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Seriously. Could we please have ONE more sickness this year? 5 months of on again, off again, runny noses, coughing, diarrhea, vomiting and general malaise just doesn't seem like enough. DO NOT read on if you are uncomfortable talking about bodily functions!
Monkey has been dealing with diarrhea since Friday evening. I thought it was "drool stool" at first because he's only had a maximum of 3 per day since that evening and has been drooling like a Saint Bernard. He's had one slight fever (again, in line with teething) and has been in pretty good spirits but not eating too well (per his usual).
However, the stools are just aweful and starting to turn colors (brown to orange, now yellow-orange) and DH is now sick (vomiting, diarrhea) as well. I, myself, had a looser bowel movement earlier today. So my hopes of Monkey's issue being drool stool are slowly fading away. I'm just hoping that the antibiotics he and I have been on for the severe sinus infection we shared two weeks ago is keeping the worst of this thing, whatever IT is, at bay. All I pray is that we don't have a repeat of our New Year's hospitalization party.
DH pondered if our HOUSE is making us sick. Not sure I even want to think about that or what that would mean in getting it diagnosed or resolved. I'm positive that if there's a company out there that specializes in this type of thing, they'd probably convince us of SOMETHING being wrong with our house, regardless of the truth. Our sitter says that this is just life with a kid but that they eventually get immune and YOU eventually get immune to most of the stuff floating around out there.
Anyone else feel like they've lived through one sickness after another since having a kid and is our sitter right? Does it slow down or go away eventually?
UPDATE: DH seems to think that lunch at Chicken Out yesterday was the cause of his woes (which is a shame because I really like that place). He actually filed a complain with the county health department! I was surprised it upset him that much. Anyway, Monkey has only had ONE and a half messy diapers today (I say "half" because it happened immediately after the first and I think it was all supposed to be ONE). Fingers crossed this is as far as it will go!
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So if you find a bubble, let me know where you got it!
Sorry to hear you guys are sick again. Our little girl went to the doc yesterday and has ANOTHER ear infection! She started with a cough on Friday and here we are. Goofydaddy is having head/chest stuff going on too and I've had this annoying dry cough for like a week. Between the barfing and head colds in our house, I'm getting majorly annoyed too...but I'm pretty sure that's what you have to deal with when you have a kid.
I'm postive it's not your house. How long have you guys been in there? 3 yrs? I don't recall before this winter you guys getting this sick before. If we weren't going through the same thing, I'd wonder but look at all the examples of your friends with young kids and all the sicknesses we've been through recently.
sorry to hear you're going through all that. the sicknesses do tend to run their course through everyone usually. it's what happens when you have people living in close quarters. and little ones' immune systems just aren't there yet. Ours went from hardly being sick before daycare to now sick twice since starting daycare 4 weeks ago. and it wasn't just sick, it was head cold, ear infection, and pink eye, no this time chest cold and another ear infection. she's passed the chest cold to us also this time.
we just need bubbles for the little ones so we don't get sick. they almost need to get sick. we adults can do without it. :-P
Actually,
We've been healthier since Sasha. Well...at least not as many gastrointestinal ills. I've had an incessant inner ear infection which makes carrying around a baby all kinds of fun. And driving. And pretty much just walking.
But other than that our usual winter-long sicknesses and so forth didn't happen.
Maybe when he's in daycare for more than an instant.
Ugh! Sorry sickness has stricken again! I hope it passes quickly.
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