Sickness wars-Episode I-The Diarrhoea menace
Nopes,this story is probably not as interesting as the Star wars and certainly not available in wide screen version nor the dvd(you can heave a sigh of relief). It all started when our little peaceful planet of Fuzboo was attacked by this nasty bug.It was well aimed at the young Ina who is definitly a promising Jedi in the making. So Hubby-Gon Jinn and Fuzzy-Wan Kenobi had to embark on an arduous journey to protect the little one.Probably the bug travelled down the gut of that 15 month old child who inspite of being sick was brought to the story time at the library. It happily jumped up on young Ina and started its puke and diarrhoea fest. You never realize how hard mom Jedis work until you have a little one coming down with unchecked flowing transit of the intestinal baggages created by the dark forces. And when it happens rest everything around the home planet stops,laundries get piled up overnight,grocery are left undone,books unread,floors unswept,dishes unwashed,the only one thing gets the top priority handling the poor bawling little one and her unchecked bottom. No lightsabers can make the task any easier.
It made me remember the 
days when I used to fall sick. I had one such tired mom Knight too who used to attend to me with a nice warm soup,cuddles and vicks vaporiser. There always were warm washcloths against my hot forehead,there always were yucky nasty smelling medicines in dark bottles,white or yellow capsules which were detested but yet forcibly shoved into the throat and a cool thermometer inside the mouth. It seems yesterday but here I am doing the same with my own little one. I guess it all comes around a full circle. Haven't we all had those moments,I somehow think mom knights always had that special touch when it used to come attending her sick little ones. They indeed are superheroes.I can certainly vouch mine definitly was!
Coming back to sickday woes of Fuzzboo planet,everything we gave to Ina came right back either through the top or the bottom. I also realized how hard it is to get the stubborn little one to get to drink those nasty tasting electrolyte solution. We tried the orange flavor,lemon flavor,the popsicles,nada....her stubborn little mouth stayed
clamped shut. There's a reason why at times some old parenting values come in hand,we got down and pried her little mouth open and got a syringe to pour it inside. Desperate times call for desperate measures.My mom laughed when I told her this saying now I knew how hard it was for her to get the medicines inside me too as a kid and how it was never easy fighting the dark shadows of the sickness forces.
She was mighty pleased that her grand daughter finally got me to realize what a pain I had been. The young Ina clung to me like a creeper to a tree refusing to let go,all I did was sit through with her and soothe her little self changing the smelly diapers (they can make you swoon and go run to grab your smelling salts,certainly not for the weak hearted) not to mention the little sore bottoms which had to be shielded with loads of anti rash creams,hold her as her tired little body snuggled for comfort and slept. My solitary bathroom trips were certainly the giddy moments of freedom I experienced. Laundries continued to pile up like a mountain as more sweatshirts and onesies adorned in the bodily fluid embellishments joined the heap.Honestly I have no recollection of how the day looked outside the home in other little planets of yours(will make a visit over to all your planets soon)or when the weekend came and sashyed its brilliant sunshine around and left a soggy looking weekday or who beat
whom at the World cup Cricket match on Sunday(I blame it all on the Sith Lord's dark plans) . All I know is how my little o
ne braved it all and today after a tiring weekend she managed to eat well and smiled as brightly as she did before the bug struck her. Somehow that made me it all worthwhile,I guess those are the moments which make you feel good about being a parent Jedi and that you did what perhaps needed to be done in the right way. As for the dirty little bug menace he certainly won't last long as he is now on his last legs. Right now though I'm off to give much needed TLC to the little sick one. But I cannot rule out that the thought of relaxing in this nice massaging chair all stretched out limp with a nice cool Margarita definitly seems sooooo much appealing at this moment!All seems to be well again in Fuzboo planet.
