Let’s see, I’ll recap our last week of illnesses…

Wednesday afternoon a friend stopped by to offer me a donut… thanks Pamela. Soon after eating the donut my tummy didn’t feel so good(not the donut she and her family ate some and are just fine :0). By 6:30 that night the fun began, I was bitten by the stomach bug! On top of me being sick Jarod had already came home around noon with a cold and was sleeping in bed. Anyways, so I start throwing up along with diarrhea, it’s bed time, Jarod’s sick and the kids are confused as all hell.

Preston gets Jarod to come downstairs, which really was no help because he was out of it, I think he had the flu, not sure though. So I eventually get the kids in the shower and Kyla in bed. She’s really confused because she’s never seen me sick or at least not like this. Finally I get her calmed down, in bed and asleep. Jarod is in bed I think and Preston is getting me cups of water and drawing me pictures… so sweet!! I eventually get down stairs… remember I’m throwing up in between all of this… and lay down on the couch. I think Preston eventually went to bed around 10:00pm. He was kind of excited(in a way) that he got to take care of me :0). I think Jarod came down a little after that and we went to bed, or so I thought! Not even 5 minutes later I’m up in the bathroom again, back to the bed and back to the bathroom. I finally give up and lay down on the bathroom floor and sleep off and on between throw ups for what seems like hours… actually it was only like a half an hour or so!!!! When I finally hit my stomach acid I stopped throwing up and got back to bed, it was about 2:30.

The next day I was wiped out!! Jarod pretty much slept all day and the kids ran around and climbed and jumped on me, what fun! Friday comes and I’m still wiped out, totally thought I would be feeling better by then. OH, completely forgot the crazy part of the throwing up thing. I think I had muscle spasms where my arms/hands and legs/feet tingled and then my fingers went straight and froze, I couldn’t move them. It passed quickly but was really weird. I called my Dr. on Friday because my arm was acting weird and she said she believed it was all due to being dehydrated, yay and that happened half way through the throwing up/diarrhea fun!

So, by Friday afternoon Kyla had thrown up once, not bad, just once, I could deal with that. But now I’ve started coughing, my chest hurts and I’m really tired. Kyla on the other hand is doing well, except by Saturday she’d thrown up a couple more times. I’m still coughing and her and I hung out in bed all day! Jarod finally started feeling better and got Preston out of the house for a little while.

By Saturday night, midnight Preston threw-up and ended up sleeping in our room on the floor. Sunday, he’d thrown up a couple more times and Kyla once more. All three of us hung out in bed ALL DAY AGAIN!

Now the fun starts, I go to get some more Tylenol from downstairs because Kyla seems warm, feverish warm. So I get the Tylenol in her and then get her temperature… barely. It was like wrestling a cat to get her temperature but I got it, mostly, 105+… yeah, little high!! So I call the Dr., strip her down and dab her with a warm rag until her temp. comes down. I got it down to 102.3, call the Dr. back and schedule an appt. for Monday. Me still not feeling good, basically whispering because it’s hard to talk and still coughing, woo fun!

So I get the kids to the Dr. and they both get kids tested for flu, FLU. What are flu shots for?! We make our way back home and then I head to Dr. and get tested for flu too, no flu for me, just a virus! Later the kids’ Dr. calls and Kyla has the flu not Preston. K, now Kyla is bouncing off the walls screaming back to her normal self, while Preston is curled up on the couch coughing and tired…. who knew! My guess, Preston’s got the same virus I have and Kyla’s symptoms are just as weird as she is :0).

So now it’s Tuesday, I think… the kids are doing better, Preston has a burst of energy every now and again but they both still have low fevers so Preston’s gonna miss his Valentine’s party unless it snows tomorrow! Jarod’s doing good probably going back to work tomorrow, he stayed home today to let me get some kid free sleep this morning, it sort-of worked :0). I still have a bad cough but am physicaly starting to slowly feel better. I still really can’t eat anything but bananas and bread or it goes straight through me…. I’m close to losing 10 pounds since last Wednesday, I’d say yay but this sucks to much to say yay!

All-in-all it’s been a horrible week and I hope we all don’t get sick for a long time or at least all get sick at the same time!!!