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Right now I'm supposed to be on my first date with wcg in, oh, more than a year. We should be finishing up a delicious and leisurely dinner at the Helmand - I probably would have ordered the korma mahi, which is what I always get: sea bass stewed in ginger with sun-dried baby grapes, mint, tomatoes and red potatoes. We might be trying to decide whether there was time for Afghan ice cream (with dates, figs, mango, and coriander) or whether we ought to head up to the theater and grab seats for the play.

Instead, I am at home with a sick baby and a sick husband. Michael came home early from gaming last night, grey-faced and vomiting. We figured it was food poisoning until Alex developed diarrhea today. Now I suspect that a stomach virus is working its way through the family, and so I have developed an addictive, and hopefully preventative, attachment to hand sanitizer.

Michael, at least, is on the mend and keeping fluids down. But he's still dehydrated. He wasn't even feeling well enough to watch Alex for ten minutes while I ran to the drugstore for Pedialyte and lactose-free formula, so I had to stuff the sick baby into her snowsuit and haul her along. In the rain. She's been clingy and whiny all day, but doesn't seem as sick as she was with the last episode, before Thanksgiving. I've decided to take her completely off formula for 24 hours and then use the lactose-free stuff for a couple of days, and hope that that will give her sad little gut the rest that it needs.

The theater wouldn't let me trade our tickets in for another date, so Bill is going to go by himself. In a few minutes I'm going to go downstairs and tackle the dirty dishes and bottles that have been piling up all day, not to mention the heaps of toys strewn over every inch of the living room.

I'm well aware that, of the members of my family, I am currently the best off. But somehow that knowledge isn't enough to keep me from feeling sorry for myself tonight.

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[minnaleigh.livejournal.com]

That well and truly sucks.