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[quote=Anonymous]I guess this is both a vent and an expression of astonishment that it happens every single year. Has anyone else always missed the same special events?

My 3rd grader gets very sick during the couple of weeks after Thanksgiving every single year. We are so careful to help her sleep and eat healthy and hydrate because we know it is coming, but it still gets her no matter what we do. We don’t travel or host during Thanksgiving, so it’s especially frustrating because our reward for having a quiet holiday seems to be everyone else’s germs once they return.

Because of the timing of her seemingly annual illness, she missed the school Christmas (private school) concert in 2nd grade and pre-k. They didn’t have it in K and 1st grade because of Covid. And now she has a fever of 103.1 and is going to miss it tonight, too.

We’re paying all this money for special traditions at her school and I feel totally disconnected to the school this time of year because we’ve haven’t experienced any of the holiday stuff since 2018! We even rearranged appointments and other things this fall so she wouldn’t miss a single choir or choreography practice, which seems dumb now given the pattern of always being sick for the concert.

I’m sad…she missed out on so many special childhood things because of covid and we can’t seem to catch up on them because of whatever new viral junk she’s getting. She’s our only child and each missed event hurts extra because it’s our only chance at it. I’m being upbeat for her but I’m so sad inside.[/quote]

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