Violently ill

The stomach 'bug' that reared its ugly head in Beebster on Saturday has now turned into the most vicious stomach 'bug' that we have ever had in our history of being a family. In fact, it's the only stomach virus that we have ever had.

I should have known that it would slowly but surely work its way through each of us. Poor Faith was listless and unresponsive all day yesterday. She wanted nothing else to do but lay in her little makeshift bed in the living room. She threw up and had bad diarrhea all day. She seemed much better by the time dinner rolled around, and we were so thankful. 

But, at about 1am, I started feeling the beginnings of nausea. I spent the entire night in the bathroom throwing up and with diarrhea that reminded me of pre-labor with Faith and her post-delivery recovery. It was awful, and still is awful. It worries me since I have never had anything like this before, and I get anxious about any effects on the poor little baby. I did call my doctor though, and she assured me that everything will be OK. I went to check on Faith at about 4am, and noticed she had thrown up all over the comforter on the bottom bunk. She was covered in vomit on her jams and on her blankie. So, everything went into the laundry and my poor little Beebster had to sleep without a blankie in our bed.

We were all up by 6am, and Maddie started showing signs she was becoming infected. She started throwing up by 6:30am, but yet was still laughing and playing with the Flop. By about 8am, she was a completely different Cran. She now has occupied the makeshift bed the entire day. She has been throwing up non-stop; it has been every 10 minutes. She throws up and goes immediately back to her little floor bed for about 10 minutes of restless sleep and then is at it again. I called the doctor because she really started worrying Dan and I when she was beginning to crawl to the trashcan instead of walk. She was so incredibly weak. And, I hadn't even noticed that she hadn't peed since about 8am. They told me if she goes 8 hours without peeing, we will have to take her in for an IV at the hospital. Luckily, Dan got her to pee the teeniest bit at about 2:30pm and we'll take it. 

Wouldn't you know that Dan started feeling nauseous and quivering by about 10:30am. And, this would be the day that poor little Beebster feels much better. We're never this sick that it affects us being able to still play with the C. and the B., but the three of us were all just lying on the couch while Faith played with her Littlest Pet Shop. Bless her poor little heart. She kept coming up to us and saying "awwww... paw Da-da," "awwww... paw Momma," "awwww... paw dis" as in poor all of us! She's still not 100% though and is still having diarrhea and doesn't want much to eat, but at least she's our one ray of hope for how we might feel by tomorrow. I absolutely hate though being so affected to the point that I'm completely sluggish with doing ordinary things with my little girls. Usually, it's a minor cold that I can deal with and go about my business. This one has us totally sidelined.

Not to mention the ever-increasing job of laundering all the blankets, blankies, comforters, shirts, pants, etc that have fallen victim to the throw-up. This totally sucks. And, the worst part- seeing Maddie and Faith so unresponsive and unlike themselves. That is the absolute worst part. Hopefully though we'll be all better by tomorrow.