People in the House are Sick

Last Friday, I started to feel heavy for my body. On the Saturday I had cough and colds and we went to beach cause they said the sea water and breeze is therapeutic. We spent 2 hours there because the weather was good and the kids loved it.

I rested the whole day and took oral medicines such as Ambroxol and Neozep for my cough and colds of which I am taking until now. The kids in the afternoon started to have colds too.

I was actually wondering how did I get these cough and colds, I remember that two of my colleagues had cough and colds days before I felt the heaviness in my body. Maybe, I was able to get this from my colleagues. Or maybe because of the changing weather condition, sometimes it's so sunny, so hot then suddenly it will change to rainy.

Yesterday, the kids have colds already so I gave them cetirizine. I was not really feeling that well yet but I have to attend to needs like doing house chores and going to church for Sunday services. I wore double mask during the church services so that I cannot further spread this virus.

Just today, my youngest 2 year old Eila is having cough. Oh my, I became the carrier of this cough and colds at our home. I am really bothered when my kids felt something bad in their body.

Last week also, Eilan experienced impetigo - "talipaso". It was just a very small sore near the nose and then we applied an ointment but it did not heal, instead it became big and big each day.

So I ask our school nurse about it, she forwarded to the picture to our school physician and prescribed an ointment and antibiotic. Impetigo is contagious especially without medication so I religiously followed instructions for it to be healed. Thanks God, it's ok right now and we are still to finish his antibiotic.

I am praying that we will all be healed. Hubby said, that when we are all finished maybe he will be the last target of this virus, I said to him to take vitamins for him to be boosted against this cough and colds virus which is in our house right now.

Again, it's not easy to be sick. When you are parent, being sick means you cannot take care of the kids properly or you could be a carrier of the sickness. When kids became sick, we parents worry more because kids cannot express what they are feeling. In totality, we really don't like sickness to come in our homes, preventing them could be the best way than welcoming them. It's just that the guards are loosen and now they were able to enter.

I am actually wondering if I will be sending the kids to school with this situation right now. How about you, how do you manage cases like this that when one became sick and others are prone to be affected as well? Looking forward for your comments.

Keep safe everyone!

MizLhaine

10.24.2022