Well, I've come down with my annual back-to-school sickness, a bad cold that's left me feeling like a wrung-out dishrag. A cold in this heat is just the worst! I stayed home yesterday on what turned out to be another sweltering hot day. Heat indexes were up around 112 degrees again. I've never been so sick of summer as I am this year. We always think of colds and flu as being a fall/winter thing, but when 700 students come back all at once, the time of year doesn't matter; illness will spread.
It could be worse. Last week one child after another showed up in the office to see the nurse throwing up and with diarrhea. Several of the younger ones (kindergarten especially) soiled their clothes. They couldn't pay me enough to be a school nurse! Or any kind of nurse, really.
I'm feeling a bit better this morning so back to work I go.
