Sick to death…..

Ok ok the title is a LITTLE dramatic.  Our house has had a stomach bug since Valentine’s Day.  It all started with Charli of all people   We are thinking she got it from someone in MOPS on Monday!  Tuesday she was overly cuddly and just wanting to chill and cling to me.  As in she wanted me to carry her EVERYWHERE and she would curl into me and lay her head on my shoulder.  That doesn’t happen unless my little bug is sick or tired.  We ended up going to my in laws for dinner (like every Tuesday) and everything seemed normal with her besides the cuddling.  She ate dinner like normal (breakfast for dinner YUM) and still seemed fine.  Probably an hour after dinner, as we were getting things together to go home, she puked (on the heating vent no less..EWW).  Everyone insisted it was because dinner didn’t sit.  I knew something was up.  I was worried.  Well as soon as we got her cleaned up (who am I kidding… my MIL cleaned her up!) we got her in the car and on the road we went.  They only live about ten minutes away… well not even halfway home… EXORCISM style puking going on in the backseat.  I felt sooooooooo bad for her.  There was no stopping it, there was no where for it to go since it was coming so fast and so much, we were in the car and she kept half inhaling/choking on it.  I was yelling at Aaron to pull over because she was choking.  We got pulled over and HA to anyone who makes fun of me for being over prepared… I had EVERYTHING in the car we needed to clean her up and even clean up the car.  We actually got just about all of it cleaned up… stripped her down and covered her in blankets.  Once we got home, we cleaned her off a little bit more and BLAH she threw up ON ME.  This time though it was just liquid.  Pooooor kiddo.  I was freaking out by this point.  My poor baby hadn’t ever been sick like this before.  She has actually been extremely healthy since birth!  (BTW sooooo thankful for that) Sleeping arrangements became an issue that night… I just kept imagining her suffocating on her puke in the night.  So ultimately Aaron ended up sleeping on the recliner in her room and I slept in our bed with the monitor on all the way high so if she did throw up again I could at least run in there and help out.  She only got sick 2 more times in bed thankfully.  The next morning she was so tired and clingy and just blah.  Thankfully, no more throwing up and nothing from the other end!  Then started all the fun… I took Aaron to work Thursday morning and went from DCA to IAD to get my mom who had been out on business.  On the way home my mom asked what we wanted for lunch… Charli still wasn’t eating normal so it was just my mom and I.  My first clue should have been that I flat out said I wasn’t feeling Chik Fil A at all….. we ended up getting Firehouse… it took me 2 hours to eat it. Then it slammed me hard… I felt like someone had drilled into my joints and stuck expanders in them.  I had a slight fever and was just beyond tired.  I had a coaches meeting that night and afterwards I threw up a few times and asked my mom to watch Charli so I could go to bed.  Thankfully she has no problem with that.  Then later that night when I woke up, I begged my mom to stay home on Friday so she could watch Charli.  I couldn’t begin to figure out how I was going to take care of her when I was so sick.  The last time I caught a stomach bug I was in FIFTH grade…. yea… Welll…. she didn’t stay home… an hour after Charli and I got up… I called my mom crying.  I was a mess.  She said she’d come home for lunch lol.  Gotta love Mom’s!  Long story short… I survived (barely I swear…) then my mom got it!  Of course I took as good of care of her as I could and keep Charli away from her… then Saturday night I had to go get Aaron from work.  He said he’d had some symptoms of said stomach bug (I’m sure you can figure them out since I’m not mentioning puking…) so I was a little worried.  We were supposed to go to Jersey for Kelly’s baby shower on Sunday!  Well, we didn’t make it to Jerz.  Aaron ended up sleeping most of the day (lucky guy… he barely got sick!) on Sunday and now today on Monday… all is well.  My Dad doesn’t feel well today though…. Hopefully it doesn’t go back through the house! 

 

A FAMILY THAT GETS SICK TOGETHER STAYS TOGETHER…. BLAHHHH.

 

Now that I have my first real kid sickness under my belt as a Mom… I hope it doesn’t happen again.. Yea Yea I know… it will….. maybe I’ll get lucky like my mom and not have pukey kids!  We just never caught things like that!  Even if my Dad had it in the house! 

 

Hopefully this isn’t too TMI