Thursday, June 9, 2016

Stomach bug, revisited

Joy of joys, we seem to have caught our 2nd stomach bug in three weeks. This time it's not Lauren and Brad suffering, it's Lauren and Ellie. 
Little love had her first throw up experience last night, and words cannot describe how heartbreaking it was. 

E actually threw up in her bed last night after she fell asleep. I'm so glad my nightly routine is to put a hand on her back before I go to bed, or I would have never known anything had happened as there was no crying or waking up. 
I went in around 10 and it smelled HORRIBLE and I realized there was puke everywhere. A puddle longer and wider than she is with huge chunks of everything she had eaten that day. She was sleeping in it -it was in her hair, on her face, clothes, sheets, mattress cover, pillow, animals...it was so bad. 
We got her up and had to give her a bath - she stirred when a soft light came on and just looked so confused and said "hole me mama" in the saddest little voice. I immediately started crying. 
She shivered the whole time she was in the bath - it was just terrible. 

While I tackled cleaning E, Brad tackled cleaning the room. I got her dressed and put her back down to bed. About 15 minutes later I heard heaving through the monitor- thankfully just bile/water, but more throw up nonetheless. So round 2 of cleaning commenced. 

At this point I knew I wasn't going to sleep well being worried she'd be sleeping in puke again. So a pallet on her floor was made and I slept in her room. I slept horribly, and also kept waking up feeling a little sick myself. By morning I was in bad shape, and around 10 am also threw up. Three cheers for family sickness! 

The really good news is that E seems much better today (aside from her 4 hour afternoon nap), and I haven't thrown up
again, but am just worn down, sore and tired. Here's hoping tomorrow has everyone feeling A-OK. 

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