Doctor's Orders

So I went to my doctor today and found out that I still have laryngitis. Apparently, rest is the best cure for laryngitis. I guess that is why I still have it.

My doctor actually asked me if I could arrange to lay down and rest two hours in the morning, two hours in the afternoon and two hours in the evening for awhile. She asked if my dh could take off work. She asked if family members could watch my kids. Uhhhh .... No.

She even offered to write me an Rx for my dh saying just these things ... and to include that he should bring home dinner for the next several nights to help out.

I do get her message. However, it isn't possible to do the things she mentions unless I am in dire need. Heck, dh just found out on Monday that he will be losing all of his sick days from now on ... beginning January '10. Not sure how that will work, but dh never takes sick days anyway.

I mentioned to my mom that the doctor suggested someone take my kids for several days. My mother is wonderful and I was not really asking this of her. But, her response was that she swallowed a piece of glass this morning and she had been worried all day about internal bleeding. (What a way to say Fat Chance, huh? LOL!)

Then, my father lost one of his front teeth while at my house today. The poor man looks like a Jack-o-lantern! So, dental work for him starts tomorrow. It makes me sad that he doesn't have dental insurance; that is actually why he has the problems he has. He worked hard during his lifetime and deserves to have been treated better as a retiree.

So, needless to say, my problems are NOT that high on other peoples' lists.

It's o.k. I think her Rx was a bit out there.

Ickies

Today marks the beginning of Week 4 for this Upper Respiratory illness. It is a bit exasperating, but I think I got what I paid for by going only to a drug store clinic for diagnosis and treatment. I do not feel one ounce better since Monday night. Mucinex over the counter is just not powerful enough I guess.

Of course I am no doctor; but, I just wish they had given me an antibiotic. I really feel a need to be better by Friday to enjoy my daughter's birthday and Halloween activities. Come on, more than three weeks of this junk is looong enough already!!!!

Perhaps I should be more patient, but what feels to me like labored breathing has just taken its toll. I think I am going to have to go back to the doctor again today ... my actual doctor if possible. But her schedule is always quite full and she doesn't work that many hours in a day ... so I will sit here and wait until 9 a.m. to call and hope her schedule has at least one opening for me.

Otherwise, I think I will just have to go back to Walgreen's again today. Because my doctor doesn't work on Thursday.

Tantrums

My youngest child is in a very ugly tantrum stage. I know this happened with my almost four year old about a year ago as well, but dd#2 has some real power behind her tantrums. She has the worst tantrums of any of my children thus far.

Typically, our MO for a tantrum is to have it in your room. It is a good solution, except that dd is one strong little gal and I have to carry her VERY strong, squirming, screaming body up the stairs to her room over and over and over again when these moments occur. It's the only way to get her there. (Sometimes I hate living in a tri-level.)

Recently I have had this nasty upper respiratory icky thing. It tires me out more easily having such trouble breathing and the continued coughing; I am beginning week 4 (yes, I have been to the doctor again). Anyway, this upper respiratory thing is getting as old as the tantrums :( The two together are a bad mixture.

I am hoping that at least one or the other of these challenges improves soon ... the mix of these two things right now is very difficult.