struggling today.

[RockerMummy184]

Not really looking for any advice, just needed a whinge.
I was signed off sick from work yesterday for 2 weeks due to chronic migraine and sinusitis (6 weeks of constant pain, visual disturbances and vomiting).
DS usually goes to a childminder while I'm at work so I thought while I was off he would still go. (I'd still have to pay her, it will give me some time to relax and recuperate, and keep him in his routine) but today she is taking a scheduled day off so DS is at home with me.
I've not felt comfortable enough to take my medication with it being just the 2 of us in the house (it makes me quite sleepy and groggy) so I'm sat here in absolute agony, feeling sick and crying my eyes out.
Also having to entertain a very energetic 2 year old means I've not had chance to relax all morning, I've not even had chance for a 5 minute break with a cup of tea.
I know it's only 1 day, but seriously, the pain is overwhelming! Sorry for moaning. I'm just feeling very sorry for myself!

Didn't like to read and run! You poor thing. Can your OH (if you have one) come home early, or take a day off to help out? I can remember ringing my DH up at work once when I was really ill and our DS1 was about 18 months old to say that I couldn't get out of bed to look after him and he had to leave work and come home right away! He was a building site foreman in those days, so it was really awkward for him to do, but I've never been so relieved to see anyone. Really hope you get through the day - Cbeebies is your friend!

Hi willnot DH also works on construction sites so will not have his phone on him and I've got no other way of contacting him. He also wouldn't come home anyway due to the fact that he thinks I'm just a whining pregnant woman with a headache (having never had a migraine he can't grasp that there is a difference!)
I've asked my mum of she can come and help me when she finishes work, not even bothered that this seems a little juvenile!

Glad you are getting some help! Hope you got through the day ok in the end, and your DS can go back to his childminder tomorrow. It's horrible having sick children, but it's so much worse when you're sick and they're not!

I was lucky here - I live in Germany and they brought in shared parental leave when our first DS was born in 2007. So DH got to do a couple of months of paternity leave (I was a student then, but spent as much of the day as possible in the library so that I wasn't in the house). Once he'd done that, he started to get the picture of what life with a small child is actually like, and after that it was much easier to get him to do his share of looking after sick children or stepping in if I was sick. He did 5 months of leave with DS2 and we are planning six months of leave each with DC3 - I hope that I don't have too many stints of being ill and doing childcare ahead of me....

Get well soon!