[Re: ] Easter was gastro-tastic!

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Hi everybody, hope your Easter was great!

Ours was not-so-much. At 2am we were awakened to the sound of not

making it all the way out of her room to vomit... spent the next 40 minutes

consoling her through dry heaves; getting her settled; talking her into

" Emetrol " ;

cleaning her carpet (the previous owners did not buy Scotchguarded carpet. Let

me interject a little testimonial for Scotchguarding. We always had

Scotchguarded WHITE carpet in our old condo. I was able to remove red wine,

green finger

paint, cat vomit, even printer TONER from Scotchguarded carpet. Here, I have

a permanent stain from my MIL's coffee and now a delicious big brown splatter

pattern in 's room to remind us of Easter 2005) -- then going back to bed

and stupidly waiting for the next call instead of sleeping. Finally drifted

off and within 15 min. of that, Kate was yelling. I figured we had a

double-bagger... that maybe Kate had it too. But she had simply lost her

blankie. Sigh.

Back to bed.

I am already sleep-deprived waiting for the time change. Kate awakens with

the dawn (that would be 5:15am and earlier every day, for those keeping track)

due to an obnoxious Chickadee outside her window every morning ( " chick-a-DEE

DEE DEE DEE " at top volume, I was previously a strict vegetarian for 14 years

and believe in animal rights but there are mornings I'd like to take a

sledgehammer to that little varmint).

So had no more vomiting but felt really horrible ( " I feel like a dead

fish " , which speaks more to the proficiency of our fish-owning than to how she

felt), had only one big watery diarrhea.

Fortunately, Easter was at my SIL's (I've done Thanksgiving AND Christmas

three years straight but I always put my foot down and refuse to do Easter), so

we just had to miss it, not rearrange or whatever. Sent DH and he brought me

some leftovers. I made a turkey breast dinner for our little crew, it was great

( didn't eat a thing all day of course). OH how nice it is not to have to

fix dinner for 13 at least ONE holiday!

Poor didn't forget that she was horribly ill with another gastro virus

on Christmas Day... seems like they hit her on the holidays lately. I'm

realizing I will never have to do an Easter dinner here... has averaged

two

gastro viruses every Spring, either both in March or one in March, one in April.

ALWAYS at least one in March though, five years straight, and I'm a little

sick of it. I HATE MARCH. Sigh. And now that she's in school she's getting them

in Fall/Winter, too.

Sorry to gripe, I'm just fed up with the gastro viruses. I have to say I'm

disappointed about missing yet another holiday or event, too. Probably everyone

here can relate to that! Anyway, the last gastro virus was MUUUUUUCH worse,

and it blasted through our whole household. I really hope DH doesn't get this

one, things are not great at work and he can't afford to miss... and of

course I hope Kate and I escape as well... but Kate shared a " recorder " wind

instrument with on Saturday and I stupidly finished her taco that night.

Oooops! Seems like no matter what precautions you take with infection control in

these gastro bugs, though, you either get it or you don't. I have had times when

I made a mistake or wasn't perfectly careful and nobody else caught it, and

times when I know I did everything humanly possible to avoid spreading the bug

and we all got it anyway. {{Shrug}}.

Anyway, she felt better this morning, chipper voice and everything, ate 2 pcs

of toast. Then she had a huge diarrhea of all water and was weak as a kitten.

At least I have convinced her of the merits of pedialyte (she has always

hated it, every single flavor including unflavored), so that's going to help. I

pulled out the old Easy Ups due to little accidents on the way to the bathroom,

so that's saving me some laundry.

Okay, done complaining. For now!

(mom to , age 6, dairy intolerant-related GERD -- currently has

polysaccharide antibody def, previously had transient IgG, IgA, t-cell & other

defs... and also to Kate, age 2-1/2, more dairy intolerant but very healthy!)