dear mystery virus

Well, we've had quite enough of you. You gave my baby four days of fever, a rash, diarrhea, throw-ups, and loss of appetite. She slept most of last week and, when she wasn't sleeping, she was crying and sweating in my arms. We went to three different doctors who, in the end, told us we had to wait it out. We missed her smile, her laugh, her running around, and her babbling. And now that, thankfully, Annie is on the mend, she is pounds lighter with a bony bum and a deflated tummy. Imagine that - a flat tummy on a 20 month old! Also, she now seems to have an incurable case of bedhead. So you may go, mystery virus, and please do not come back.

With our firm disrespect,
The Kantors