Sympathy … or not

May 7, 2007 by Barbara.

I’ve got that labrynthitis thing again. At the hotel on Sunday, I had Ken help Reid to the bathroom after she had asked me to take her. Reid cried and carried on. This morning the dizziness was even more severe. I tried to carry Reid to the bathroom but after three steps, I was weaving so badly that I put her down. She cried and pushed at me and I fell over - no balance and weak, that was me. I tried explaining that I was sick and dizzy, like when she rolls down a hill but it didn’t make much of an impression. Finally, I suggested that Reid could crawl with me to the bathroom. She stopped crying at that. The problem was that Reid thought she should be able to ride on my back while I crawled. Daddy had to intervene to pull her off of my back.

I managed to help Reid get dressed while Ken showered. It helps that she can do most of the getting dressed on her own. Of course, it wasn’t a brief process - Reid decided that today she needed an undershirt, turtleneck and second long-sleeve shirt over that. We had to nix the two pairs of socks as they won’t fit inside her shoes. It was 19 Celsius or 66 Fahrenheit. Ken made some joke with the daycare teachers to make sure that they knew that we didn’t dress her and that they could remove layers as seemed appropriate. I’d have done the same thing.

Posted in Mama, Daddy, Uncategorized | Print | 1 Comment »