I wanna be sedated

The Illness Amplification System is working fine. We fell into a lull but are finding the old rule applies: whatever she gets, we get worse, about five days later, and wonder how she made it. She was grumpus unlimited for most of the weekend, including a memorable inconsolable hour just before friends arrived for dinner. We didn't know if it was daycare blues, teething or what.

Now I know it was a cold, accompanied by sinus headaches the likes I have never seen before, and a sort of shallow wheezing that produces a deep smoker's cough.

I feel like crap and I'm going to bed.