A good weigh-in

Guess what?  Maddox's test for whooping cough came back . . . positive!  You could have knocked me over.  I thought Chris was crazy asking them to test for WC.  I was especially mad that he mentioned at my work and that it became a huge deal.  I thought it was a cold.  I feel terrible that I had Maddox at my work when he actually did have WC. 

Chris and I had to go to the dr today and get an antibiotic for it today.  If we don't get treated as well, then we could just keep passing it back and forth to each other.  Maddox is the one that it is dangerous to have.  Babies can die from it.  Thankfully we caught it early.  Our babysitter has a 1 year old and he actually is much worse than Maddox. 

I started off my day more than a little mad at my babysitter.  She text me this morning and told me that her son was coughing terribly and she said she was going to take him to the dr.  The reason I was mad was because she "called in sick" on Monday as well to take her son to his 1 year checkup.  She regularly "calls in sick."  I have used one day of my sick leave for myself, the rest have been used because of her.  She only watches Maddox 1 and a half days a week.  Chris works 4/10s and has Tues-Thurs off, so I only need her Monday and Friday morning, since I get off work at 1 on Fridays.  Needless to say, I've been very frustrated with her for "calling in sick" so often.  I felt terrible after I found out Maddox tested positive for whooping cough.

According to what I've heard whooping cough,  or pertussis, is on the rise again and Skagit County has one of the highest, if not the highest, rate of WC in Washington (Chris said in the US, but I don't know if I believe that).  The vaccination helps, but doesn't completely prevent it.  Chris and I not only got antibiotics for it, but we also got a TDaP vaccination.  (Damian and Maddox have been on antibiotics since Maddox went to the dr on Tuesday for "just in case.)

So, after googling whooping cough in Skagit County, I found that the county south of us, Snohomish county has the highest number of cases (link here) but Skagit County the highest rate in the State per 100,000 (link here).  This is another interesting article about it. 

Anyway, after the dr, we dropped D off at baseball practice, then went shopping, THEN I was able to go for my run.  I went down my old trail with the "horrendous hill" (sorry, I can't find the post where I talk about it originally) and was able to run up the hill.  It was hard, but I did it, and I didn't stop.  My time was kinda slow today but I was kinda messing around and swerving around tufts of grass. It felt like a harder workout, but it made the run slow.  But that's okay, I don't mind.

The ducks that live along the trail I run.

I almost forgot, today was my weigh in.  And I am happy to report that I am down to 165.8.  I'm super excited about that.  But there's this voice in the back of my head that says "that's as low as you'll go, next week you'll start going up again."  I wish I could get that out voice out of my head.