I guess its that time of year again. It gets cold and we all start getting sick. I have not been able to update for sometime now, hence the three post in a row, :) because of illness in the family 2 1/2 weeks ago my son came home with the vomiting bug. Oh I hate dealing with sickness.....I can deal with blood, guts...but not sickness I will be sick too. Well my poor son said he felt sick when he went to bed and then woke up being sick laying down and it went EVERYWHERE!!! Thankfully my husband was still awake so he took care of it (stripping the sheets, bathing my son as he was covered in it etc)
We get him back tucked into bed and he goes back to sleep. 15 minutes later he does the same thing!!! And by this time my husband is asleep and once hes asleep you cant wake him for anything. So with the help of my daughter we changed sheets, bathed disinfected his bed again and got him tucked into his bed. 15 minutes later......AGAIN!!!
And he did this for the next 6 hours!!! Poor thing was so tired he really did not wake up till after the fact.....By the next morning he was finally holding down some "special" water (consisting of a pinch of salt and pinch of sugar) it works great when you have been sick. So he then nibbled on toast etc. He still feels so tired and worn out. But def on the mend.
I spent the next few days doing nothing but disinfecting the house over and over trying to keep it at bay.
Well that was it.....for about 2 days and then......
It hit again.....
This time it was my 12 year old daughter....And poor thing did not make it to a bucket either! She said she has never had sickness come on that fast before.....And she did the same thing 7 hours of almost constant vomiting....
This became my friend!
By this time I had MASSIVE amounts of sheets towels etc...and my dryer was not working right and then all together stopped!! No heat...ugg! OF all the times for it to go out.
Well my father in law got on the case and called the guy to fix it and he said he could get out later on in the week. Now it was Monday and we had been having this vomiting all weekend and no dryer...... But the Lord was gracious in that my father in law came up to deal with something else and there was an appliance guy sitting on our street visiting another house so he asked him if he could take a quick peek.....well it turned out it was just the thermostat had blown a fuse. So My dryer was back!! Yipee!!!!
We did end up going down to the laundry mat to dry a bunch of loads as we could wash faster then drying...
Then K came down with it....And she ASKED for a bucket and got it in!!!! Took my 2 year old to get it in the right place. lol!
Well then daddy came down with it.....
And was in bed for a full week!
Then I got a chest infection....steroids and antibiotics....
Then K had her third birthday...but no cake as all were feeling terrible...
So by this time we are thinking that no one else is going to be getting it.
So my oldest and I went down and got our van. Driving back we ate on the road and about 2 hours after eating I felt really ill, and I mean really ill! I managed to get home but had to go straight to bed. I then started being sick. Now as most of you know I get Hyperemesis Gravidarium in pregnancy, I have never been this sick!!!!
After physically being sick for 5 hours straight, I could hardly get a breath I was retching so bad, my son called the ambulance, as it turns out it was a friend on duty that night and she told me later I looked the color of a dishrag! so they took me in and she said on the way in this really seems more then just the virus...Well it was.
Turns out what I had eaten was off and it gave me food poisoning! I was pretty dehydrated when I went in. I am amazed at how fast I got dehydrated. Three bags of water and many anti-sickness meds I was feeling better. They kept me in for 12 hours as the doctor said I was pretty not responsive when I went in. I remember him trying to ask me questions but it was terrible trying to answer him back. I just could not.
They think I had a bit of the virus too but it was the food poisoning that really hit me hard...oh it was terrible...the headaches I had for three days after and the joint aches and dizziness, that was only food poisoning I cant imagine what it would be like to be poisoned with a chemical! The doctor told me as I had it so bad to expect these things after.
I still feel tired and washed out from it all. But slowly were all getting back to normal. well as normal as we can.
oh yah!
To top it all off I put a load in the wash and asked my son to start it. He did and a few minutes later came in and told me there was water all over my kitchen floor. ok normally your thinking someone has dropped a glass of water kind of thing.....
well no....
it was 2 inches of water over half my kitchen!!! washer was broken.....
So my husband and his dad took it apart looking to see what the problem was and how it was broken.
We thought it was a filter blocked but seemed like a lot of water for just a filter. Then we thought maybe it was hoses. So they tipped the washer up to have a look and guess what they found.....
a big gaping hole in my drum.....
yep you read right....big hole in the drum....so water was totally coming out as fast as it was going in.
So washer shopping commenced. to make a really long story shorter we did find one and it was delivered last week.
So the old washer is still sitting here until my husband and son take it apart to try and sell the parts on ebay.
So there you have it! my life over the last three weeks....Its never boring here at our house....
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