Sickness fun

This past week has been a bit of a tricky one with sickness and not much rest.

Last Monday Daniel started to come down with a cold - it came about very suddenly. It didn't really slow him down - he still had a lot of energy, but was fortunately sleeping longer during nap times (around 2.5hrs and I was still needing to wake him up). On Friday I noticed that he had a bit of gunk in his eye, but it came out with a few tears so I thought nothing more of it. By lunchtime it had increased slightly and James and I decided that we'd take him to the doctor on Saturday (that way I didn't have to take Eliza and Daniel during nap times) but over lunch it doubled the amount so I called up and booked an appointment at 2:15 with the new doctor - Dr Ting. It was just at nap time for all 3 of us, not so great. 

I got Eliza up and we headed to the doctors. She was content to sit in the capsule and Daniel was content to sit next to me and read books for around 10mins. Eliza then decided that she needed a feed. This was fine, however, Daniel had started to become overly hyper because of tiredness. He was running from one side of the room to the other. He kept going to the toys (which I didn't want him to play with as conjunctivitis can spread pretty quickly) but I needed to pick my battles and so let him play with them so I could feed her. We eventually got in to see the Dr and she was lovely. Very friendly and very patient with Daniel. She confirmed that he had conjunctivitis and gave me a script for eye drops. We then headed to the chemist to pick them up. I really don't understand how you have to wait when there's noone else there, but still. He was good with sitting on my lap and Eliza had fallen asleep with the car trip there. When we were paying for the eye drops, I asked Daniel to just stand beside me. He did for a couple of seconds then started to go for a lap around the shop - not so cool. I then chased after him (a great game in his mind). I feel sorry for parents whose kids do this all the time. It would be really hard. He is normally so good in those sorts of situations, however, his tiredness made it more difficult. He wasn't so happy to be in my arms while trying to pay for it but he settled. We then came home and he went straight down. 

What made Friday even more difficult was that I felt the start of a cold coming on myself. It was challenging to be so patient with him, calm in my responses and understanding. I did my best. Eliza also decided to feed every 2 hours which made it even more exhausting as I'd just stop and then I'd have to get up to her. It was a very draining day. 

Daniel did well with getting his eye drops in. He didn't fuss too much which is good. His cold is almost over but I'm happy to get out a bit more now after keeping him home so his cold and conjunctivitis didn't spread. Fortunately Eliza hasn't seemed to catch the cold, even with having kisses galore from Daniel, so I hope she continues to stay healthy. I'm mostly better but have a bit of a headache and tiredness. I am trying to rest as much as I can, but am also wanting to do things around the house and get out for walks while the weather is nice. 

Hopefully winter won't bring much sickness for our little family. Will wait and see.