sick...

another stomach bug has invaded...prior to this year i can't even remember how long it has been since i've had the stomach flu...but this year? i've it had it twice since october! boo.

i think it started with gus...i'm guessing he picked it up at the gym as the other two families in the 'hood that have been struck also go to our gym. sunday he was really fussy in church...we came home, i put him down for a nap and he fussed off & on for an hour before settling in. i kept an eye on him via video monitor and he appeared fine. when he finally woke up like 3 hours later he was lying in a pool of blueberry vomit, and had been for quite some time. :( he threw up once more, and then seemed fine.

then thursday came...we went to the grocery store early, and right after lunch i started to feel icky. i was feeling better by dinnertime though so we went over to a friends house to play (where, btw, lu split her chin open a bit again...no urgent care necessary this time though). i felt crappy by the time we got home, but gave the kids their baths as scheduled, and then went right to bed myself. friday morning i woke up around 3a (actually stupid milo woke me up wanting to go outside in the ice storm...so i let him) and felt just awful. when luci woke me up at 6:45a i felt horrendous. after 15 minutes+ of throwing up i decided to fill a script for zofran that i had (anti nausea) at walgreens...right after they opened. i brought a puke bowl along in the car. fun times.


after the meds i didn't throw up again, but i felt horrible all day. i pretty much let the kids destroy the house...like playing in a sea of wrapping paper (actually i let them do that on thursday). wasteful, yes, but a cheap thrill for them nonetheless. at one point i drifted in & out of sleep on the playroom floor while they played the piano & microphone super loud right next to my head. i managed to get through the day & ordered them pizza for dinner. luci ate a TON. she didn't eat very much sunday - wednesday so i thought she had fought off whatever gus had on sunday. WRONG.

clay got last home night & put luci to bed. i went to bed pretty much right after that...around 8:30p. i fell asleep instantly. around 10p i woke up to luci groaning on the monitor. by the time i arrived in my night time ski boots clay was holding her but there was vomit EVERYWHERE. like down the inside of her bed everywhere. big pizza chunks floating in puke. sooo gross, especially when i still was far from 100% myself. clay & i managed to get it & her cleaned up, and he volunteered to sleep on her floor. less than an hour later i was back in there with more puke, but he agreed to stay with her a bit more.

at 1:30a, after vomit every 15 minutes (according got him...i was hard asleep, apparently), he was ready to tag out. i climbed into bed with her and withheld water from her...and the poor thing was so thirsty. it was really dry because the heat was running constantly (its been super cold by SE TX standards). by 3:30a she was sobbing for water. i pulled out the grammy tricks of a cold washcloth for the head, the humidifier and ice chips. i let her have 3 ice chips and 1 drink every 20 minutes from 3:30aish to 6:00aish. she threw up every hour, despite the zofran. finally she slept well from 6a - 8a.

we came downstairs & made a nest on the sofa, watched a few shows & stuck with the every 20 minutes for ice & a drink. she hadn't thrown up since about 5:30a so we tried a popsicles....which came up about 30 minutes later out of a dead sleep. here she was before that incident.

she's been sleeping ever since.

now i'm just hoping clay & gus aren't in for it...cause i'm not sure it is the same thing that gus had last weekend. fun times. so much for our super bowl plans!

more disney posts, g's 13 month notes & lu's 3.5 year notes to come! if only i didn't have to work at my paying job & at my home job i could spend the next 8 hours posting and be caught up! ;)