And She Forgot My Senior Discount
JellyBean is still bafflingly sick, mentally alert but unwilling to get out of bed, and reluctant to drink enough fluids. I finally persuaded her to eat today, but she was only willing to eat dry Cheerios. The vomiting stopped, but yesterday she was exploding from the other end, and we were low on pull-ups, so I went to the grocery store to stock up.
I pushed my cart around the store, checking out the sales, filling the cart with the convenience foods I settle for when pregnant. I felt a little grateful that the cart blocked the inch or two between where my shirt stopped and my pants began.
When I finally made it to the checkout line, pull-ups acquired, the girl behind the counter gave me the once-over and asked, “When are you due?”
The conversation went on from there. Was it a boy or a girl? How many children did I have? How old were they? I answered her questions a little uncomfortably, but I answered them. She was surprised that my girls were so young.
“I figured you’d probably have a girl my age,” she said.
I did a little math in my head. Oh. In my neighborhood it’s not especially unusual to have a first baby when you are eighteen. She had a point.
So I have a sick little girl who is keeping me worried all the time, I am hugely and uncomfortably pregnant, and I am old. Great day.
Tags: queen of uncool, under the weather
Karen
sorry your little one is still sick and that you are still pregnant. I live with 30 teenage girls. I am old morning,noon and and night.
Kacey
It’s just so late in your time and JellyBean is so sick that makes you seem older than your years. A couple of weeks will make all the diference in your life — you will be slim, lithe and young again. Hope that JellyBean is better tonight and that you don’t get it, too.
Kelli
AHhhhhhh, Veronica-
I swear, I’m laughing with you. Not at you.
We’ve all had those days. Darn it!
chickadee
i’m sure it’s the up all night with a sick kid and pregnancy that is giving you those bags under your eyes. i’m sure you’ll bounce back to half your age in a few months.
{Karla}
I’m so sorry for you.
i’m expecting also, and we’ve been sick a lot lately, so I can totally sympathize with your late-night nurse duties. It’s a lot harder now, at 35, than it was the first time around…
hang in there…
blessings,
karla
luckyzmom
Sounds like food poisoning to me.
You’re only as old as you feel.
Antique Mommy
Sean had that vomit/diarreah thing awhile back and it lasted a full seven miserable days as the doctor said it would. And there is really nothing you can do other than to try to keep them hydrated.
And the cashier? Whatever happened to “Isn’t this weather ____?” instead of all the personal inquiry and commentary?
Beck
Ah, I’ve been there. I had some taxi driver tell me at 27 that I was “old” to be a first time mother. In some circles, perhaps. There’s nothing like the combination of sickness+pregnancy to make one feel like a wizened old crone, but really, you’re not.
Jennifer
Ouch.
One day that girl will be grown up with children of her own and, sadly but as is to be expected, the children will get sick and she will be up at all hours of the night caring for them. She will be tired and not looking her best when a younger version of her herself will say, “Oh, I thought you were older than that.” Such is the cycle of life.
allrileyedup
This reminds me of a friend’s child, who asked her if she voted for George Washington.
Holly
When I was a little girl, 20-some odd years ago, I asked my mother if they had cars when she was growing up. I couldn’t understand why she was so offended…