stresskitten

I have a pedometer from school (part of the active-schools initiative).

According to Google, people are encouraged to walk about 10'000 steps a day. A sedentary person would walk about 1000-3000 steps a day.

On an average day as a teacher - not trying to increase the amount I'm walking - I'm at 9700.

The joys of being a teacher, being on your feet, and being on the go every day. Sit down? What is this sit down thing you speak of?

This explains why I tend to lose weight when I'm working full time regularly. *grins*

I am being a good citizen and a cruel mother. :-/

Got a call a while ago from the hospital where Rhys was born. They are doing a study on the influenza vaccine and babies and wanted to know if I was willing to have Rhys participate. I, after talking with Frazer, said yes. Interestingly, the woman who called up asked me to talk it over with Rhys' father and let her know... I think it's the first person contacting me about Rhys who automatically included Frazer in the discussion.

So tomorrow we go to the hospital. Rhys will be measured, weighed, and given a general check-up. Then they will take blood, then give him a dose of the influenza vaccine. I will be getting my vaccination at the same time. I take him home, take his temperature for the next week and document any side effects, then bring him back several weeks later when they will take some more of his blood to measure the level of antibodies there. A few weeks after that, he gets his second dose of vaccine, and a few weeks after that he gets another set of blood tests and his 18 month vaccinations (which we have delayed a little longer in order to take part in this study).

The purpose of the study is to see if there is a significant difference in the immunity imparted by the standard 1/2 dose of vaccine that they give babies and a 1/4 dose of the vaccine. It is a blind study, so I will not know which dose Rhys is getting, since they won't either.

I think vaccination is important... and while this is for the flu vaccine, the results might well inform all vaccination efforts, so I will gladly participate. This does mean poking my son full of holes, but I will find some way to make this up to him. Much movie-watching and waving and kisses and saying hi to Ysabelle.

For the Record: Food poisoning sucks.

It really sucks when both you and your husband have it at the same time. Thankfully, Rhys seems to have dodged the bullet... but looking after an 18-month-old while you're puking your guts up and weak as a kitten is not fun. We just played Pixar's Cars over and over again... since he will quite happily sit there are watch that non-stop.

I'm about to try food for the first time in 24 hours... and a cup of coffee to see if that'll get rid of the gods-awful headache I've had for the past day on top of the general grossness of food poisoning.

Ugh... I'm feeling better, but so, so weak. Rhys is at daycare... I'm probably going to go back to bed soon.

I want Rhys to break these teeth. Because until he does, it would appear that he's having the typical diaper issues that occur with teething.

Poor little guy. Waking up screaming because of the pain/discomfort is a bad thing. Thank gods for vaseline and baby powder.