The day was Wednesday, 11-3-2010 it started out ok. I was making breakfast for everyone including Brian when Mary called and said Brian is not feeling good and taking off sick but thinks he can bring the kids to you. About 15 minutes later Mary called again and said Brian was taking the kids out to the car and threw up in the rosebushes so she was bringing the kids out. Now I do need to tell you Monday, the day after Halloween, Charlie started throwing up all evening. We just thought it was too much candy on Halloween. Well, I guess we were wrong. Before Mary left for work, she turned on the heat because Brian was so cold. After I came back from taking Kylie to school, I started making dinner because I was going to take Kylie to the dentist after school and wouldn't have time to make it later. Bob was watching the little ones downstairs. At lunch Mary went home to check on Brian, she walked in the house and smelled gas. Brian was still sleeping. Mary called Laclede Gas and they came out immediately but did tell her she should get out of the house. Brian said he was too sick to get out of bed. Mary opened all the windows. Laclede Gas said something was wrong with their furnace. Mary called their furnace company and they said they would be out this evening. Now Mary was panicking because what if they didn't have a furnace what were they going to do. Mary knew she could come here or her parents home. We volunteered to keep the 2 little ones and Mary's Mom would keep Leah. Now it is 3pm, time for me to go get Kylie and take her to the dentist to see if he should pull her other tooth from when she knocked out the other two teeth. Before I left, I went in to wake up Dylan from his nap, when I opened the door I was knocked over by the smell of poop. Also, Charlie was awake, so I figured it was him. I was wrong, it was both of them. Charlie had a bad case of diarrhea and Dylan just some poop but also peed in his bed. I am trying to clean up both of them before I had to leave. Dylan is crying and I just placed him on Bob's lap and hoped for the best. I gave Bob the instructions about putting the chicken in the oven at 4pm. I took Kylie to the dentist and they decided not to pull her tooth, he thought Kylie would be able to get it out in time. I was on my way home around 4:10pm. I called Bob to tell him and he did not answer the phone. I tried again in about 10 minutes and he told me Sissy puked all over the family room rug. I said I would be there in 5 minutes. When I walked in Bob was on the floor trying to clean up puke. Kensey was on the porch barking, Dylan and Charlie were on the couch watching cartoons and Sissy was in the bathroom sitting in front of the toilet. I went for Sissy. It was the most pitiable thing I ever saw, Sissy was sitting on the stool leaning over the toilet. She looked up at me and said, "I am sick because I didn't wash my hands after I went to the bathroom." I hugged her and took her into the Tinkerbell room where I gave her a container to throw up in and turned on cartoons for her. I checked on Bob and the boys and how dinner was progressing. Now I am starting to get a headache. Mary called about the furnace, they need a new one and don't know when they will get one, the furnace company is supposed to call back by tonight. I told her about Sissy and she asked if she should come get her, Sissy was still ok to stay here for the night. I told her we would be ok. I went to check on Sissy and she had thrown up in the container and was back watching tv, she did not even call me and tell me she got sick again. She is something else. I cannot believe she doesn't even cry. It is 4:30 and Julie just arrived. I finished dinner and we ate. I am starting to feel nauseous but just thinking it is all this commotion. Sissy has now fallen asleep in bed. I went to get my shower. Bob and Julie are giving Charlie and Dylan a bath, cleaning up from dinner and Julie is working with Kylie on her homework. Kylie is complaining of a headache and Julie took her temp. and it was 99. Now Dylan is complaining about his stomach hurting. Since Dylan and Charlie wouldn't eat dinner with us. Julie is fixing them both cereal. Julie left our home about 6:30pm. I was just picking up a little and Bob put Charlie down around 7pm. Now Sissy is awake and just watching cartoons, never complaining about anything. She is just content watching cartoons. I put pjs on her so she is ready for bed. I think she is done throwing up. I went to bed around 8pm because I was still feeling nauseous. Around 9pm it hit me, I ran into the bathroom and started throwing up. I had Bob call Julie and tell her she needed to get someone to watch the kids because I wouldn't be able too. She said Dylan is throwing up now. At 11pm I threw up again and then it hit Bob around midnight. Again for me around 2am, it was the worse I ever experienced. Then I started the other end, that was lovely. I called Brian around 6am because I didn't think I could even get up and help the two little ones. Brian said he was better, it lasts 12 hours and then you are ok. He said he would be out. He got here about 6:30am and took the 2 little ones home. Sissy was feeling better but Charlie still had diarrhea. Brian was feeling just weak but ok. Thursday Bob and I just sipped Gatorade and pretzels. We slept on and off all day. We slept all night and Kensey woke us both up at 3am to go out. Bob took her out and I got up and thought I would try coffee. It tasted pretty good. Bob ate some dry cereal. I think we are better today. Still a little weak but on the mend. I just don't want another day like that.
The Saga Continues:
So I thought since I feel so good today Friday, Nov. 5th, I would call Julie and tell her I will take Kylie to school. She said she would call me back and let me know. At 6:30am, she called back from home and said she was sick and Nick would bring Kylie over for me to take her to school. Julie was sick and staying home with Dylan. Kylie came and said her stomach hurts but Kylie always says this, I fixed french toast her favorite and said she couldn't eat it and wanted to lay down. I said can I fix you something else, she said oatmeal. I fixed the oatmeal and she ate 3 bites and couldn't eat anymore. Julie called and asked if I would come over and feed Dylan, she didn't feel good enough to do it. I took Kylie to school and went over to Julie's. In the meantime, Mary said they had to take her car to get fixed by our house and since they don't have heat at their house and they are getting a furnace today, she asked it they could leave Iris at our house. Brian dropped Iris off at our house and then went home. I was at Julie's fixing Dylan some breakfast when Julie called me upstairs, school called Kylie threw up. I went and got Kylie and took her home and took Dylan to my house. Soooooo who is next???? Mary, Leah or Nicholas, these are the only 3 that have not succumbed to this horrible illness.
The Saga keeps continuing:
We had a committment for Friday night we felt we had to go to, it was like a cocktail party and Brian and Mary were going with us. We were able to get ready to go and arrived at 6:30pm. We ate a few things and I was starting to feel better but after an hour, Bob said, I am ready to go home. We got home and Bob went to bed. At 2:30am I ran to the bathroom with more diahrrea. Saturday, Bob and I were feeling rotten again. We could hardly do anything. About 9am Brian called, Leah threw up. Talked with Julie, she was a little better and so was Kylie but Nicholas had diahrrea. So the only one not touched so far is Mary. Mary you win!
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