A "perfect storm" is an expression that describes an event where a rare combination of circumstances will aggravate a situation drastically. Think of the movie with George Clooney in 2000 when three storms came together and wiped those fishing boats out.
In our case, a perfect storm is what happened last week when our two-year-old was exposed to three different viruses over the course of three days, and then got sick with all three of them in one week, on a rolling wave of destruction.
Our little bugger has been sick since last Wednesday. We had hours at a time when we thought we were out of the woods, but then she would spiral downward again with new symptoms and a worsening of the existing ones. I won't go into the dirty details (literally) of all the symptoms she had this week, but let's just say that she pretty much had every symptom that any typical toddler virus on the planet might cause.
And I give Ed and I a huge pat on the back because all three of us made it through without one call to the doctor, since her fever never got above 102. Yippee! Maybe we're getting this parenting thing down after all!
As of today, Iz is feeling much better. She's her sweet, smiley, silly self again. And oh how we've missed her! Welcome back, little Bean.
Gee-Ga is sooooooo happy that Izzi is feeling better. I think she has a bit of her Uncle Don in her. When he got sick............he got SICK!!!!! Never had minor little colds, always something HUGE.
ReplyDeleteIzzi, Gee-Ga hopes you stay well from here on.