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?
