#cocksackie

I remember the many Octobers/Novembers of my kids’ youth. It was a race I played with myself – if I could get them to Christmas without an infection requiring antibiotics, we were sitting pretty. The rest of the winter would be fine, usually. But it was rarely to be. My first two kids had asthma, worsened by damp leaves and colds, etc. My littlest kid got scarlet fever – something I hadn’t seen…