will stay the course for now. I am very reluctant to make any changes to Lemon's digestive regimen since it took us so long to get things working right in that department in the first place.
Other than that, I feel that this week provides a good sneak preview of the childcare situation for the coming weeks. Today, the nanny was sick. I fully anticipate that tomorrow Lemon might be home sick. Lime's school is closed Wednesday - Friday. Lemon's school is closed Thursday. And next week is Thanksgiving. A related question--since when does Christmas start immediately after Halloween? Is this a new phenomenon? I feel like for a majority of my life it had the decency to hold off until after Thanksgiving, but maybe things have changed. At least I am not alone in the household in wishing that fall would stick around a little longer--Lime insisted on listening to Halloween music before bed tonight!
