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Idk what struggles Hashem has in store for me but it's always something where logistics end up working against me.... I tried hard to get my manual license because manual cars are cheaper etc, but with this illness going around and my driving instructor being unavailable for weeks due to his own health, I think I'll have to just make do with the automatic license instead. I'll have to get 2 L plates and a second mirror for the car so I can use it on the test. At least I'm getting plenty of practice in our car. It feels a bit like a cop out but I do really need a license because my husband is going away almost every week this summer and I'm not going to sit around without transportation with 2 kids. There's only so many places we can go by public transport.

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Why the flying F does my husband have a fever now??? I don't understand what is going on... I want everyone to finally be healthy already....

Current status: husband had fever and then diarrhoea from 3 June until about 14 June, continued GI trouble till 21 June, now it's back with a fever. Z had diarrhoea from Tuesday 25 June till Friday morning, now some GI trouble. S had fever and diarrhoea from Thursday 19 June until about 23 June, then continued GI trouble because her poos are still not fully normal, and I'm on day 5 or 6 of diarrhoea... Make it stooooop....

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I never want to eat or poo again 😭😂

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Hi! First, I want to say I hope you and your family get well soon! Second, I'm the anon from askjumblr who asked about seeing surnames from my family having possible Ashkenazic Jewish origins. I started looking going through my family tree and I saw that about 4 generations ago the last name was spelled differently. When I looked it up on the LDS family search site for surnames, that spelling had various potential origins but one of them was, "East German and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): from Slavic". I thought it was interesting. I'm still not trying to claim to be Jewish or anything but I just wanted to share since your comment helped. Anyways, again, thanks for taking the time to respond to that question and I hope your family is feeling better!

Thanks, we'll get a handle on whatever plague this is soon g-d-willing.

The LDS website is truly an amazing resource. If you are anywhere near SLC, I would really recommend a visit to their museum which is actually more like a research centre. It's full of extremely knowledgeable people who are happy to help. There are also lots of hobbyists! Sometimes if you're lucky you'll find that that entire branch connects to someone else's tree and they've done the work already. There's a website called jewishgen (.org I think?) on which you can check the surname, to give you some more ideas. A quarter of my husband's tree is on there already, which was very useful for me!

Happy searching!

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I still have a fever and I'm tired of worrying about it, as well as worrying about my kids since S still has weird mucousy poo 1 week on and Z is still dealing with diarrhoea. Also, Z acted up so much yesterday with so many rules broken that my husband lost it and moved her to the guest room permanently. He'd told her previously it was her final chance but she broke the same rule again... As long as S is not too affected by this... because she sat up in bed yesterday and said "Z gone". He also told her she's not going to the US with him, because he can't trust her to actually listen to him and since he has ASD and ADD, that's a dangerous combination. If they were going to one location it would be fine, or if I was able to come with it'd be fine, but neither is true. So now I'll have both kids with me for a week.... yay... And I can't plan for any trips because I don't yet know whether I'll have a driving licence. My instructor is finally back in business after his surgery, at least.

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Aaand now I'm sick too. Started with body pains, headache, and a fever, which idk what to do about since I know where it's coming from but also they say to call the GP or midwife for advice if you have a fever.

2yo only pooed twice today which is a marked improvement. 7yo also only had diarrhoea twice today, and she has no fever and is in good spirits. Husband is completely well, BH. It's just funny to me how it seems like the one person in the family who was always getting fevers and illnesses as a toddler now seems to do so well - all the talk about this building up a strong immune system seems to be correct.

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Gross post

2yo is still recovering... She seemed to be doing better on Sunday and Monday, and then today she pooed 5 times. Still normal ish poos though. Then 7yo suddenly started diarrhoea.

I should backtrack a bit. First, 2yo stepped in poo outside and for some reason no one made her take her shoes off. She spread it all over the house and onto her chair. Then after I cleaned it all up, 7yo pooed herself with diarrhoea, which she then spread all over the house in her effort to clean it up because again no one thought to check up on her.

I asked my husband if he was planning to poo somewhere too to really join the party. All of this happened while I was busy cooking dinner too. So anyway I'm done with today.

Aaaaand somehow 2yo pooed a 6th time. 🙃

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Asking for a friend: is it normal to find out your parents are flying across the Atlantic to visit your sister+family 3 days before they leave, in an extended family type group chat? 🙃

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So.

S was really miserable all of Thursday and through the night, with still some sporadic discomfort on Friday. She barely ate, and with the heatwave it was very hard to keep her hydrated. The GP called back and prescribed us hydration sachets that I wasn't able to pick up 🙃 but my husband left his field course early so he picked them up on the way home. He also picked up more nappies because we literally ran out, she had so much diarrhoea.

Thennnn... 7pm Friday, her nappy is suddenly all bloody. Ugh. So we had to organise a place for Z to go, and get S to A&E for assessment. My husband was able to bring tallis and tefillin for a man stuck there with his daughter. The doctor who saw us asked us some questions and when he heard that my husband had had it and that his only travel had been to a conference in Birmingham he laughed and said "that'll do it" 😂 He also said he doesn't think it's covid, which I'm guessing is because S is so young yet had the same symptoms. My husband left for shabbos stuff at home at this point.

S had blood taken from her toe, and then we went to light shabbos candles in the shabbos room and got food. We were transferred upstairs to the paediatric observation unit, where they gave her rehydration liquid to drink, and I basically bribed her into drinking it all and they were very impressed with how she did with that. My husband showed up again with the buggy this time (BH this hospital is within the eruv). She had more bloods taken from her hand this time. I don't know all of the results but they were basically happy with everything, just a normal ish infection and the bleeding was okay BH. It already went down during our time there.

Interestingly they were surprised multiple times when I answered that S had all her vaccinations including MMR, when they asked if she could have been in contact with anyone with measles. That doesn't bode well for the general population...

Anyway, they let us go at 3 am and we walked home. S had one more poo at 9 am, and nothing since BH. She also ate heartily and drank her rehydration liquid and water well BH. I'll be very happy to have a colder day now.

I'm also wondering if the symptoms my husband was dealing with - the prolonged intestinal cramps and fatigue - are related to electrolyte imbalance. Either way, he seems to finally be better now BH.

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I'm so confused about this illness. So my husband was sick from about 3 June until at least the 12th. The first 2 days with fever and chills and diarrhoea, of which the diarrhoea and tummy cramps lasted much longer.

We've all been around him, some more than others, and I've touched his laundry and cleaned the toilet etc... so I was expecting to be next in line for this. But no, yesterday morning 2yo S started with vomiting and then diarrhoea all day and night and a fever that was very hard to get down. Hopefully the doctor has time to see/call us today because I want this checked out. I also think it's such a weirdly long incubation time, because she didn't get it until the 19th... Like it's obviously not norovirus or whatever which is just 1-2 days.

On top of that, her latest nappy had freaking threadworms in it, where the f did those come from? I really need her to stop sucking her thumb. And in addition to all this, it's super hot outside and in, but of course there's a major fire somewhere in the area involving lithium batteries and I had to close the windows right at the coldest point of the night.

Anyway I'll be super glad when my husband is finally home this evening from his week long trip, because this was harrrddd.

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Yeahhh so.... The park near us has a really annoying huge and loud 3-day music festival. It used to be worse, as they didn't have the right infrastructure in place so in our old flat which was slightly closer by, you could hear the music word for word inside with the windows closed, and drunk people would urinate in the gardens along the way, in the centre of the Jewish community. That's gotten much better. However, everything about it still sucks. (Park is shut off for months before and after, loud antisemitic drunk and drugged people travelling through the Jewish community, local police and hospitals completely overloaded, loud music, etc)

What happened today is a good illustration of how orthodox Jews are more visible and therefore targeted. We were walking home this afternoon in broad daylight, and some dude in a taxi decided to hang out of the car and start shouting abuse at my husband as they drove past. My husband is so used to it he just shrugged.

What my point is is this: we just want to be left the frick alone. We're just living our lives. This includes wanting to be left alone by non orthodox Jews, as per my last rather disastrous post. Like just leave us alone. It's not hard to not make a post on why you think we're doing everything wrong. Just stop thinking about us.

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Always nice to have a clear connection from the parsha to the visible world. BH

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Huge saga as usual, lol:

1. While waiting in the waiting room, a midwife came to announce they have started their walk-in vaccination clinic, so I signed up for the pertussis etc vaccine. Originally they only had clinics on Fridays so that was a pleasant surprise.

2. Had the ultrasound, BH baby is looking good and exactly the same size as Z and S. No issues there. However, placenta is low lying (not covering the cervix so I'm not concerned at all), and when they did a new scan called a UTAD, the placenta looks like it may have trouble later on (but I'm 100% sure that would have shown the same as with S).

3. Had the vaccine, nurse confirmed that I can get the flu vaccine and perhaps the covid booster in September, and the RSV vaccine at 28 weeks. Fingers crossed for the covid booster...

4. Got seen by a nurse who took my vitals

5. Spoke with the doctor (an older Indian lady), she said that I'll get another scan at 28 weeks, then the placenta position scan at 32 weeks, and further growth scans. She said they should really be combined. She also said that a bad UTAD scan doesn't necessarily mean placenta issues later on, and that she doesn't agree that we're getting that scan done, that it's not showing to be making a difference, and that we're getting too many scans. 😂 Can't even blame that on insurance or billing or greedy doctors, as it's 100% costing them more money.

Anyway so yeah, driving me crazy with all the extra scans, but at least BH it's at the closer hospital 10 min away and not the further at 20 min. And BH ka"h baby is doing well.

Anomaly scan today, will update on results 🙏 with Z this is when they let us know she had cysts on her brain (BH resolved), and with S we were told about the placenta praevia at this point (which went to vasa praevia which BH also resolved). IYH only good news this time.

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Anomaly scan today, will update on results 🙏 with Z this is when they let us know she had cysts on her brain (BH resolved), and with S we were told about the placenta praevia at this point (which went to vasa praevia which BH also resolved). IYH only good news this time.

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Honestly at this point it's appearing to be covid, yikes. Here's to hoping my booster from winter 2022/23 is still in there, because I do not want to get this while pregnant and solo parenting if my husband does go on his week-long business trip this week! I actually think Z brought it home because she was complaining of a sore throat for a while, and pretty sure her friend's mum had it after returning from Israel. S has a runny nose now, but I mean, how can you even tell...

And yeah great timing for the NHS to remove pregnant people from the booster eligibility. This should be a flu shot situation (which the NHS does think pregnant people should have so wtf).

Husband came home super sick from work... Stomach pain, fever, diarrhoea.... I've warned him that norovirus is going around and who brings it into the house? Him. I've had it once before when I was pregnant with Z and it was horrible. Now, it's on top of taking care of the kids. 🙃

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I wish that non orthodox Jews would stop the newest trend of orthodox bashing - comparing us or our practices to xtianity. So tiring.

And as a former xtian, they do it badly too and have obviously no idea what they're talking about.

It's like Zionism as used by goyim all over again but now used against the evil orthodox.