Seeking God Knows What

My least favorite thing- I have a sore throat
I hope it is not a sign of things to come because I also feel kind of icky in general.
Widget has a runny nose and the start of a cough. Crossing my fingers that she doesn’t get an ear infection.

On the subject of sickness, my older sister told me today that my sweet nephew CP (who is 4 in four weeks) has pneumonia after having been diagnosed with mono two weeks ago. I didn’t even know that little kids could get mono.

CP is my special buddy. He lived with us (along with my older sister and my neice Miss A) from the time he was 9 months until 13 months and then I saw him a lot while they still lived in MI as my sister’s husband was in Iraq with the army. It was also when I quit working due to depression and stress so I had lots of time to spend with CP. I would often get up with him in the night so my sister could have a break and we would cuddle and it was wonderful.

Poor kid. She said he was very good getting his finger poked for a white count and holding still for the chest x-ray. One thing I am glad about is that my sister got her kids a pediatrician outside of the military health system. She was never able to get them into the clinic, so they always ended up waiting in the ER which was not in the best of shape and took hours and hours. She said the pediatrician is very thorough and great with the kids. Very important to me considering my own health history of childhood cancer because unfortunately her kids are at a slight (but only slight) increased risk of developing the same cancer. I’m already cautious with Widget, even though there doesn’t seem to be any history of serious medical problems in her birthfamily. Then again, there is no explanation as to why I had Wilms’ Tumor over anyone else in my family considering the fact that there has hardly been any cancer diagnoses on either side, even as family members have aged.