Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Help! The bugs seem to be winning

Our house is being held hostage by a disgusting Spew Bug.  I went down first on Sunday morning followed by the 7yr old 12 hours later. You forget in between bouts of death sickness like this just how suxy and violent vomiting can be.  It was hot sweats, tears rolling, nothing left to puke puking.  and spending a whole day lying down with nothing going in and everything coming out, your pretty much left with just a shell of a person.    I'm so pleased that I was heading towards the end of my dose when the 7yr started his and I knew he was going to be next cause he was all teary and extra cuddly at bedtime.  I had kept myself quarantined with the door shut all day and when he did venture in to say Goodnight I even cuddled him with the duvet over my face to try and prevent the bugs from spreading but Noooo.  10:30pm a little body came in already heaving.  Its amazing how your mothering skills take over even when your feeling like you've been run over by a bus. There is this energy store that kicks in and I was straight out of bed not unlike someone off a special K commercial bowl in hand ushering him to the bathroom.  I'm holding the bowl with one hand and wetting a cold face cloth with the other.  Once that was sorted I had to get him a drink, put a towel on his bed for him to sleep on.  Didn't want to risk poo stained sheets at 1am and tucking him back in.  Which unfortunately was exactly what I did end up with at 1am.  Once I had time to collapse back into bed my brain caught up with my body and started screaming "What the Fuck just happened...Thanks for the warning lady...I thought we were out of action!?".  It was like I had run round the block 7 times.  I was heavy breathing, smelt like a foot and had some pretty impressive hot sweats its fair to say I wasn't at my most attractive When your still recovering from the bug its bloody nice to have a set of husband hands to help and help he did but while he was dry retching in our bathroom after wrapping the boy in a towel and carrying him to the toilet I'm actually surprised he didn't opt for a tarp out of the garage someone had to change all the sheets and clean the 7yr olds legs, make a new bed up and clean the spew bowl for the 4th time.  God I'm a solider! Right?! So no first day back at school for the son, bumma cause pretty much that's the one and only day all kids want to go to school.  Spew Bugs officially Sux!

3 comments:

  1. Aw Shelley- there's nothing worse- that was one seriously nasty bug : (

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  2. Dad says it was f...g lucky it didn't happen the 10 days he was there. He doesn't do spew, sh.t, moaning, groaning or anything else. Suffice to say they would have had to look after themselves from a great distance. Just lucky he has had me there for the past 40 odd years to do these things. One of these days things will catch up him nothing surer !!!!

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  3. OMG - you poor things - keep the bug in the SI. Love and hugs - Aunty Kaye

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