Recovering.

I'm almost recovered now, aside from a slight sore throat and swollen glands still. The flu is horrible, I hope to never feel sick like that again! I ended up getting a nasty case of tonsillitis as a secondary infection, so that made it even more unpleasant.

I wish my husband were a better care taker, but he's not. He just doesn't think about stepping in to do things, and he gets cranky when "his" time is impeded by others. While I was sick I was still doing about 75% of the childcare and household duties (as opposed to my usual 90%). One night M2 had an accident while out at a restaurant - she pulled a highchair down with herself as she fell, and it smashed into her face causing her teeth to cut into her lips making a big bloody mess. She had puffy swollen lips for 2 days, and that first night she was awake crying for several hours. Who was up with her you ask? Oh, yeah, that would be me. Despite being really sick myself, I got 2 hours of sleep Monday night because I was up with either M2 or P5. Mr.P slept soundly all night.

Wednesday Mr.P started coming down with the flu just as I had, same symptoms, same progression. He crawled right into bed and didn't get up for 12 hours. I brought him Advil, juice, food. I kept the kids out of our room and out of his way. This is how it should be, when one person is sick the other should take care of them and pick up the slack with the kids.