Well, when you’re still puking four days after a supposed bout with motion sickness, it is something more severe. Last night (Monday) Kaia started coughing just after he’d fallen asleep and then puked up another large quantity of goo. This was made all the more worse by an outbreak of hives all over his body that was (as hives can truly be) very disturbing to look at. We took him to the doctor’s today and it seems like he’s got a stomach virus. In some ways, I’m actually happy that this is what it is as it can be cured whereas acute motion sickness cannot so much. Of course, he is likely susceptible to becoming ill in challenging driving and boating situations, but he’ll be OK, I think. So, while we ended up canceling our trip based on a wrong diagnosis, the fact that he’s got a stomach virus, affirms that there was no way we could have traveled. So, it is five days of an awfully bitter antibiotic, accompanied by an anti-nausea, an antihistamine, zinc and a ‘good’ bacteria powder to help with the, oh yeah I forgot to mention, diarrhea. Hey, it could be worse—we could be in Darjeeling, cold and stressed as Kaia continues vomiting and we desperately search for a doctor…did I say how much I love being in Chennai right now, 100 degree heat and all?
Why I Love this Time: Being home for an illness, as being away, there’s nothing worse.
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