Lurgies
I got ill on Christmas Day. One of those things where various diseases have been floating around me all autumn, including Pob having multiple colds, but it takes being on holiday for me to get ill with one of them. I've been in bed on and off since the end of Boxing Day, just managing to drag myself into the shower yesterday morning when I couldn't stand it any more. I stretched to doing a load of laundry, one sink of dishes and emptying the dishwasher after my shower before collapsing back onto the sofa. Poor H has been on single parent duty, although we managed to get my mum over to help today and she was great - looking after me as well as Pob, bringing soup and magazines and delicious juices, and making the bed for me. H is pretty good at single parenting but less good at knowing how to look after me - he hasn't even felt up to cooking, which is his usual care-giving role in our family. I think it's end-of-year ennui for him.
The lurgy has meant we skipped on our usual trip to the cold north for New Year. I am sorry, but I couldn't face the travel - it's really a long way and not a straight forward journey. I don't think this will be a banner New Year for us - H has bought a lovely bit of steak to cook tomorrow, but I don't have a big appetite right now and it will just be the two of us with sadly no fireworks over the bay to look forward to. No doubt I'll be in bed at 10. Which is fine, just a little bit of an anti-climax. I wanted to have a lovely break as a family, so this is a lot less fun.
I'll be 13 weeks tomorrow. Hard to credit that things are going ok. I know I shouldn't write that, as cue for disaster, but this is really pretty uneventful so far.
More interesting posts to follow I hope as I start feeling a bit more human again.
Sorry to hear you're not feeling well. I hope you're back on your feet soon. Rest.
Posted by: Angela | Wednesday, 31 December 2008 at 00:21
I hope you are feeling better soon!
Posted by: My Reality | Wednesday, 31 December 2008 at 00:33
Wishing you a speedy recovery . . .
Posted by: beagle | Wednesday, 31 December 2008 at 01:44
Take care of yourself Thalia and I always think New Years is overrated anyway. I'm thinking that 2009 is a year for you to look forward to (not that 2008 and seeing Pob growing was too shabby either).
DinoD
Posted by: DinoD | Wednesday, 31 December 2008 at 01:55
Happy New Year!
Now go back to bed.
Posted by: daysgoby | Wednesday, 31 December 2008 at 02:49
I have been sick so often this pregnancy...I'm hoping you escape a similar fate. Even now that I'm not sick, however, I still plan to be asleep by 10pm on NYE.
I hope you feel better! :)
Posted by: motel manager | Wednesday, 31 December 2008 at 03:23
Get well soon!
Bea
Posted by: Bea | Wednesday, 31 December 2008 at 11:27
Feel better soon! If it helps, Sarge will be out doing a youth event tonight and I'll be alone at home. I'll probably be in bed by 9:30. You'r enot the only one who will have a bland New Year!
Posted by: Flicka | Wednesday, 31 December 2008 at 12:56
Get better soon!
Posted by: Amelie | Wednesday, 31 December 2008 at 16:04
Hope you are feeling more like yourself soon. 13 weeks is a great milestone! Happy new year!
Posted by: Nikole Sarvay | Thursday, 01 January 2009 at 01:30
Uggh - sorry you are ill. This winter's lurgies have been particularly virulent. Hope you are now on the mend.
Posted by: Betty M | Thursday, 01 January 2009 at 17:33
Hope you're feeling better soon - 13 weeks! Congrats!
Posted by: T | Thursday, 01 January 2009 at 17:39
Thalia,
Hope you're starting to feel a bit better. Happy 2009.
Thank you for stopping by my blog and giving such good advice to my friend R. I have passed it along. She is 29 weeks now as of yesterday and holding steady.
Congrats on getting to 13 weeks "uneventfully." Fingers crossed that things stay that way!
All the best,
Mo
Posted by: Mo and Will | Thursday, 01 January 2009 at 22:22
Hope you are feeling much better Thalia, and that 2009 is a bountiful and hapy one for you and your family. Yay for 13 weeks and many more! xx
Posted by: OvaGirl | Friday, 02 January 2009 at 02:09
Hope the lurgy goes very very fast. Damn that lurgy anyway. Very glad the first 13 weeks have been 'unevenful'. Uneventful is good. Fingers crossed for another 30ish weeks of uneventful.
Posted by: May | Saturday, 03 January 2009 at 19:51
Hope you are feeling better now!
Posted by: Soralis | Sunday, 04 January 2009 at 06:36
I got sick 2 days after Christmas, it was awful. Stomach flu and a horrific cold all at once. Hope you are feeling better and Happy New Years.
Posted by: Kimmer | Monday, 05 January 2009 at 01:33
ugh, hope you're feeling better!!
Posted by: sarah | Monday, 05 January 2009 at 17:07
Congratulations on the good-news NT scan. So happy to hear that all has gone well so far. Happy New Year!
Posted by: ms. planner | Thursday, 08 January 2009 at 03:46
Hi Thalia,
I finally came out of blog hiding and I am overjoyed to see that you are pregnant again! In fact, I am shocked (and so happy) to see how many of us (yup, me too) are pregnant for the second time. I hope that things continue to go in the right direction and that your bringing home a new bundle of joy in the summer. All the best!!
Posted by: just another jenny | Thursday, 08 January 2009 at 21:49
I'm sorry to hear you aren't feeling well ... but CONGRATULATIONS!!! I am so happy to hear your good news :)
Posted by: Andie | Friday, 09 January 2009 at 01:54
Sorry you're not feeling well - but yay! 13 weeks!
Posted by: April | Friday, 09 January 2009 at 19:51
I hope all is well with you. Glad things are good so far, hope you're all recvered from Xmas lurgy.
Posted by: Isabel | Tuesday, 13 January 2009 at 05:25