I'm pretty sure that at least half of the city is sick right now with a cold. Evie has been sick EVERY SINGLE WEEK since the end of November. She starts out with a stuffy nose, then a cough, and then gets better, and the following week gets sick again. Thankfully, this was a healthy week for her. We were on a roller coaster of no sleep and then recovery. When she's sick, Evie inevitably ends up sleeping on top of mommy just so I can get a few hours of rest in a row. So precious, yet so hard. However, one thing is different. I was in mortal terror of her getting sick when we left the NICU last February. Now I am not. That is pretty huge. Last week, poor Evie was so congested that we had to take her to Urgent Care to make sure it wasn't going to her lungs. We are just weaning off Sildenafil, so there's that added sensitivity about her lungs. We count ourselves lucky so far. When we went to the hospital to make sure she didn't have RSV or bronchi...
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