Showing posts with label illness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label illness. Show all posts

Monday, January 17, 2011

Stomach bug

Since I am all alone in my big house and all the interwebz is apparently off living real life, I figured I'd blab here for a bit.  Remember how I got a stomach virus in December, got a zofran prescription, and survived?  Well I got another one.  This one was worse.  I woke up at 2 am this morning and had to run to the bathroom, sick as a dog.  I slept on the floor outside the bathroom (because at least there's carpeting there), facing the litterbox because I most definitely could not lie in any position other than on my right side without puking.  This also led to a very sore right hip.  Poor Brian got whined to but there really wasn't much he could do to help besides bring me a water bottle, zofran, and blanket.  Oh, and I've decided that you haven't truly felt a stomach bug until you have all the symptoms in the stomach and intestines and are trying to just stay still and not puke and THEN you have a 4-5 pound baby squirm and kick every inch of your abdominal cavity.  Oh. my. goodness. child. 
By the time Ev woke up, I was no better.  Brian took total Everett duty and packed him and an overnight bag and shipped him off to my parents' house.  There was absolutely no way I could have taken care of him today....who knows what would have happened if I had a newborn.... So he's been there all day while I've been lying in various positions on the couch, watching old tv shows on the tivo and trying to stay hydrated.  I've been taking zofran and sipping water all day to try and prevent any contractions since both Brian and my doctor are out of town this week.  Yes, Brian is gone.  In Sault Ste. Marie.  Until Wednesday night or so.  He really wanted to stay home and take care of me but this was a major project that he had a whole lot of involvement in and needed to go be there for some bridge building/fixing. 
So now, Everett's still at nana and papa's (I'm sure having a blast) and will do his second overnight trip ever.  I've managed to consume a clementine and handful of cheerios, probably 3-4 oz of ginger ale, and somewhere in the vicinity of 20oz of water.  We'll see if I can manage some dinner....
Already called in to daycare and work (which kind of sucks because I still have to pay for that day of daycare, but now that she knows this bug is in our midst, she really doesn't want him).  I'm hoping I'll just start feeling miraculously better soon, can retrieve Ev tomorrow and spend the day recuperating, and be back to our regularly scheduled programming on Wednesday.