Seriously?!?

Okay, so I just need to vent. Pardon my self indulgence.

Monday I reluctantly bid farewell to my mother and family who had been in town helping me since Elsie Jane's birth. I have been so grateful to have someone care for my kids, clean my house, fix meals, and just support me over the past three weeks. But, I figured I could handle things on my own now, and at some point would need to make the transition.

Since my mom left, Elsie Jane began vomiting, couldn't keep anything down for over 20hours and we spent a long evening in the emergency room ruling out pyloric stenosis and other complications, addressing dehydration through IV's, and concluding she must have a stomach virus. Fortunately, she finally kept down some Pedialite and we returned home the same evening, only for Jeffrey to wake up with the stomach flu yesterday and me to notice considerably more pain with my incision.

Which leads me to today, Thursday, upon which I find myself continuing to recover from major abdominal surgery, just having returned from the doctor who confirmed that I have a bad urinary tract infection which is the source of some of my pain, and having spent last night throwing up and this morning aching and miserable as I seem to have also contracted the flu. Seriously?!?

All I can say is: Enough Already. After nine months of constant nausea, I thought my days of vomiting were well behind me, and I expected to continue feeling better after my c-section, not get knocked down hard by three different ailments all at once. Apparently, I was NOT quite ready to function on my own.

Add to all of that Maggie getting a stomach bug and vomiting all over my mother at church, the car, and the house for 24 hours a week ago; Mia falling and tearing her skin up in a traumatic injury the day before; and Maggie breaking her collar bone on Thanksgiving, and we have now officially had more illnesses, injuries, and trips to the hospital in the last five weeks than in the past nine years Jeffrey and I have been married. Seriously?!?

And, I already have five more doctor visits scheduled in the next month.

I am looking forward to more peaceful, safe, and healthy days ahead. I am also ever grateful for good health insurance (I think I totaled over $25,000 in bills from the last five weeks, of which we will only pay a couple hundred dollars) and generally good health. None of these are long-term or lasting medical conditions.

And, I am quickly remembering that however old I get, I still need a mother, especially when I feel down and out.