Im so stressed tonight

**Nana2two** · 02-20-2009, 12:42 AM

I have my grandsons tonight, daughter and her hubs is in the resturant buisness and she works on Thursday night Fri morn,so they spend the night with us. Then Sat night To Sunday Morning. Well i think they have both come down with Croup. they both sound like seals. The 17m has a fever, the 5 year old got a fever and dirreha.Just got the 17 m down. I ready to pull my hair out.Im just getting over upper respitory infection.So im still kinda blah. My daughter is going to call the doctor in the morning and see if she can get them in.When you dont have little ones anymore, sometimes it can get stressfull. Sorry i had to vent.

**Karla** · 02-20-2009, 01:10 AM

Take a deep breath...you are right after the kids are grown and the little ones come along its altogether different. I watch 2 of my dgd's, and have since birth. Sometimes its wonderful and other times man am I beat...Oh well love them anyway!!
Try and get some rest yourself.

**Nana2two** · 02-20-2009, 01:32 AM

Thanks Karla!

**phoeny_moonstar** · 02-20-2009, 01:54 AM

And I hope your grandchildren get better soon as well!!

**Momto2Boyz** · 02-20-2009, 07:29 AM

I know exactly what cough you are talking about. It's no fun for the kids and no fun to listen too, when you can't do anything to help them.

Caring for sick kids is physically and mentally draining, especially if you aren't used to doing it!

I hope they feel better soon, and I hope you get rested up today and can find a way to de-stress!

**cmdarlin** · 02-20-2009, 07:58 AM

I get so stressed out taking care of the one year old even when he is not sick. Its been 22 years since I had a baby around. I'm old and wore down now. I love having him around but it takes it all out of me. I hope you and the babies get to feeling better soon!

Debbie

**Darlene** · 02-20-2009, 08:16 AM

Stress for sure. I'm sure their parents are grateful for all you do and the little ones for having you in their lives caring for them. Hope time goes quickly & everyone is feeling better soon.

**Patty A** · 02-20-2009, 08:27 AM

Its a great stress relief sometimes just to turn loose and let it go!
I guess we forget how hard it is to take care of little ones once we are away form it for awhile. I so understand why you are stressed, it hard to watch those little ones when things go well, and then throw a sickness in on top of you being sick and oh man talk about over-load!

I hope you are feeling better! And that the little ones are soon feeling normal again soon!

**Nana2two** · 02-20-2009, 10:54 AM

Thanks everyone. I fell asleep at 5am im back up and papa took them home, mom called off work today to take them to the doctor..Makes this worse my neice died 3 years ago on Feb 17 at the age 5. she had a cold turned out be the flu, she fluid around her heart and just calapsed... My grandson is 5 and last night he said his whole heart hurt, im thinking

he was talk about his chest from coughing, then he said his body hurt all over. Im thinking he as the flu.

**MOMMYDEAREST** · 02-21-2009, 01:38 PM

I totally understand. You would of really been going bonkers @ my house about 3-4 weeks ago. I had all 7 kids home sick....it was horrible! And my husband got mandatoried to work 12 hr days.....it was complete caos! Hope your grandkids feel better soon, it totally sucks having sick kids!

**MomToTwoBoys** · 02-21-2009, 02:52 PM

Oh my!

I get all frazzled when my kids are sick too and especially when they have surgery. It's so completely nerve wracking! They barely get sick but when they do, it's huge. YDS had eye surgery a couple weeks back and at the same time, ODS had a cold that turned into a bacterial infection. It was really hard on a lot of us.

I hope they get better and you keep getting better too!