Nothing as cold as Colds

My fiancee was babysitting for her niece for about 4 days of the past couple weeks, and these 2 days of last week, he niece seemed to have a cold. What my fiancee's sister and brother-in-law thought was that she was teething, because apparantly as I will soon learn they have the same symptoms I guess. Apparantly sneezing and runny noses and stuff are all a part of teething. But a few days after baby sitting, we received a phone call saying that she had gone to day care with another kid, that has apparantly come down with the chicken pox.

So of course me being a little over the top, starts frantically researching on the internet, what kind of affects chicken pox has on an almost 4 month old baby. Turns out, there is no severe risk, you are just going to have a really cranky baby on your hands for 5-10 days, until it passes. But I was thinking, good to get it over and done with before you will even remember it. I still have to this day 2 indentations on my face due to scratching of chick pox. I dont remember having them, but I have the two spots to prove I did. So anyways, I am feeling slightly relieved, quite worried for my fiancee as she will be with our son all day, and not very fun for the little guy, or her im sure.

But we also then find out that her niece has received the vaccine, and we were told she was not able to even be a carrier, so it should be okay. Which we find out later, its true, everyone is okay, but my poor fiancee and my son both have colds now. Her niece wasnt teething, she just had a cold. So now I am worried about the stuffy noses, while breast feeding, the fevers, the all around unhappiness of my son, and my fiancee. Taking care of my son while he is sick, and she is sick herself, my heart really fell for them. And of course I am super busy at work so I cannot take time off right at this particular time. And I felt horrible about it. My work has been really supportive, Ive taken time off for appointments, and hospital visits, and the 3 weeks I took off at his birth, I really do have an amazing work. So I want to return the favour to my work by being there for them when they need me the most.

So I have spent the last few days staying as distant as I can with doing as much as I can. My fiancee and I have a tendancy, as Im sure alot of couples that live together do, we tend to pass a cold back and forth, it tends to stay around for a VERY long time so I dont want her to go through this right now, when he's older its fine he's going to have to get colds and sick and all that stuff, but it seems really early for the little guy.

But luckily we seem to be on the upswing now, he seems to be getting better, my fiancee seems to be getting better, and I am still not sick, so I am thinking we (knock on wood), are going to make it through his first cold okay.... (knock knock knock on wood...) It has been hard being distant but I know in my heart its the smarter way to do this, I dont want my fiancee to get sick again and again while staying at home with him, shes got a hard enough job as it is!