About five days before leaving for a trip we are really looking forward to, an awful virus starting spreading itself from family member to family member.
This virus seethed its way through the most defenseless and innocent members of our family to a sloth-like pace.
I ended up taking those defenseless and innocent family members to a doctor who told me there was very little i could do on behalf of the tinies besides use her handy tongue depressors as poo scooping devices to collect feces from a horrific diaper and deposit it into a laboratory specimen canister or two.
Clad in latex gloves, I addressed a barely substantive diaper with my little wooden tool, specimen canister in hand, and I managed to fill that specimen canister just shy of the "fill to here" line before deciding I would whiff no stronger, get no closer, spy no deeper, for the sake of depositing a few more molecules of the vile in a vile.
Specimen canisters hardly ever fill at 9am, when there is plenty of time to get to the laboratory. They almost always fill at 4:45pm, when the lab closes sharply at 5, and you live precisely 15 minutes away.
Little innocents with gastrointestinal issues- well, they're still yours and you still have to love them when they decide the next best time to relieve their gastric strain is in the bathtub while you are trying to relieve their angry rashed bottoms in a soothing oatmeal bath. What's a little more meal in the oats anyway? You still need to rebathe them once you figure out how to slosh the tub to an adequate state of post-poo clean.
... but I'm sorry, what was that you were saying? About what a hard and awful day you had today? Really?? You poor thing.
Gah! You need to put a Poo Warning at the top of posts like this! I was eating.
ReplyDeletePoor babies. I hope everyone feels better soon.
Oh man! I think this just set me back from even imagining parenthood another 5 years. I will never complain again. About anything!
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