June 16, 2006
As predicted. . .
Lil C has a fever of 102.5. That’s with the Tylenol. She is cranky, miserable, and I can’t blame her. I was there on Tuesday. It wasn’t fun. I am feeling much better as of this afternoon. In fact, I was feeling so much better that when the head instructor of my karate school emailed to say he could meet me at the dojo for some private review. . . I knew I had to get there tonight.
Lil C was only slightly warm when I left at 5 p.m. I gave her some Tylenol, fed her, and went on my way. The plan was to get there by 5:30, work out for a half hour, and then be home by 6:30. Two of my instructors were there, so we started talking. We talked for a while and then got down to business. We went through all of the material for my 4th kyu test. . . all of it several times. I got home around 8:00 p.m. Oops.
My husband was thrilled with me. He had made dinner while holding a screaming inconsolable baby. At one point he had to turn dinner off so he could hold our screaming inconsolable daughter. Lil C finally passed out in protest after screaming her head off looking for me. My husband said he’s never heard her cry like that. I felt horrible about it. Really, I did.
At the same time, I haven’t been to karate in three weeks. I needed to go and have some one-on-one time; and it was glorious. I savored every second, even when my instructor was contorting my arms into extremely uncomfortable positions to demonstrate yet another way to get out of a choke hold.
Official testing is in the morning, but unless Lil C has a miraculous recovery, I’m not going to make it. Tonight, while practicing, my instructor told me that I have passed, so if I don’t make official testing tomorrow it’s not a big deal. I will be promoted next week with everyone else. I’m just going to go in before my regular class and run through the kata’s as a formality one more time. 4th kyu. . . three brown stripes on my green belt. When the stripe goes on the belt, I will be over the hump. I will be closer to black belt than I am to white. Next time I test, I will earn my brown belt. So cool.
The best thing about tonight is that after a couple run throughs on my weapons kata, and after coming home and running through it a few more times, I am able to do it well and with confidence. My open hand kata is in great shape as well. The last time I tested, I felt I didn’t deserve the promotion. I felt I passed by the skin of my teeth. I felt like they had given me a gift. I don’t like feeling like that. This time I don’t. I’ve earned it; I know my stuff.
Next week I start looking forward towards 3rd kyu and the material I need to learn. . .
Tonight I’m just going to take care of my baby (who will be up every hour on the hour I’m sure), and pray that Big I is spared this crazy summer flu.
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After reading your post, I was reminded about some American SAHM mothers I met while I was visiting US some years back. The thing that struck me was that they hardly could afford a break because of the lack of domestic help for them. So it’s either some close family members or the hubby…but they managed well.
I can’t help it but compare with what we have here in Asia and I have to say we’re lucky. Here, we can cheap domestic help. A large pool of them and yet we’re still bitching…
Oh, those fevers are awful. The Blossom had it last month. On and off, off and on, Tylenol and Motrin, yadda, yadda, yadda.
Congratulations on doing so well. What a sense of accomplishment! Great job.
Little ones typically run high fevers like that. When they get sick, they get sick.
Congratulations on passing!
I really hate those following words, but :
“what did I tell you?”
Relax, you’re good.
!!!!!!!!!BIG CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!
Keep it up, persevere!
I always had gripes about graduating commitees. Glad your Sensei doesn’t do things as “by the book”. 🙂
I’m currently straight in the middle.
white,
yellow,
orange,
green(ME),
blue,
brown,
black
Still, that black belt feels ages from now. I wonder if I’ll ever feel confident about my karate. I’m told it happens around 4th dan (wow, another 20 years to go without being sure)
Too bad about the sicknesses… Good thing is that time does the trick and they’ll heal up.
I must be a sick-o. Even after reading that, I still want kids. I can almost feel the future-headache I’ll get. 🙂
Good day!
Well done! I’m so glad that you’ve passed that one!
I know what you mean about going out though with a little one poorly! But I’m sure your husband coped admirably!!
Congratulations to you, and consolations to your sickie.
Notes from my youngest, who is prone to really nasty fevers.
a) If Tylenol alone will not bring down a fever, it is permissable to give a small dose of ibuprofen as well. Safer than upping dosages.
b) Luke warm baths are miracle workers on pulling down a temp – particularly if given immediately after a dose of something. Too cold will cause the kidlet to heat up in response, but luke does well.
You may already know these, if so sorry about the repeat!
Awww, I hope she feels better soon. -M