I'm exhausted. I'm worked over. I feel like I could sleep for days.
Not only have I been sick but every member of my family has been sick too for the last 7 days.
It all started at 3:00a.m. last Friday. I awoke with a start to see Jackson standing by my bed. (why is it that kids just stand and stare at you until you wake up?) "Mom, my tummy hurts. I came up to get a bowl and threw up in the sink." "Okay bud, I'll clean it up." So up I got to clean the vomit from the kitchen sink. The rest of the night was spent on the couch with Jackson, bolting upright every time he coughed or moved. By morning he felt a bit better but had the B.U. (for those of you who don't know what the B.U. is it means butt urine. I know its gross but its way better to say I have the B.U. then it is to say I have diarrhea right? Besides you were warned in the title) Anyways, Jack continued Friday with the B.U. Then Brady got it and so both of them were laid out on the sofa all day.
Saturday dawned with all of us feeling pretty good, until Natalie came in and told me her tummy ached and then Reecey refused food and started with a fever. The B.U. reared its ugly head at Natalie all day Saturday and Reecey was burning up. The strange thing was that Reecey's digestive activity was normal and nobody else had run a fever with their little stomach bug. Weird...until I woke up in the middle of the night on Saturday hearing Reecey coughing uncontrollably. Great!
Sunday dawned with everyone feeling good. Reecey's fever was gone, Natalie felt better and of course Jack and Brady were great too. Until Reecey toddled into my bathroom and I caught a whiff. Yep, you guessed it...Reecey had the B.U. Since we were all dressed and ready to go to church we went to Sacrament meeting and then TJ took Reecey, who had a fever again by this point, home. When I got home Reece was fast asleep and so we went about our normal, lazy Sunday activities. When she woke up she was burning up and coughing with a runny nose but the B.U. had subsided. I determined I would take her to the doctor the next day.
Monday dawned with me having the B.U. Reecey still had a fever. It was a rough day...enough said.
Tuesday dawned with Natalie coming in at about 7:00 a.m. crying and coughing. She had a sore throat. I was feeling a bit better so off to the doctor we went. They swabbed Natalie for strep, which came back negative so she just had a bad cold bug. Reece had a bad cold bug too but hers had also caused a double ear infection. The rest of Tuesday was spent tending to my sick girls.
Wednesday dawned with Reecey almost back to normal and Natalie feeling better but I still decided to keep her home from school. We had to run a few errands so off we went. After our errands we picked up some lunch and after we ate it I felt like GARBAGE. The B.U. was back!I struggled through the rest of the day and was able to get Jackson out the door to hitch a ride with my cousin's family to St. George for a baseball tournament. When TJ got home he told me he'd felt like crap all day and couldn't eat anything. He had the B.U. too!
Thursday dawned with TJ informing me that he never wanted to eat again and he was convinced his innards had liquified. I still felt cruddy too. At least all the kids felt good though right? WRONG...at about 6:00 p.m. Brady announced a headache. TJ left to meet up with Jackson in St. George. He felt crappy the whole way down but decided to eat some sunflower seeds since those tend to unliquify his innards, if ya know what I mean.
Friday dawned with a fever, a headache and sore throat for Brady! TJ feels better though and even woke up hungry! I feel a bit better from yesterday but am kind of light headed and shaky from low blood sugar levels. I ate a bit of breakfast and think I'll run over to Kneaders to get some soup. I've lost 5 lbs though! (bonus!)
Needless to say I'm exhausted, I'm tired, I feel like I could sleep for a week. Nothing takes it out of you like taking care of sick kids when you yourself are sick!!!! I'm just hoping and praying that TJ or I don't come down with the nasty little cold virus since we have a little getaway to Las Vegas next weekend.
post edit: The B.U. is intended to be pronounced The Boo. Get it?
11 comments:
Okay seriously...I don't want anymore children after reading your post! I usually feel very sorry for myself when I have 2 children with the stomach bug (which Sienna happened to have last weekend) luckily nobody else caught it. Anyways...I often imagine what it would be like to have more than 2 children and sickness running through the household and just the thought stresses me out. You just confirmed my fears. I hope you're all feeling better now! And have fun in VEGAS...so jealous!
I hope you are all better! We had 8 weeks of off and on illness...it's awful. Ours wasn't BU, it was more like sinus infection from HELL!
I'm sure all will be well and you will enjoy a terrific getaway!
Julie I think I have the B.U. now that I said it about 30 times in my head while reading your blog! So sorry...that is the worst!!! I"m glad you lost some weight though...always a bonus...also so great to see that you're back to the blogging world!
Yikes that sounds like a very terrible week!! BU is a great term!! I was sick to but can only relate to Reecey's ear infections.
I'm so sorry Julie, my little Paul (almost 2 now) had RSV! He also has asthma so we were giving him albuterol treatments and he's now doing better. But man I'm sick of sick kids, get over it already it's SPRING!
p.s. I'm with Bonnie, I think I'll stop at two kids!!!
Yikes! Sorry about all the sickness. We've been lucky so far so I can't even imagine what the last week was like for you guys. Hopefully everyone is feeling better. Give all the kiddos kisses from me!
Oh, man! I hope I don't catch the BU by reading this post, it sounds exremely contagious. Hope you all feel 100% soon.
Eeek! The BU is never fun! Sorry you guys have had it all week! We are so lucky because we started last night with the BARFS! I was already in bed, Adam had just put the kids down (they were having a "sleepover" in Spencer's room) when Annie came running in "Dad, Garett just threw up". I don't care what kind of state I'm in when I hear the words "---- just threw up" I bolt upright in bed! Thankfully he made it to the garbage can and then the toilet! Adam cleaned him up and put him to bed in his own room, despite his saddness to be sleeping alone. I thought he did great through the night until I went into his room to clean up laundry and smelled a terrible smell. He had thrown up all over his comforter, in his sleep, and didn't even know it! Yuck! Here's to hoping no one else gets it like at your house! Sorry for the long comment!
You poor thing...I agree with Bon....I will stop at 2!!!!! Though I know you love every single one of them, I don't think I'm as strong as you to take care of a sick me, 4 sick kids and a sick husband!!! Men are PATHETIC when they are sick...atleast mine is. He turns into the biggest baby that has ever lived on this planet!!! Hope all is better now and you have a great time in Vegas!!!
Hope ya'll are MUCH better!!! I hate that no matter how much I disinfect it still passes freom person to person!
oh Julie I am sorry about the sickness at your house. We got the sore throats and I even took Aaron in for a strep test came out that he had just the sore throat everyone seems to be having. Hope everyone is well soon and back to being themselves!!
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