My Single Mom Life

The teens and this damn cold, one gets better, the other gets worse, then that one gets better, and the other one gets worse.
Mark will be going to school today, and both Mark and Sebastian will be staying home.
He actually got much worse over the course of Tuesday.
He ended up spiking a fever at 103 during mid-afternoon, and was just miserable and pale most of the day along with coughing and sniffling like crazy.

I've managed to get better, my coughing has stopped, but not my runny nose.
It's been dripping like a leaky faucet for several days now.
I hate it, I hate constantly sniffling, I hate constantly having to blow my nose, and as much as the Nyquil helped me sleep last night, it also had a bad reaction with my last dose of pain meds I took last night about 2 hours before bed.
I was seriously screwed up.
I was doing the stagger and stumble all the way to my bedroom.
Not fun, no good at all.
So tonight I had to choose between sleeping without coughing but being in pain, or be pain free and sniffling snot all night.
I chose to be pain free, but once again, up all night with insomnia.
In 1 hour, I have to wake Mark up for school, so it's pointless to even lay down now.

Edit @ 5:08am
Mark just woke up, coughing badly, he was trying to speak to me but his voice is all hoarse, he has no voice at all really, I touched his forehead, he's got a fever now, he was near tears trying to tell me how cold his body was, but I touched his head, chest and back, and he is warm, so he has a fever and chills, and he also said that his head hurts again as well as his body.
I gave him a dose of Nyquil and sent him back to bed.
I cannot even try, would not even try, to make him go to school like that.
So now they are both staying home again.
This is the cold from hell.

But you know what?
I partially blame the school for this crap.
That damn absentee doctor's note policy they have is why I had to keep my kids home for 2 days, send them on the third day, keep them home to try and rest for 1 more day, send them again the next day.
I cannot get a doctor's appointment with their doctor until January!
I called yesterday, Tuesday, I told them that both boys have a wicked cold and fevers, body and headaches, I asked can we please come in and be seen today or tomorrow even if we have to sit and wait for an opening, (Tuesday or Wednesday) they said no, they had no open appointments, a lot of their patients have the exact same cold thing going on, and a cold is not considered an emergency, not even the fever is considered an emergency unless it reaches 105, and at that point, they tell you that you can't go to the doctor's office, you have to go straight to the ER for fevers that high.
What the hell am I supposed to do about this now?!

This will be Mark's third day in a row of no school, when he goes back, hopefully on Thursday, but maybe not at all for the whole week because of this, he will not have a doctor's note, and he will get in some sort of truancy trouble for it because we don't have a fucking doctor's note!!!
Dammit. edit at 5:33am
I just realized that both of them will be out for more than the 3 days note grace period, and will both have the truancy issue.
I hate that fucking policy so fucking much!!
Isn't the parents word good enough?!
Why can't I call the school and tell them my kids are sick, they have the cold from hell, they have fevers and chills, but we can't get a doctor's appointment in order to get the note, they will be out all week, and have the school say 'ok Ms. Cooper, take care of your sons, get them plenty of rest and fluids, and when they come back it's ok if they don't have a doctor's note'.

But noooooo, the school will want that damn doctor's note or it goes to the truancy officer to investigate.
Let the damn officer come to my house, I'll let him take their temperatures, feel their hot foreheads, and listen to them coughing that sounds like a couple of dogs barking in here, and have them decide whether or not my sons are just being truant instead of really sick.
I fucking hate that policy!!!!