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Neither one of them is catching, so she's been going to school regardless.
First, she's phlegmy. (Or, as we say, phlegm-ish. This is my mother's idea of a joke, because we're not, in fact, Flemish. Nobody ever said my mother was actually funny.)
Well, I get like this every year from fall until spring, and my mother gets like this every year... huh, you know, when I put it that way it might be better to say that I and my mother are only well in the summer, but you know what I mean, and Ana said herself she gets sick every fall. There's nothing to be done for it. She's not contagious, she's not sick, she's just coughing a lot. (Cough-ee.) She can't stay home just because she's congested, she'd never go out!
The other problem is a rash which is some form of allergy. Ana is an itchy child, but this rash is a little new. No fever or other symptoms, and it's almost certainly just contact dermatitis... aka not catching.
Regardless, it's been going on all week and so her parents decided to send her to the doctor today. So I let her sleep in a little, got her up, dressed her in clothes-that-aren't-uniform... and found out that the first available appointment is at 3:30. So she went to school. In her non-uniform clothes because I agreed it was okay not to change out of them just this once, and wearing her sister's shoes. Her sister's shoes??? Yup. (We fixed that as soon as we walked into the office.) I'm gonna put a little bit of nail polish or something on them so we can tell one pair from the other, I think.
First, she's phlegmy. (Or, as we say, phlegm-ish. This is my mother's idea of a joke, because we're not, in fact, Flemish. Nobody ever said my mother was actually funny.)
Well, I get like this every year from fall until spring, and my mother gets like this every year... huh, you know, when I put it that way it might be better to say that I and my mother are only well in the summer, but you know what I mean, and Ana said herself she gets sick every fall. There's nothing to be done for it. She's not contagious, she's not sick, she's just coughing a lot. (Cough-ee.) She can't stay home just because she's congested, she'd never go out!
The other problem is a rash which is some form of allergy. Ana is an itchy child, but this rash is a little new. No fever or other symptoms, and it's almost certainly just contact dermatitis... aka not catching.
Regardless, it's been going on all week and so her parents decided to send her to the doctor today. So I let her sleep in a little, got her up, dressed her in clothes-that-aren't-uniform... and found out that the first available appointment is at 3:30. So she went to school. In her non-uniform clothes because I agreed it was okay not to change out of them just this once, and wearing her sister's shoes. Her sister's shoes??? Yup. (We fixed that as soon as we walked into the office.) I'm gonna put a little bit of nail polish or something on them so we can tell one pair from the other, I think.
