My Sick Kiddies

My Sick Kiddies

My kids are all sick , they always get sick together. That’s one of the joys of having children so close in age to each other. I don’t know how many times I’ve taken my children to pre-school, walked them into their classroom and saw one of their friends hacking up hairballs, or run up to greet them with green boogers dripping from their nose. I can then almost guarantee that 48 hours later one of my kids will come down with whatever they had and then the cycle starts. It bounces from one kid to the next until everyone in the house has it.

This year has been extremely brutal on the sickness front. With such a diverse population in Southern California, new viruses pop up all the time. My kids have so many nationalities in their classrooms and all the kids travel to visit relatives in other countries or have the relatives visit them, that it’s a crucible of funky germs. We once received a warning notice from the school about some bug running through the classrooms brought back by a family visiting relatives in Israel. ISRAEL!? I’d never even heard of the “Israeli Flu”.

I suppose, as the world keeps shrinking, and we all become more homogenous as a society, that this will eventually cease. But, when that point will be reached, I don’t know. And, what will surface before that happens, like some sort of kick ass TB, really scares the crap out of me as a parent. All I know is that when I was a kid, I never experienced the kind of stuff that’s going around these days.

When I was a child classmates had occasional colds, maybe the chicken pox, and a rare case of head lice. Now all bets are off as to what will walk through the door of a classroom.

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