This week

Insert in eyesocket.

I can't take much more of this

sick kid parenting.

Please let tomorrow be better.

For my son's health

and for my own mental health.

The.

End.

A sick kid will totally harsh your mellow

Things are not better. In fact, they are worse. The nurse warned me that the day after surgery was the best (he was awesome) but now each day is getting suckier and suckier for Rhys.

Here's what's going on:

• The scabs are getting thicker, and he can hardly talk


• He is tired of drinking all the time


• Drinking all the time makes him pee in his pants


• He gets sad when he pees in his pants


• Poops are also super gross since the most substantial food he has had for 2 days is cheese and jello


• Did I mention he is sad?


• When he does talk it sounds like he's a munchkin with 30 marshmellows stuck in his cheeks


• He's spiked a low grade fever


• He has told me some of the things that happened to him during the surgery (ie the clamp things they put on his mouth to stretch it "like this" and they touched his face, he acts it out for me, on me) and I'm pretty sure he's not fibbing.


• It is possible he was awake for some of this? Is that what I get for asking the anesthesisiologist if he was good?


• His swollen lips and sores in the sides of his mouth


• He hates his medicine


• He just woke up crying and wouldn't let me pick him up, he's so sad


• When he drinks sometimes it shoots out his nose and he gets very sad and confused


• My happiest boy in the world is sad

Send prayers and happy thoughts our way. I can hardly take this anymore. I know this will help in the long run, but I kind of want to punch his doctor in the face.

PS - His nurse in recovery gave me the title of this post.