Little Rosie has angina. Angina!?! you say. Don’t worry. It isn’t that serious. She has angina po polsku. I remember the first time I heard the word angina in Poland. One of my students called me to cancel her…
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We’ve had quite an active week. The week started with a return of conjunctivitis (zapalenie spojówek) for me. It keeps coming back which has me worried, despite the fact that I followed my treatment exactly as ordered and threw…
While many of us have heard (or may believe) that drafts can cause colds, it is only in Poland that I learned drafts can kill. I would laugh it off as an individual’s idiosyncrasy except that I have heard…
Sunday, I was planning to write a post on how guilty I felt because now Rosie has chicken pox while I remained pox-free thanks to my vaccination. I even had a title in mind – “Feeling Guilty”. That post…
Lizzie, aged 4, has come down with chicken pox. This is way better than being Chris, aged 36 (37 according to my prescription) and never having had chicken pox. Not wanting to be an adult victim of this dreaded…
When your child starts school, well, Pre-school in our case, everybody tells you to expect at least a year of sick kid. What they forget to tell you is, that also means a year of sick mom. Since Lizzie…
Of all the things a parent is bound to experience with a child, we can check off an important one from our list - our first visit to the ER.…
I learned that as a first year teacher, I was bound to get ill often, and as a first year teacher starting her career on a different continent, I would get ill very often. Mutated germs, I guess. I…
My girls are sick with “the start of pneumonia” as the doctor described it. Luckily, we caught it early. It’s Lizzie’s first antibiotics – not bad for an almost 4 year old. Poor Rosie hasn’t been so lucky. That’s…
Heck, if I know. I can’t smell a thing and it has been that way for over a week. I have bronchitis (diagnosed) and I think a sinus infection (undiagnosed). The result of which is that I have a…
