Ugh. Being sick is no fun.
I've had stomach bugs like this one before (where you can't keep anything down or inside your body for very long) and it's exhausting. I've never had one like this as a mom though. This was interesting.
Thursday, I went to the mall with 2.0 so we could do our walk. As we were leaving the mall, he got sick all over everything. Now my husband had been sick Tuesday night, but we thought it was food poisoning and didn't think anything of it until the baby got sick too.
I called the doctor after the second bout of sickness and was told that if 2.0 threw up one more time, he needed to go the ER since he's still under a year (barely) and it's very easy for babies to get dehydrated and they can be admitted to the hospital for dehydration. I really didn't want that to happen, so after the next bout of puking, off we went to the ER. After a dose of Zofran (an anti-emetic drug) and some pedialyte, we were sent home just in time for the bug to get me and I spent the night in my bathroom.
Yesterday was spent on the couch under a blanket as we both ran a fever and slept most of the day. My apartment is desperately in need of a cleaning, but I just didn't have the energy to manage it. I don't have a lot of energy today either, but I'm much better than I was yesterday. 2.0 is getting into everything and crawling around on the floor, trying to walk and causing trouble. He's keeping jello down (he loves jello now apparently) and I think I'm going to give him some rice cereal and bananas today. We all seem to be on the mend.
Now I just have to work up the energy to get off this couch. 2.0 threw up all over his winter weather gear and it's subzero wind chills today. *sigh*
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