what did elton john say again?
I’M STILL STANDING
yah yah yah
jasper has now reached the vomitting stage of scarlet fever, and the fever has also worked itself up. today i stayed home with him (when i wasn’t taking carys to her endocrinologist appointment…for some reason the outshot of that appointment is that she needs to see an orthopaediatric surgeon) while the other three went to the beach. jasper was so feverish and disoriented after his nap, his eyes were so droopy, his manner so lethargic, all he wanted was to lie on the sofa, take the occasional sip of water and watch the wiggles. so we did. he’s my hot potato (ha ha, wiggles humour).
it’s a bit of a competition now, not even jasper vs scarlet fever, but tess vs scarlet fever. wading through kids illnesses can be like wading through depression, one step at a time. isolation isn’t much fun, but we will manage. i will probably get sick when this is all over, but until then, i’m walking down the yellow brick road, medicine and barf buckets in each hand.
(the fact that magnificent lets me have a lie in in the mornings helps tremendously)
