Life is sick these days...

Yep! Joy is sick. I am sick. My mom is sick. Sick Sick Sick!

Joy constantly has nose blocks, but this is her worst ever! She was completely breathing through her mouth. Nursing and sleeping for her has been nightmarish. The doctor prescribed a decongestant and she's slightly better since. But the girl is an absolute doll I tell you! So patient and so adjustable and smart enough to think of alternate ways of sleeping and nursing... I've had tears in my eyes more than once, and not just because of my cold!

I've caught the worst cold, cough and sore throat ever! So I'm both sick AND dumb!. (Like I needed a reason to be dumb) It's sign language all the way! Plus I've hurt myself somehow, sometime, in a very sensitive part of my body and so nursing the squirming, stuffed-nose Joy has been fist-clenching to say the least. But the best part is, she somehow KNOWS that I'm hurting. And in spite of all her troubles, every so often she looks up at me with this kind of cutesie enquiring look that speaks a thousand words... and the moment I smile at her, she smiles back, relieved, kicks her legs in happiness (ouch!) and resumes her job! Sigh...

My mom is down with fever, cold, cough, sore throat... all the works! Looks like bugs have hit the household with a vengeance. With an extra bug added to each older generation. Luckily it's not the other way round... thank God for small mercies! Guess the change of weather is to blame. (In Bangalore, we blame everything on the "weather-change". Any other reason is dismissed with a wave, however viable it may be. It's like PMS!)

Talking about the household... we were hit with an extreme high voltage surge a couple of days back. We lost the TV, water pump, UPS and the washing machine. The TV was on, but the rest were all switched off and their only misfortune was that they were plugged in at the time of the surge! It took 2 days for the pump to get replaced. One can imagine how we survived an almost waterless 2 days! The washing machine luckily is fairly new and so is covered by warranty. It should be up and running in another couple of days. The UPS is still awaiting inspection. The TV is lost to oblivion and is last on the priority list. I discovered yesterday that my cell phone charger is gone too! I was trying not to imagine the horror of living without it for a while and luckily my niece came to the rescue and loaned me her old one. What we did before the advent of internet and cell phones I just can't recollect, try as I might!

Soooooooo... that's pretty much the current state of affairs! With saturday being Joy's next immunisation day, nothing great to look forward to either! And what with my sister, younger niece and sister-in-law all being sick in different parts of the continent, all I can hope for is, the family that falls sick together, stays together!