The Anti-Parent Disease

Sometimes you come across something that seems purposefully designed just to get you. Poor little Phoebe has (we think) got croup. It's quite an odd disease, it only affects children and the symptoms are worse at night. The indirect effects are much more sinister though.

Poor little Phoebe is very ill at night, restless, coughing, crying, temperature, the works. Needless to say we get some of the fallout from that and we don't get a very good nights sleep either. In the morning though, as we stumble zombie-like out of the bedroom she's feeling better and bouncing round like a huge great bouncing thing that wants to play. So we do, it's hard work. Then by mid afternoon she's feeling grotty again, turns into a huge great bouncing thing that's in a bad mood and wears us out even more, before finally going to bed and sleeping really badly. Then the cycle repeats.

So what we seem to have here is a kid's illness that appears specifically designed to grind parents down, essentially getting them at both ends of the day.

It just seems suspicious, that's all I'm saying.