The Third Law of Maternal Dynamics
Illness can be neither created nor destroyed, it can only be transferred.
In layman’s terms, if you mock the barf gods by noting your good fortune in having been spared their most recent visitation, they will make you pay. And pay hard.
I honestly thought I’d dodged this particular bullet. In fact, I was so sure that I was in the clear that, once it looked like the Zen Baby was well and truly on the road to recovery, I sent The Ladies to my mom’s for the night and went ahead with my original plan to go out for dinner and a movie with The Man I Didn’t Marry. And I was fine. Maybe a little tired, but we both put that down to my extended stint as Florence Nightengale, not the onset of the plague.
So, um, sorry about that, MIDM. The puking and moaning that are probably tearing their way through your house right now? Totally my bad.
On the upside–if there can be an upside to repeated attempts to catch a glimpse of your own liver–I at least didn’t barf all over the sheets. Thank goodness, because I don’t think I could have handled the laundry room on top of everything else. At least this way, in between visits to worship at the altar of the porcelain god I was able to lose myself in the sweet unconsciousness that can only come from freshly washed sheets.
Comment by Anna
NOTHING sucks worse than being sick when you’re a single mom…all you want to do is curl up and pass out from the cold medicine…but you have a little one who still needs you. Hope you feel better quick…yeah for clean sheets!
Posted on December 9, 2007 at 5:30 pm
Comment by Shayna
Aww, sorry you didn’t escape the plague. In other news, Congrats! You’re done…with a certain odious, stressful job/blog/thing! I am still holding out hope for the “real” job that you’ve been waiting on. I know you really want and deserve it!
Posted on December 9, 2007 at 5:42 pm
Comment by Trysha
Hope you feel better…and glad I found your “new” space. I hadn’t checked in on “sanity” in a long while and I was wondering about the change over to the daily mom format. I’ll be changing some bookmarks around!
Yay for clean sheets!!
Posted on December 9, 2007 at 8:24 pm
Comment by SweetyPi
Well congrats on the clean sheet thing
I guess that’s better then a kick in the ass when you’re sick. As for not dodging the bullet that is this season’s flu..Nothing but sympathy. We’ve yet to endure the pukefest, but rest assured, you won’t be alone. Just try to leave the nasty one down there with you. I’ll deal with our particularly nasty strain that is the “college” flu. Didn’t their parent’s ever tell them that it does help to wash their hands..ick.
Posted on December 10, 2007 at 4:35 pm
Comment by landismom
Ugh! Sounds deeply unpleasant. Glad to hear you got the clean-sheets experience.
Posted on December 10, 2007 at 8:54 pm