Before you have kids everyone tells you how they get sick so often but you don't realise how much they get sick until you have kids and no joke they are sick every other week. Mackay's latest thing is hand and foot virus (not foot and mouth cow type, it's a whole other virus)
Anyway he has it compete with blisters all over his body and I think Jamie and I have it too minus the blisters. Which explains why I have been feeling so crap all week. I have a real inner battle when I get sick, I lurch between thinking I making it all up and then thinking that this is totally not normal way to feel and i must google all my symptoms straight away to make sure I am not dying.
This comes from my parents who had completely opposite reactions to me being sick. My dad is totally ambivalent to sickness, Example: when I had chicken pox and a massive fever I said to him 'Dad I feel a bit hot' He said 'Don't lie in the sun then.'
And my mum is always overreacting and thinks I am dying when I get sick Example: once I had a massive hangover and she wanted to take me to the A&E, no joke.
So as soon as I get sick i constantly question whether i am sick and whether I am so sick that i should go to the doctor or just straight to the hospital. Inevitably by the time I have almost reached a decision I am feeing better and forget how i was feeling anyway.
But as an interesting aside did you know that one symptom of hand and mouth virus is sore ears. I have never had sore ears in my life. Another symptom is loss of appetite, if only I was that lucky, my appetite has increased. i can not stop eating. It's a mega eating virus. That is definitely worth seeing the doctor about.
