We had a fantastic Christmas! I hope yours was also great. I planned on posting this a little closer to Christmas, but sickeness has plagued and overrun the house in post-Christmas terror. Monday, Spencer woke up throwing up which I chalked up to an insane amount of junkfood that his body wasn't equipped to handle. But then it didn't stop, and there were poop issues ... all day. We still thought it was related to the junk food though, and he was mostly acting like he felt fine so we went to lunch with my dad's family. By the time we got there he was acting like death, so he laid on my lap through lunch and on the way home ... Henry started throwing up.
It's impossible to keep a 16-month old still even if they are throwing up, so he did so a few more times around the house until bedtime, but he slept through the night and felt much better in the morning. Spencer also felt better in the morning, so we figured it was just a 24-hour bug.
And then. I. Got. It.
On the way home from a day of spending my Christmas money (post on that later) I started feeling bad. I don't do well with GO GO GO, so we thought maybe I was just getting a little motion sickness.
WOO BOY. It turns out that the throwing up for this bug is not related to something trying desperately to get out, it's because your equilibrium is off so every time you move, or run to the bathroom, you get motion sick. Trust me, I've had a lot of time to think about this.
Also, at about 12:45am, hubby went to bring me some water and COLLAPSED on the floor, and started snoring. He has no recollection of this. I pleaded with him to wake up but he didn't for nearly a minute, and then I pleaded with him to crawl into the shower which he did and spent the next hour in there not being able to move. He has it too.
This morning I was actually going to call someone to pick up the kids and take them to daycare but it was just going to take so long so I gathered all of my strength, got them dressed and drove them to daycare to get them out of house. I touched them as little as possible, and I did not feed them. Someone without a plague can do that.
So this started out as a Yay Christmas! post. Sorry, it didn't end that way - I'll have to start again.
Oh, but hey! I lost 7lbs in 12 hours! That's good, right? No?
4 comments:
Same thing for me Christmas night and I did notice the vertigo. It's been a long, long time since I've had the stomach flu, but mine was pretty mild this time. I expected worse. Most of my time was spent exhausted and trying to fight the pings of nausea every 5 seconds pounding in my brain.
Glad you had a good Christmas and this all happened after the day!
Yuck, OG! I'm so glad that's over! I overdid it a little tonight but I'm definitely feeling better. I hope you are too!
Yes, it's a good thing this didn't happen ON CHRISTMAS!! I've had a stomach bug for Thanksgiving before and it's just the absolute worst!
(ps. google is only just now letting me comment on your posts!! stupid google.)
Oh dear. Sorry about the yucks for all of you. Chuck had that ON Christmas the first year we were married. Not pretty. Thankfully, we didn't have the kids to deal with and somehow I managed to NOT get it. But even still, it was miserable for both of us (obviously more so for him). Glad you are feeling better.
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