Kids sure have the capacity to scare the shit out of you, don’t they?

Thank you for the well wishing, it seems to have helped. Shelagh remarked in the comments to the previous post, “I’m sure she’ll be finding ways to embarass you horribly again soon.”, and she was right. You know the cartoons where someone accidentally brings a monkey, or lively space-alien, back to a suburban home and it bounces off the walls and generally takes the place apart? That image flashed through my mind when I got to the hospital after work, because Gamma was doing everything except swinging from the bar over her bed, and that only because she was too short to reach it. She was looking mighty genki, as they say in Japanese. Although, to our credit, she did have purple rings under her eyes.

She’d had a fever the previous night, and head and stomach aches, and vomited in the morning. We’d rather take her in one time too often (or a dozen times) than not go in the time we should have. This is why I’m all for nationalized cheap health care, because I’m sure there are people who can’t afford to take their kids in. Anyway. By the time Alpha got her into the hospital, noonish, she was feeling better. No encephalitis. No fever. Good appetite. The results of the blood test for Lymes will be here in two weeks, so she’s still on the antibiotics. She does have some infection, they just don’t know what yet. They gave her a chest x-ray to see if she has pneumonia. Negative.

The nurses and doctors were sort of looking at her, bouncing around, and at us, like, You guys worry a lot? And we were like, You should’ve seen her last night! Seriously!

Anyway. We now return to our original programming.