{"id":1589,"date":"2008-02-03T21:44:04","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T03:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/2008\/sick-days\/"},"modified":"2008-02-03T21:44:04","modified_gmt":"2008-02-04T03:44:04","slug":"sick-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/2008\/sick-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Sick days"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve had a few sick days over here at Boyds’ Nest. Lucy came down with some kind of stomach bug on Friday morning, just after we had a half-foot of snow fall on Chicago. But we didn’t suffer too badly — and who wants to leave the house in that weather anyway? <\/p>\n

Jon was away at meetings, so the unfortunate task of washing barfy sheets fell solely to Mama. But even that wasn’t too bad, as we are well-stocked with Shout and lots of hand sanitizer. Lucy and I canceled our outings (sadly missing a greatly anticipated overnight with Grammie and Grandpa Boyd), made some jello, and snuggled up to watch videos. This was Lucy’s introduction to the wonderful world of the “PowerPuff Girls”:http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00004W1ZX\/octothorppres-20. Judging from these photos, do you think she liked it? —continues—<\/span><\/p>\n

Sick days<\/p>\n

Lucy was relatively happy and energetic, despite her intestinal malady, so I just tried to give her as many fluids as possible and not worry. But it was a relief to have Jon home yesterday. We missed the Papa!<\/p>\n

After a marathon 14-hour-sleep last night, Lucy seems to be pretty much recovered — she woke up calling for water and requesting buttered graham crackers. Later in the day, I called Jon on his cell phone to joyfully report a “normal poop” (but isn’t it only mothers of newborns who do that? it was a real blast from the past). I felt like I should be in a Biblical parable — “the woman who nursed her sick toddler, then rejoiced when her child had a normal bowel movement.” I’m just grateful for the way God made our bodies and immune systems, and I’m glad that Lucy’s seems to be functioning well!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’ve had a few sick days over here at Boyds’ Nest. Lucy came down with some kind of stomach bug on Friday morning, just after we had a half-foot of snow fall on Chicago. But we didn’t suffer too badly — and who wants to leave the house in that weather anyway?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}