Misery Loves Company

And things were going so well...

Yes, the joy of all things living up here on the Sunny Coast for EDM and family has come to a grinding halt. It started with the son, before moving on to myself and then the wife. The dreaded flu my friends. And hasn't it hit with a vengeance.

One of the great things about going full-time in terms of daddy daycare duties was that it meant we could take the son out of formal daycare for six months.

Now, any parent with a child in daycare will tell you, daycare is a mixed blessing. While you get to work, etc and have the child(ren) looked after, it also means the child(ren) comes home on a regular basis with an assortment of lurgies and bugs.

So taking the son out of daycare has meant that we've been free of all these sicknesses since we arrived and it's been a wonderful thing living life to the fullest and enjoying all that it brings up here in Noosa.

Well, a week of constant rain last week meant a few trips to the local indoor play centre for reasons of sanity for both myself and the son. And that's where it all began. The son picked something up from some snotty-nosed stinky and it's been hell ever since.

I'd forgotten just how miserable it is when the flu or something similar like gastro reeks havoc amongst every member of the family over the course of a week or so. It's bloody horrible as the most vicious of vicious cycles goes around.

The son being sick means he doesn't sleep which means we don't sleep which then means none of us can rest and try and get over our sicknesses. The son's refusal to take his antibiotics for the chest infection he's got certainly doesn't help either, as it means his recovery will be delayed and of course ours will be as well.

Ahh, the misery of it all. There's no light at the end of the tunnel and you start wondering if life will ever return to normal. You know it will one day, but that one day seems so far away. Yes, misery loves company and there's plenty of it to go around at the EDM household right now.

Let's hope I can bring you my next post with a more sunnier and robust disposition. I'm certainly hoping the endless pumping of sudafed and multivitamins into my system over the last few days achieves just that.

Til then,

EDM.