sick days

When I came home today, Anne and Baba were leaving the building.  Anne looked mad.
Anne:"What can I do?  He's so stubborn!"
Baba: (eyes wide and hands up, showing the number 6) Fifteen days!  I'm so bored, I have to get out!

He was wearing sandals with wool socks.  His regular shoes were on a permanent ankle-rolling slant because wouldn't bend over to put his shoes on - and he realized in the snow, they were downright dangerous.  Neither of them had a jacket on.

Upstairs, Teoman and Tomris were laying on the couch.  Tolga had turned on the television and went to bed.  They both had headaches.  First Tomris, who Tolga gave medicine, then Teoman, who I gave medicine.  I checked on Tolga too - he'd been sleeping all day.

Tolga isn't lazy, but he won't miss a chance to sleep if he can take it.  But he is rarely sick.  He will sometimes say he feels like he's getting sick, and he'll wrap up in blanket until he sweats (his cure), or drink some grapefruit juice and oranges (cure #2) or take Theraflu (cure #3 , because he took it then sweated) - but I think this is the first time I've seen him with an actual fever.  It was worrisome because it was moving past 102 and it wasn't breaking.

In the meantime, Baba was insisting Tolga bring him to the store to get new shoes.

I gave him some icepacks (my cure-all), and some ibuprofen (my cure-all #2).  I sent the kids to bed soon after dinner, telling Anne that Tolga was especially ill.

She said, "I was so terrible this morning, but I took a shower and now I'm better."

As Tuana would say, in her phrase of the day keeps saying, "Uh-oh."