A Catalog of Misery

Illness has been blooming like springtime in the Preecs Household—Austin Branch. The cold I brought down with me refused to give up the ghost, and I was sick with it for nearly a full week until I took a full day off work to just not do anything except recover. Of course, all of that happened AFTER the ear infection.

I don't know if it was the flight, or what have you, but I've picked up an ear infection from something and it HURTS. I can totally tell why babies cry when they get these things. It kept me up most of a night just dosing myself with handfuls of Ibuprofen and waiting for it to kick in. Not a fun time. I finally managed to get in to see a doctor who gave me some antibiotic ear drops, but my ears, despite not being painful and keeping me up at night anymore, are still really clogged. I'm waiting for them to clear, but in the meantime, my hearing is terrible. And then the day after that, my cold came back with a vengeance, at the same time Jess came down with it, so we took Tyler off to day care and both stayed home and rested, like normal sick people are supposed to do.

So for the most part we are over our illnesses, except I still can't hear anything. I can see why this would be so bad for babies to have. It's hard enough to learn English when you can hear it properly.

There are other little things to talk about, but it's mostly just been illness recovery around this house. Tyler's tooth has broken through, and he spends a lot of time clicking his teeth together and driving his parents crazy with the sounds. Fingernails and chalkboards and whatnot. We got a Kinect, and have already started burning off calories with our game. Fun times. Jess is off at hockey and I'm in charge of the little one, who is taking an early nap for a while longer. After that, I will just pinch his cute little cheeks and play with whatever happens to be around here with him. Everything is a toy!

-N