I never thought that so many things can go wrong at the same time! Sam’s got body rash (red dots all over his back and front) which Dr couldn’t understand, since no anti-allergic worked… no fever (which occurs in case of measles)…. no itching! (we applied calamine and it is working!) Then he got lose stools probably because he’s teething and puts every (dirty) thing in his mouth… no respite from last 5 days… poor soul, has been doing it every hour and is surely getting irked by all this.

I had been working round the clock to make sure that Sam doesn’t get dehydrated… so gave him plenty of home-made fluids as well as ORS (oral rehydration soln) frequently. I made him have all the possible things  like lemon-aide, lassi, juice, khichdi, curd, coconut water, ORS, watery fruits like melon… of course along with all the anti-biotics that he’s been taking, but nothing helped him stop the lose-motion! But thankfully the DR said that he doesn’t look dehydrated for the reason that you are giving him plenty of liquids… keep giving until it settles down. Will take another few days….

Besides preparing and giving him liquid diet, I got exhausted taking him to the loo every hour, washing , cleaning, changing diapers! and to make matters worse, my maid left the work!!! I don’t know when will this phase end or how long will it last! I felt like fainting after doing the house-hold work also….

while doing all this, I slipped in the washroom with Sam in my lap … :( no major injury though! but Sam got scared and I was too frustrated to hold back my tears… but when he saw me crying (probably for the first time) he immediately stopped crying and came to me ad touched my cheeks with his two little hands …. Ahhh … only you can understand my condition, son!

and today morning, he pulled out my laptop charger, put in his mouth and got electric shock! nothing can get worse than this I am sure…. but this too shall pass ….