Inconvenient Annoyances

Poor kids! How rude of adults to not consider who they are infecting. I'm sorry you're having all this dumped onto your already full plate expat.

What about getting some detol spray as well to spray around it is just like Lysol in the US..may help when any coughs and kills the virus's...


I would be ready to KILLLLLLL!!!!

What does hubby say? Is he supporting you in being outraged?

Certainly NONE of this is what you need at ALL!!

{{{huggsss}}}

Roisin is coughing.   :\\\'(

Oh, expat....how very scary.  :\\\'(

Sending loads of healing vibes your direction....

So sorry to hear the kiddies are sick! I think you should buy a bunch of those hopsital masks and hand them out at your door in the future! Doesn't help now, though. Will send good thoughts your way! 

Just read through the last few posts...  Expat I'm sending all the good and healthy vibes I can your way.  Crossed fingers that Roisin just has a little cough and is better in the morning.

And you were ABSOLUTELY justified in banishing the in-laws for the remainder of the winter.  I can't even imagine how pi**ed off I'd be if that happened to me!  What the f**k goes through these people's heads??

Huge hugs and positive thoughts!!!

Oh dear.  I really do hope everything turns out all right, Leigh. Keep us informed if you can?

being on the phone on with dell for 18min and 43sec and still not getting to talk to a human.

I have only just read this... Expat, I hope that everyone gets well, soon. I am passing on healing vibes, your way.

I don't blame you, adults should have more common sense than that! They would not be allowed to set foot in the same block, as far as I would be concerned, and I know that I would have to be the one to anforce it, but this is your baby's health. She does not have her immune system built up to fight that sort of crap off, yet.

If you see them in the near future, kick their asses!

How are they today, expat?

I went into Next to look at their sales with Courtney, I walk in the store into the womens section and there were hangers,clothes,boots all over the floor I had to move the stuff just to push my pram, and ,the women there wouldn't budge as I was trying to get pass them ..they were acting like I was gonna see a top they might like.It was like feeding time at a zoo!. I finally managed to get to the elevator to get upstairs where mens and childrens clothes were...and it was spotless up there,the mens section was so much cleaner then the womens lol when I got back downstairs they yet again wouldn't let me pass..so I just hit them with my pram 

Aillidh's off to the doctor's at 5.40.  Andrew's taking her.  She's been up since 3AM coughing.  She drank two 10 oz. cups of water+juice in the night, but that's it.  Still refusing to swallow anything, including ANY medication.  No ice lollies, no ice cream.  Nada.  I even tried putting Calpol on a dummy and she rejected it.

She cannot sleep.  She has been in her bed all day, whimpering 'Night night' over and over and coughing a dry, hacking cough.  The fever's away.  But she needs checked out b/c I think her throat is just beyond raw now.  It's pitiful.  I hope they can give her something to help her sleep, b/c she's so obviously exhausted by this.

To deliberately expose a child to something that nasty.  That's going to stick with me, I can tell you.

Roisin, well, we're still holding our breath with her. 

PLEASE keep the good vibes coming for her.  She's SO tiny.  I'm anxious as it is but to imagine what this could do to a newborn baby.  I don't want to even go there!

aww hon. Hopefully the doctors will be able to treat her.
What does your FIL say? Is he taking the blame?

Expat Im so sorry she isnt well. I cant believe she is still so sick!! Its good she is taking fluids though. Please let us know what the doc says. xx

Fingers and toes crossed, Leigh. Keep us posted!

Is there anything we can do to your FIL on your behalf? 

aww hon. Hopefully the doctors will be able to treat her.
What does your FIL say? Is he taking the blame?

I phoned MIL yesterday, b/c I thought playgroup was on today and I wanted her to know Aillidh wouldn't be coming b/c I wouldn't dream of exposing young children to this - plus at lot of the mums there are now pregnant or have young babies. 

She completely fobbed me off.  She said, 'Mind you, all the kids up the road have runny noses.'  Um, does my daughter hang around the kids up her road?  Don't think so!  In fact, my daughter has been around NO other children since Roisin was born, b/c all the playgroups went on Xmas break and she missed the last ones b/c we were too knackered to make it.  We haven't even been to a mall or taken her to church, fgs!  Teh only places she's been are parks and other open spaces like that.  Accepting the two times FIL hacked all over her.  But that was okay b/c he wasn't coming near the baby?  Thanks a lot!  Just make a small child terribly ill and possibly her newborn sister as well.  This type of s*it could REALLY damage a newborn.

And she hasn't got a runny nose.  She's got a nasty chest cough thanks to him.  I've been up since she woke and haven't left the flat at all.

She's still moaning away in her cot in between cough spasms. 

I hope the doctor can help her somehow, b/c she needs some sleep.