The Life of a Katybird: sickness...oh the drama!

Last week was a picture into our future...our future as parents of 3 children... 3 children who can also get sick at the same time...

Fortunately it wasn't all at the same time, but close enough. Noah started last Monday, puked a couple of times...laid around all day...ate some pretzels by nights end and was better for school on Tuesday. Back to normal Tuesday.... then Wednesday morning Mark starts puking... no mind you he had been coughing for a good couple of weeks so we thought it was just that - you see my children cough so hard they barf...like everytime they get a cough... not just a cough in this house...always something to go with it...a side of puking...time spent crying over the toilet because they just don't understand why they are doing both..."momma it's just coughing!" yeah yeah - it's never just a cough...my hair on my neck stands on end when anyone of them starts coughing - it will always be more...

Back to Mark - he stayed home - did okay most of the day... was well enough to go Thursday... and of course I have tried my darnedest to stay away so one of us could be with Seth...lord knows what we would have done with him puking when all he eats is milk and does so every 3-4 hours... I get up Thursday...get the boys breakfast - eat breakfast myself, but by 930am I was feeling crummy...like 'oh man what am i going to do with Seth here and i'm by myself" - crummy... Well I threw up around 11... oh and my blood sugar ws in the toilet... which stinks when you can eat/drink anything...so of course I called Curt crying - freaking out - oh and I was terrified of losing all the work I've done pumping because if you don't drink water you don't have much output when it comes to milk production... it was a triple whammy! but just as the boys had been by that evening I was well enough to eat some pudding and have a little water... by midnight when i got up to pump i was feeling back to normal. Then poor Curt...the man who had taken care of us all...been with us through all of the puking, all the sheets being washed... comforting all of us...started around 3am... and bless his heart didn't stop until around 2pm...he had it the worst of all of us...thankfully by Saturday morning he was able to keep Gatorage and pudding down... and by Sunday we all went out to eat and to Costco... we all wanted "SALT"...anything with salt... we were all dehydrated i am sure and needed something with flavor and salt in it... I have never seen the boys eat so much...or be in such great moods about eating:) Took some pictures of our dessert, but keep in mind they both ate hamburgers, chili fries and now were onto "worm ice cream"... :) Fortunately Seth never got it - thanks to the Rotovirus vaccine his little tough body got at 2mos... getting another one in March at his 4mos check up - what i want to know is why can't they give that to adults or older children...i know i would welcome shots that prevented throwing up... haha!

Stay away sickness... don't want you back...ever (ok i know that's dramatic, but seriously i could do without)...