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  shaynabelle
 
09:16pm 09/12/2009  
 
mood: thankful
music: K sick breathing-sleeping beside me
Life will never, ever be as sweet as it is right now. I know that. I'm afraid of that. Afraid of how great it is now and how now is so temporary. Our parents are young, healthy, active. We are young, full of potential, bright-eyed, even, excited. Keaton is blossoming. Our jobs are ones we love and they afford us our modest lifestyle without too much financial pain. And most of the time we have the ability to slow down and enjoy what we have.

So yeah, I think life will never be as sweet as this.

Today Keaton's cold (? ear infection? sinus infection?) is as its worst yet and he just played all night with me anyway, giggling and teasing and hiding and seeking and communicating. I made an emergen-C drink with too little water so it would taste like juice. I gave him a sip and he grinned, did a little dance and signed "more." We repeated this until the drink was gone, at which point he signed "more" and I said "no more, all gone" and he shook his head "no." Then he took the cup, dramatically tilted his head back and emptied the last drop, and then walked over to me, put the cup down and walked away. That's communication right there. Incredible.

After much struggling to breathe he finally managed to nurse to sleep tonight and I just stayed holding him in my arms, rocking, thinking about how absolutely incredible he is.

I wish he'd get better. He's been congested for 3 of the last 4 weeks. I feel like we should hole up at home and let him rest but somehow we're always out and about getting things done. Maybe this weekend will be for rest.		  
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  shaynabelle
 
01:48pm 07/12/2009  
 
mood: grumpy
We went to Target this morning for a 2nd round of [more powerful] antibiotics, since Keaton's congestion and ear infections have returned.

"Here you go, ma'am, do you want to taste it?" the pharmacist asked. Huh? I did, made a face, she laughed. Strange.

"Also you should know you don't have to refrigerate this like you did the last medicine."

"I was supposed to refrigerate the other meds?" This was news.

"Yes, the medicine dies in 1-3 days if not refrigerated."

So for 10 days I forced my child to take crappy tasting, no good doing, dead medicine. Meanwhile, the ear infection remained unscathed. I feel like an ass. I HATE that he's congested again. I'm frustrated with life. I wake up every night by about 1am and I can't get back to sleep until 5. I'm beat. Why didn't someone tell me that the medicine needed to be refrigerated?		  
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  algol_galaxia
 
 

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