Spring Break Sickness

Ironically, Teddy got sick again this year exactly a year to the date as he did last year during spring break. Last year, his bout of RSV destroyed our spring break plans, and our spirits to be honest, because we had to cancel our flights and hotels. This year we had no big plans, so his crud only ruined his spring break and mildly messed up our adult plans for work and visits with grandparents. Thankfully, AJ still got 2 sleepovers and 3 visits with friends, plus a super fun escape room camp. I'm glad his fun wasn't hampered by the crud. 

Also, I'm grateful Teddy weathered his weeklong illness with no seizures. He had a pretty toasty fever of 102, and he weathered it overall well. He wasn't so miserable that he was trying to climb out of his skin, no vomiting (which for some odd reason makes him want to strip naked ahead of time?) and no hives. All in all, he handled it extremely well. Sometimes we forget to be grateful for these blessings.

He's the happiest sick kid you can imagine sometimes.

To be fair, it's a bit harder to be grateful when he passes the nastiness to me, and I realize just how miserable he was. It knocked me out of running for a full week (and it's still a wee bit hard to breath), but thankfully I'm on the very tail end of it with just occasional coughs. This allows me to be fully present for the Wisconsin Autism Conference, which is great learning opportunity for me.

With an extremely rare genetic disorder, there's minimal research and resources for PIGN and CDG, though our small community is strong and extremely helpful. With his autism diagnosis last year, it was almost overwhelming the amount of resources and learning opportunities that exist.