On the Merry Go Round

              So, we are almost into the second week of December and Feisty Pants isn't sick.  Except maybe she is.  But she probably isn't. AHHHHH.  Let me explain. The weather has gotten warm again here in the Southern Tier of New York. (WTF UNIVERSE!?!? It's frigging DECEMBER.  How many snow dances do I have to do in the backyard?)  So it is now in the high 40's during the day. Warm enough to destroy my mood and create a ton of mildew.   So Feisty Pants is a tad on the goopy side. (Read that as snotty and sniffly)  BUT her sat rates are fantastic and she has no fever. But Feisty Pants seems slightly off somehow. But she is mostly fine.  BUT Goo and Hippie Pants have spent the weekend complaining they don't feel good.  Not really "sick"  sick, mind you.  Just cranky and achy and sniffly. And they have the chills and are both complaining of fatigue.   But no coughs or fever or nausea.  But Feisty Pants went to sleep yesterday at 6pm and slept all night until this morning at 7 am.  And is slightly cranky.  But she has no fever and her sat rates (a measure of oxygen in the blood) are fantastic.  But we are gonna sit around and stare at her and worry.  Which is just annoying her and making her cranky. (Are you sensing a theme here?)

                And this is my dilemma.  I have gotten pretty good at handling crises.  (Just plow through it, suck down coffee, fall apart later when you have the luxury of time)   I am good rolling with the ups and downs. (I am TOO.  I don't care what Goo tells you.)  I just am unsure on how to handle the little things.  It's probably nothing.  Either their allergies are just simply stressing out their bodies and making the three of them  a misery, ummm er, I mean miserable or it's a minor virus. (unless it is a curse but we haven't pissed off any wandering gypsy witches lately that I know of...)   So I guess we are just riding this out.  But after having lived through a lot of storms, I now jump at the sound of thunder as it were.

                 Feisty Pants is, at this very moment, bitching up a storm.  Everything is annoying her and her hair hurts.  And her toenails.  And her eyebrows.   But she has a severe scoliosis that causes her pain. And the cp causes fluctuating muscle tone which sometimes causes muscle cramps.  And EVERYONE in this house currently has a sinus headache. (We have given her tylenol, but it has not kicked in yet.) And she is twelve, so let's throw puberty and hormones into the grumpy mix because Goo and I need one more thing to try figure out.  But it's December and it's effing forty degrees out so she could very easily be brewing an infection right about now.   But her sat rates are good and she has no fever.  AHHHHH