My crappy attitude & sick kids

[Katy]

I’ve had at least one kid home sick for the past few weeks with croup/parainfluenza. And DH had to return to office so the logistics of making feverish kids get up & dressed & do dropoff/pickup have been interesting. This morning’s news said the children’s hospital is so full with respiratory viruses (RSV & croup) they’re diverting ambulances. Which really puts my crappy attitude into perspective. Only my youngest needed medical attention, a single dose of steroids in urgent care. Everyone else is just crabby. Are the hospitals full where you are? 

[scholastica]

It hit in my area in November and December. There was an 18 hour plus wait in the children’s hospital ER for a bit there. We knew a couple of kids who spent weeks in the hospital with it. It’s been a rough season.

[Soror]

That sounds miserable 😞 hugs

[Arcadia]

3 hours ago, Katy said:

Are the hospitals full where you are? 

Don’t think so. My county health service would announce on social media way before hospital capacity is near full. There are frequent reminders about RSV though. 

[SKL]

I haven't heard of any epidemics, but my kid missed 2.5 days of school this week for some bug, so it may be going around here.

I don't miss the days when I had to drag both kids everywhere when one was sick.

[prairiewindmomma]

We seem to be dropping off pretty steadily from a peak....but rainy season has ended so people are outside more. 

Our state requires notification if they hit crisis standards for staffing....hasn't happened this year. But, after 2022, they've been expanding bed capacity because fall and winter 2022 was a freaking train wreck. We've only been at the ped hospital a few times in the last few months for regular appointments; they still have masking requirements in place for staff and visitors.  

[Terabith]

We got mild colds when we went to the eclipse. My youngest missed a couple days of school, honestly not really because of the cold but she’s a senior and getting her to school at all this year has been rough.  She’s just completely over it, and anxious, and school has been an overstimulation train wreck.  But the attendance policy requires a dr note for every absence, so we were at the pediatrician last week for a note.  I don’t expect to ever stop masking where sick people are, at absolute minimum.  But the pediatrician says it’s not really a sick season and they’re not seeing much illness.  For what it’s worth.  Here.  

[SKL]

3 hours ago, Terabith said:

My youngest missed a couple days of school, honestly not really because of the cold but she’s a senior and getting her to school at all this year has been rough.  She’s just completely over it, and anxious, and school has been an overstimulation train wreck.  But the attendance policy requires a dr note for every absence, so we were at the pediatrician last week for a note.

Total aside, but I feel ya here.  My kid just doesn't want to go to school at all ... but in my state, you get maybe 10 days a year before they (maybe) charge you with truancy.  But what am I supposed to do, carry her in there on my back?  She's bigger than I am.  ... She does seem to know that she's approaching the limit if she doesn't want to do 12th grade twice ....

[KungFuPanda]

Ok. DH and I have a gross cold that has settled into being a super croupy chest thing. We’ve tested for Covid about 4 times but never checked to see what else was going around. I just figured we didn’t know how to act because we hadn’t been sick in such a long time. 
 

Not that ANYTHING compares to toting sick kids around. That is one pitiful, thankless job and I’m sorry you’re living that right now, @Katy.

[SHP]

Yes. I went down earlier this week. It took everything I had to call my husband and ask him to come home after lunch. I was fine the next day. 

Last night my husband was making dinner when it hit. He went to bed early, called off of work today, and had a virtual appointment. I took him to test for RSV, covid, and flu A and B.  All negative. He spent the rest of the day in bed. I am not sure he will go to work tomorrow.

 

[Terabith]

Also, super ironically, my husband works for the big hospital in town as IT and he's been in a fight with the people who run the urgent cares that are affiliated because "their census is down, so the websites must not be working well."  

He keeps going to meetings and being like, "I mean, I am not a provider, but the fact that fewer people are sick in April than they were in December seems like both a GOOD thing and also not super surprising."

[kbutton]

Last I looked, our state was basically at peak flu, and DH's ED has been on divert recently as well, though I don’t know the cause.

Four of us here had colds (we still mask, but my son has to eat at school), which were very mild, and once we seemed to be over them, they flared back up, and three of us developed pneumonia with atypical symptoms (the worst of us presented as maybe bronchitis). First time with pneumonia for each of us, and none of us got sick much even in the before times. No positive Covid tests, and the X-rays didn’t have Covid features. We pretty much only got diagnosed because DS is vulnerable to pneumonia, and he had a couple of borderline symptoms, so the three of DH's all eventually got X-rays over the next week and a half as things unfolded. DH’s doctor was flummoxed. 

It was so bizarre! One DS did have the cold, but it lasted a matter of days, and he didn’t develop the cough at all, thankfully.

[athena1277]

Around here most sick people are suffering with allergies.  The geography of the area makes it a bowl and everything just stays here.  The tree or grass pollen has been high most days.