Well, another month has passed and it is time for a quick update. March was awful! We all got a horrible, nasty, stomach flu. And I mean EVERYBODY! Not even my own parents were safe. It started with me. I was feeling a little sick and was sitting at my daughter's softball game praying my husband would come soon so I could go home. After he arrived, I left the field to make it home (barely) for the saga to begin. I was horribly sick. Every fluid in my body was trying to exit any which way possible. Not fun.
Next was my daughter. She woke up in the middle of the night getting sick. My poor husband. Not only was he dealing with her, but he also had to get up with our baby boy to tend to his middle of the night snacks.
The following morning my husband shipped our Kindergartner off to school. He wasn't sick and my husband wanted to get him out of the germ-infested house. Around 9:30AM the phonecall came, "Kyle threw up in class. Can you come and get him." My poor husband. He dutifully left to pick up Kyle and more supplies as my daughter and I slept the sleep of the ill.
Around 4PM Larry came up to check on me and give me a Popsicle. A Popsicle never tasted so good! He coaxed me to come downstairs and I weakly complied. After about an hour I dragged myself back upstairs to sleep some more.
At 10PM, I finally started feeling hopeful that I was on the mend. All three of my children were soundly sleeping. No one had been sick for at least 6 hours. I went to find Larry only to discover he was bent over the kitchen sink. I asked if he was okay and he said, "Did you feel better after you threw up?" Oh no! My rock, my husband-who-never-gets-sick was feeling our misery. After 24 hours taking care of the entire household, his body succumbed.
A week later we all were finally well. I think it took me the longest to recover. I had bouts of weakness that were frustrating. Larry and I were both surprised at how long it took us to feel like ourselves again. The kids, of course, bounced back in a quick few days. Joel, unfortunately ended up having it twice. We wonder if he was the first to get it and it trickled to each one of us.
However it invaded our home, we hope to not see it's return for a very LONG time.
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