progress

Rachel succeeded in doing all of the monkey bars!  Her goal is now to do the whole circle of monkey bars at school.  she can do half the circle right now.  She's done the so much that she now has a blister...she says, "but I try to ignore it."   Ignoring pain is not one of her strong suits, so you KNOW she's determined about this.

In other news, I found out yesterday that I have an ear infection in both ears and a sinus infection.  It all started last week when I started feeling dizzy.  It happened off and on, but many times throughout the day, and it wouldn't go away.  Really frustrating.  Then on Saturday my face started hurting and was super tender in my cheeks.  Then Sunday I felt lots of pressure inside my head.  The weird thing is that I didn't have a stuffy nose, cold, cough, sore throat, sore ears, or anything like that.  Strange.  The dizziness has been the worst thing.  The doctor said I should feel better starting tomorrow,  on the medicine, so we'll see.  I felt a tiny bit better today, so hopefully I'm on the upswing.

But Rebecca is now getting sick.  This morning she sneezed a couple of times.  I dropped her off at my friend, Emily's house, where she goes on the days I work, and when I came to pick her up, her face was a mess, and I could tell she had been wiping her snotty nose over and over, all over her face, so it had obviously progressed from sneezes to stuffy/runny nose (I'm sorry, Emily!  I honestly didn't know when dropped her off, that she was full of germs...it was just a sneeze or two this morning!)  so I brought her home, put her down for her nap, and 45 minutes later she woke up (she usually sleeps about two hours, sometimes more), crying her head off, gasping for air, unable to breathe because she had so much phlegm in her throat.  She threw up/spit up the junk in her throat, all over her pillow, I ushered her in the bathroom, and she did it again all over the floor. But at least after that she was able to breathe.  I was able to get her to calm down.  It was gross and scary at the same time.  We'll see how she sleeps tonight....