Crossroads’s BodyBlog

So I have been back in the gym for the past 3 wweks and things were going great. I was starting to get my strength back and my weight was staring to climb steadily closer to that elusive (to me anyway) 190 lbs. I weighed in on 06/02/2008 and was at a solid 188 lbs right on scehdule to hit 190 before the summer starts and what happens. My daughter gets sick yet again and I am out of the sym for another week and change.

I don’t know if every gym has this problem, but it has been killing me to take my daughter to the daycare at my gym. Before I start ranting and raving I first want to say that this is nothing against the employees. Everyone who works in the daycare is absolutely wonderful and they are sooooooo good with my daughter. Second this has nothing to do with the how nice the gym is that I attends. Most of the time when I am there Mark (the coolest maintanace man ever) is there cleaning and sharing his insiht into the WWE. The problem I have been having is the fact that there are so many kids in the daycare and they never seen to turn kids away when they are sick. Half the time when we come in there are kids hacking up things that belong in science fiction, kids with runny noses, and kids with things that I haven’t even heard of. To top things off I come in around 11:00 am and pick up my daughter right before closing at 1:00 pm. When I come in the staff are usually just throwing the toys these kids have chewed on, snotted on, and peed on back into a bucket or putting them back on the shelf. Last week when I came in my daughter was chewing on a piece of plasti fruit from a toy kitchen. I took it away from her and set it on the counter to wash off. The staff member picked it up, before I washed it, and threw it back into the kitchen. I said don’t you want me to wash the spit off of that and the staff said no that’s ok.

I have since left the gym and have joined a 24 hour facility so that I can go at night istead of having to take my daughter in. I know that she misses going to the daycare and playing with the other kids, but I can’t keep taking her when I know she is just going to keep getting sick. So far in the past 3 months she has had 4 colds, pink eye, and 2 ear infections. Maybe I am just an overprotective father (Ok I know I am), but I feel better knowing that my baby is going to be healthy.

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