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Pumpkinhead is sick. Wildly, messily sick. AGAIN. I can recall maybe a handful of times that I had stomach bugs as a kid. With Pumpkinhead, it’s a regular occurrence. I don’t think it’s a stomach virus because he’s only been vomiting every 2-3 hours. He’s super congested and coughing so I think it may be an ear or sinus infection. He swears his ears aren’t hurting, though. So now I’ve spent the day alternating clean-up, Pedialyte dosing and trying to decide whether it’s worth a trip to urgent care. On the one hand, I hate to spend the time and money at urgent care if it’s just a virus they can’t do anything for. On the other hand, we have to fly next weekend for vacation so I will need to eradicate an ear infection if that’s what’s going on. To make things even more complicated, if I take him to school tomorrow and he gets sent home, he will be stuck home for TWO days due to their 24-hour fever-free policy (i.e., go home at 10 a.m. and you have to be fever-free until 10 a.m. the next day but you can’t arrive after 9 a.m. so you’re stuck home until WEDNESDAY!) Ack.

This is a major working mother’s issue. Do I suck up my weekend by spending hours at urgent care with a very cranky preschooler, take one day off to be safe and get him into the pediatrician, or risk two days home if I chance it and send him to school? I hate this, especially since he looks so horribly pale but won’t tell me how he feels. I think I’ll see how he does tonight. If I’m up at 3 a.m. changing bedsheets, we’re staying home tomorrow and paying a visit to our friendly neighborhood pediatrician. Unfortunately Chapin’s job doesn’t have paid sick leave so it’s always me at home.

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