Pura Vida XoXo

the dirty yucky germs!!!!!!!!

there sure are a lot of germs in the world....... and i'm not talkin about the john edwards variety!!!! i'm talking about the dirty yucky germs that we seem to pick up everywhere that make us sick (although john edwards makes me sick....... sorry just read the stack of people magazines that moppa gave me). anyways........ i ended up taking milo into the dr this afternoon. he seemed to be getting worse. he stopped moving his mouth when he talks and drooling a lot. :( i thought for sure it was strep throat. but nooooooooooo i got to learn about a whole new yucky thing. he has caught a virus the coxsackie virus to be exact! it caused a lovely little thing called herpangina..... which is a fancy way of saying really painful canker sore type blisters all around the back of this throat and one possibly two on his tongue. something that his doctor says is very common but one of the worst possible viruses as far as suffering goes for little people. since swallowing hurts so bad he's drooling a ton and he refuses to drink his medicine. he doesn't even want popsicles or milkshakes now. so what little tools i have to offer a tiny bit of relief are seemingly useless. there's not much we can do but just go through it. lots of hugs and cuddling. a really quiet little man who drifts to sleep and then wakes up crying.

as for me...... i'm better from one day of antibiotics and lorin starts his today. i don't really know what else to say except THIS SUCKS! i hate seeing my little guy feeling crummy! :(