[flickr id=”6217579492″ thumbnail=”small” overlay=”true” size=”small” group=”” align=”left”]It was inevitable when we sent her out into the great big world of public interaction and the germ festival that is school. We knew that the possibility of increased occasions of illness were going to happen.

I guess we didn’t expect it to happen this fast.

Six weeks in and as of tomorrow we’ll be at 7 days absent. It’s about a 20% absence rate.

But this recent bout of illness this week has us baffled.  There’s only a low-grade fever. No respiratory issues. A loss of appetite. Although who can blame her when the second she eats more than a small amount of food it all comes back up later?

And what comes up?  Well, you don’t want a physical description.  Let’s just say it’s cause for concern.

So tomorrow is the first sick visit of the year to the pulmonologist.  We’re at an increased amount of “shaking” (percussion vest) per day because it seems there is an excess of mucous happening somewhere.  Just not in her lungs.  That we can tell.

Let’s hope it’s nothing serious. And that nothing serious comes as we get closer and closer to cold & flu season.

Were crossing our fingers for no hospital visit this year.