This country is broken.

Throwaway because.

This country is so broken. Childcare, medicine - nothing works.

Almost a month ago, our nursery got swept by some bug. Since then, our child has been in and out of school with flu like symptoms.

Doctors always give the same advice (assuming you can get an appointment) - ‘he’s got an infection, just give him plenty of fluids, bed rest and he should get better’.

And he does - and then we bring him back to nursery and inevitably some other child has got his or her face covered in snot, plays with ours and the whole cycle starts again.

We fork out so much money for ‘bandaid solutions’ to tie us over. We are really fortunate that we both make enough money to do this, and I completely understand people who say ‘oh but there are others who can’t even afford nursery’.

I run my own business, and my work has suffered. If I don’t work, I don’t make income. My partner works for someone but I can see she’s getting to the end of her rope too.

Her work, thankfully, covers emergency childcare for her, which we booked today to help us as our son is still sick. Got a phone call this morning that the nanny is sick and can’t come in.

This after we had spent an entire weekend looking after our poor son. We can’t even enjoy our time together because he’s not well - it’s all geared towards getting him better.

I’m exhausted, frustrated and demotivated. It’s been a cycle of crisis to snot covered crisis for a month. What the f.