Two Weeks To Forget

The last two weeks were not our best. First there was the SEPTA strike. SEPTA is the Philadelphia train/trolley/bus system and they went on strike two weeks ago without advance notice. We awoke on a Tuesday morning with the news that the trolley and subway Diane takes to work would not be running. This meant that I had to drive her out to Upper Darby where she would take a suburban trolley (which were still operating) to King of Prussia. Then I had to drive back into town and drop Luc off at the day care. And then continue on to New Jersey to my job. Total commute time: 1 1/2 hours. And I would have to do it all over again in the evening. And traffic was particularly heavy since SEPTA was not operating... UGH!

By Thursday things got a little better because Diane found a co-worker who lives about 15 min from us and who could give her a ride to work.

Then on Friday the day care called to say Luc had a fever and was not holding down food. So I had to leave work and take him home for the rest of the day. Apparently he had gotten a cold and was sneezing and coughing his little head off :( By Sunday night he seemed to be doing better and we thought about letting him go to day care on Monday but since the SEPTA strike was still on Diane decided to stay home and let Luc rest for one more day.

By Tuesday he was back at day care but by Wednesday we got another call saying he was very cranky, pulling on his ears and his temperature was starting to go up again. We did not have to pull him out of day care but Thursday morning when his temperature was 102.3 we decided to call our pediatrician.

We ended up taking off work and brought Luc to the doctor and discovered that while his cold had cleared up he now had two ear infections! So we got a prescription for antibiotics and I stayed home with him on Friday. The antibiotics worked quickly and by Saturday night he was already doing much better. But with Diane and I missing so much time from work we each had to work OT on Saturday... no rest for the weary.

Then just as Luc was improving Diane came down with a cold... which she is still fighting off. So she is sleeping downstairs in the living room to avoid re-infecting Luc. All of this has been going on while both of our jobs are asking us to make up missed time and to work OT. Needless to say it has been a stressful and exhausting couple weeks. But it appears the worst is behind us now and we are looking forward to Saturday, which is Luc's first birthday! We are going to a local restaurant with a bunch of friends to celebrate. Presumably we'll have plenty of photos from that to post here.

Anyway, that's it from now. Thankfully we are on the mend!