Today’s snow day turned out to be a blessing because when I came out to see that my son signed into class and he looked awful. Pale and exhausted. He said he had a headache and a stomachache so I decided to test him with a home test but it came up negative. I let him sign off and explained to his teacher that he was ill so he wouldn’t be attending the rest of the day.

I went and got him chicken noodle soup, ginger ale, and orange juice. Turns out it was his stomach more than anything and he fought nausea all day. Of course I was on edge, holding a bucket ready to shove it at him at a moment’s notice! He finally ate a couple of saltines and ended up falling asleep for two hours. When he woke up he was right as rain! Bouncing around, chattering, ate his soup no problem.

He actually gets like this once every 1-2 months. It’s so weird, he feels sick and nauseous all day but then takes a long nap and then he’s fine. Oh well, at least it’s not Covid and he can go to his care program tomorrow, and I can finally return to work. Not sure if I’ll get paid for winter break now, I missed the day before, but that was an approved temporary disability claim because of my positive test.

I hope I’m not too groggy tomorrow morning.