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11/25/2005
Sickness
My first proper posting is going to be a biographical whinge.
At the start of this week my family was hit by a vomit-bug. First the three year old, then the baby and me and then my wife while the baby was still sick, with the three year old chiming in with the occasional vomit on the bedclothes long after we thought she had recovered.
The worst thing for me was that I was still recovering when my wife became sick and so I immediately had to start looking after the other three. To say that it was stressful and tiring doesn't do it. I was on the run all day and then spent about two hours trying to get a crying and distraught baby to sleep before I could go to bed and then there was the usual thing of waking for nappy changes and on top of that the three three year old threw up on her bed sheets around midnight.
Did I mention that I was stll feeling queasy through all this (still am as a matter of fact). I was a bit grouchy.
Oh yes, the other thing is that the baby is refusing to eat solids now and since it is 10kg and living soley on milk my wife is exhausted and it's compromising her ability to recover.
When you have small children there are constant reminders, like this, of the insanity of the nuclear family. The silliest thing of all is that despite being in need of help we didn't ask for any because we didn't want to pass the bug onto anyone else. This sense of isolation is exactly what is wrong with our present way of living and it's why I want to be in a village setting where help is automatic.
The other thing that is bugging me is that this is the third vomiting bug that has hit us in the last 6 months (it's the first to get me personally) and I've lost track of how many times our three year old has come home with a cold this winter. Some of the other parents in town say that they expect their pre school kids to get sick 20 times durng the winter.
Something is seriously wrong with this picture. Older parents say it never used to be like this and I certainly don't recall this level of sickness. I'm wondering if two generations of vaccinatons could have destroyed all our inherited immunity or if the amount of junk food that children (not ours though) eat these days is part of the cause. Maybe it's something crazy like chemtrails or the effects fo two generations of flouride in the water. I'm going to ask Jon who is the editor of Uncensored magazine. He's always good for an opinion on these matters. It's a worry though.
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