Day five.
Weekly sick child tally- two.
Time to myself- zero.
Clearly there is Something Going Around as I have had one sick child home from school each day this week.
As mentioned in my previous post Number 1 son was home for the first two days before managing to crawl back to school on Wednesday.
Just as well he recovered, because after picking up a victorious Number 2 son from a basketball round robin on Tuesday (victorious, but in a state of collapse), they switched places and Number 2 has spent much of the remainder of the week in a fevered sleep on the couch.
Of course, if the Man catches this variety of plague I may well have to resort to extreme measures to deal with him because I’m all outta sympathy. 😉
As I have had no time to myself this week and can’t think of anything intelligent to write, I had to share this clip which, appropriately, includes a couch funeral and the exhortation to get off the couch and do something, people!
Sofa People, by The Pigs.
Buried words and Bushwa. 
I love The Pigs 🙂
The End Of Winter Lurgy seems to strike just when we think we’re out of the woods… Apparently there is a Norovirus (stomach bug) Going Around and/or a version that presents respiratory flu symptoms also. Both are stalking my work colleagues. I have almost worn the skin off my hands from washing them. I assume you do similar and/or have amazing resistance to bugs. I hope it goes no further in your household.
I am definitely not a country music fan but The Pigs…. Hilarious! 😀
I hate saying ‘something is going around’ because people are too quick to blame that for everything but this time I think I am completely justified. Not only are you describing the very thing stalking us all the way down here in Melbourne, but so many of the teachers at the boy’s school have been affected this week that the stray kids are crammed so tightly they are falling out of the doors of the available teachers classrooms!
I’m hoping I don’t get it either, but I expect that all those “thank you mum” hugs gave me more than love….. 😦
Gah… it’s a vicious circle isn’t it? Teachers get sick, kids are crammed into the few remaining classrooms and then everyone gets sick. The Daughter had a cold for almost 2 weeks. In desperation I suggested she paint iodine on her tummy for a couple of days and bingo! Something worked. It may have been co-incidence, but I think the iodine helped her immune system fight back. Apparently we don’t get much iodine in our food here so supplementing externally can help. Do NOT drink it though. Just paint on about a 20 cent coin worth. If the stain disappears within 8 hours you’ll know you’re low on iodine.
Here’s hoping it stops here before you find yourself taking those extreme measures.
xxx Hugs xxx
I hope so too! 🙂
I HATE country but I LOVED this song! Blue singlets, a combi and a good? American accent. Perfect. 😀
I have been known to flee the room when country music is played so I know where you’re coming from. The Pigs though, I just love them!
-grin- You may just have made a convert of me too.
Oh and… commiserations. 😦
Pingback: All The Single Laydeez. | Buried words and Bushwa.