I have an 18 month old who goes to daycare 3 days a week. Up until a year ago I was rarely sick. Maybe once every 2 years on average and I worked around a lot of people. I think I had a pretty strong immune system overall. Since my daughter started day care it's been sickness after sickness after sickness for 10 months straight. She brings it home, spreads it to us, repeat. Hand foot and mouth, Covid, upper respiratory and chest infections (so many), flus, colds, everything.
Recently the entire household was sick with a combo of Covid and then chest infections. We finally started getting over it and had about 5 days of everyone being recovered and healthy and then bang, she has a high fever and a cough. She's sick again and 3 days later spread it to me so now I'm wrecked again too. I seriously don't know how I can even keep working like this. I'm constantly exhausted, brain foggy, and struggle to focus on my work. Even worse is I can't just rest and recover because she's up coughing, crying and restless all night. My wife also works so it's not like she can just do it 24/7. I got maybe 3 hours of sleep last night and my brain is totally fried today, I just can't think or function or work. I don't think we've had more than 2-3 weeks straight in the last year without some sort of cold, infection or illness of some sort. This is on top of the normal issues toddlers can get like teething pain, sleep regression, etc.
It's an absolute fucking nightmare and we can't take her out of daycare because we can't afford one of us not working at the moment. I seriously don't know what I'm going to do because I doubt I'll still have a job if this keeps up at this rate. How do people manage this????
Recently the entire household was sick with a combo of Covid and then chest infections. We finally started getting over it and had about 5 days of everyone being recovered and healthy and then bang, she has a high fever and a cough. She's sick again and 3 days later spread it to me so now I'm wrecked again too. I seriously don't know how I can even keep working like this. I'm constantly exhausted, brain foggy, and struggle to focus on my work. Even worse is I can't just rest and recover because she's up coughing, crying and restless all night. My wife also works so it's not like she can just do it 24/7. I got maybe 3 hours of sleep last night and my brain is totally fried today, I just can't think or function or work. I don't think we've had more than 2-3 weeks straight in the last year without some sort of cold, infection or illness of some sort. This is on top of the normal issues toddlers can get like teething pain, sleep regression, etc.
It's an absolute fucking nightmare and we can't take her out of daycare because we can't afford one of us not working at the moment. I seriously don't know what I'm going to do because I doubt I'll still have a job if this keeps up at this rate. How do people manage this????
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