Why, oh WHY, do kids always get sick when you have plans?

[davsand]

Other DU parents have YOU experienced this phenom or is it JUST me? I swear to gawd, my kid will get sick EVERY freaking time I try and plan for anything.

She is healthy most of the time, but let me plan to go someplace or do something and BOOM--the poor kid gets sick. 52 weeks in a year with the majority of them with nothing going on--no plans--and I will guarantee you that my child will catch something the one week I plan to be someplace.

Tonight it was a benefit dinner we were planning to go to. I am missing a dinner to benefit a friend who had no health insurance and is now in the ICU. Hubby went without me and they still get the cash for the fundraiser, so we are helping out even IF I am not there, but I would have liked very much to be there in support.

Don't get me wrong--I love my kid and I hate more than anything to see her sick. (That is the major part of my frustration, I think.) But somehow, in the back of my mind is this voice asking WHY, oh WHY do they always get sick when you have stuff planned?

Is it only my kid?


:shrug:

[ScreamingMeemie]

1. Awwww. My children do this to me as well. I've held puke buckets

while dressed in formal wear...given tickets to events away. My heart is with you. Tonight, it is my big boy (MrG) who is ill...and between you and me, he's worse than the kids.


:hug: the other Laura

[davsand]

They really are big children when they get sick.

Man, I'll take a sick kid over a sick husband ANY day. A puking kid with the TROTS (my personal view of hellish life, btw) will still be preferable to a husband with a bad cold.

The image of holding a puke bucket while in formal wear made me LOL. Thank you for that!



The other "other Laura"

[WritingIsMyReligion]

9. What is it with men and being sick?

I obviously have very little experience with the male sex, but on the rare occasions I've seen my dad sick, he griped more than any kid. And if a boy at school even SNEEZES, it seems like, he has to go to the nurse, whining all the way down the hall....

:eyes:

:shrug:

[bleedingheart]

11. did the puke bucket match the shoes?

cuz...you know...there might be a market for that...

[JVS]

2. Kids are natural homebodies, and their immune system is in on the scheme

There's just some part of their nature that objects to breaks in the routine.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

3. We're conniving little things that way.

;) ;)

[ScreamingMeemie]

4. Don't tell me you still do that to your Mama....

;) Heck, you're such a nice person, I'd stay home and baby you on the internet if you were sick. :hi: :hug:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

8. Oh, no, I haven't been SICK, sick, in years.

I threw up once last year, but that was a stomach bug. No fever or anything, and I went to school the next day. My Mama's the one puking and coughing and whatnot, though it was worse when she taught middle school. TALK about freakin' sick kids! And they pass it all to the teachers. I should know. :D

:hi::hug:

[davsand]

12. Do you need your medicine in a little cup too?

I've got THAT part of it down, at least. I may be ready for a teenager if that is as bad as it gets.

I never DID get the hang of the whole rectal temperature thing, however. I was supremely grateful when Material Girl got old enough for an oral thermometer. I guess teens don't require that either...

I can do chicken soup. I did THAT tonight for dinner, in fact.

I expect that soup thing will be a lifetime pattern for her. I can see leaving my nursing home to take her chicken soup when she's middle aged. Hell, I might have to cancel my own FUNERAL someday if she gets sick--just so i can make her chicken soup.

:)

You kids do realize how much we Moms love you guys--RIGHT?


Laura

[SeattleGirl]

5. Check out page 3 of "The Kid's Handbook"

"You will get some type of illness every time mommy or daddy has plans to do something without you."

I tease, but I do understand. That happened at times when my daughter was growing up. It fact, i was surprised when she DIDN'T get sick when I had plans!

[Redstone]

6. Welcome to The Joy of Parenthood.

Redstone

[Shine]

7. The answer is NO, you're not the only one this happens to. Trust me.

and the more kids one has, the greater the chance of it happening. :eyes:

[bleedingheart]

10. I did nothing for the first 5 years of my parenting....

all because I have two asthmatic children.

One night I was supposed to go to my aunt's 25th wedding anniversary celebration...big event...and lo and behold my daughter was just too sick...and while we had a baby sitter lined up (who told me that she would care for her even with the fever)...I had a hunch she would bet too sick to be left alone with a sitter...the festivities were to start at 5pm ...but instead around 8pm I drove her to the emergency room ...she was so sick by the time the ER got around to triaging her that they thought they might have to airlift her to the children's hospital nearby...(they made me wait 1.5 hours in the ER waiting room...all the while she kept having problems...and they got snotty with me when I asked for an ambulance to take her to the children's hospital.....boy were they sorry for that one...)

There were the missed trips to visit the in-laws, the missed date nights and all the rest....

and then......

The sun came out....and now they aren't sick anymore like that..so there is a light at the end of the tunnel...

[davsand]

13. 1.5 hours in the ER waiting room and I have been chewing rump roast.

If my kid is sick enough to take to the ER you can bet that I'm gonna be chewing on somebody's backside if I take her in and they blow me off.


Oh man, bleedingheart, I got pissed just READING that one.


She's singing with Sponge Bob and Squid ward right now--thankfully she's not THAT sick! She's just got a cold and shouldn't be out and about right now.

If I thought it was serious stuff I'd probably never post snarkiness about missing a dinner--ya know? You helped put it in perspective.


Laura