We recently got back from a wonderful visit to see the Schells in Rolla, Missouri. When we returned home, I felt a little nauseated. I decided I would go on to bed because I had to be up early to work the next morning. I felt cold and just couldn't seem to get warm. I woke up and was wide awake at 1:00 am the next morning. I piddled around for a while and began feeling progressively worse. I shivered, had major stomach crampage, and writhed around the bed trying desparately to get warm. My head hurt, my eyes hurt, my skin hurt... does any of this sound familiar to you? Well, to make a long and dreadful story short, I had a flu-like virus for about 48 hours. I had to miss work and send the girls to Tara's house so a responsible human being could watch them. Jeff felt fine and headed off to work. I slept and laid in bed all day. I don't think I ate much but I did have the energy to shower and go back to bed.
Jeff and the girls came home that afternoon. I gave them a nutritious dinner of "find whatever you can, I'm going back to bed". Poor children. Poor Jeff. I didn't give the girls baths. I warned Tara that they might be stinky. Then, Jeff started his shivering and downhill spiral.
The next day, both of us didn't even have the energy to take the girls somewhere they could be watched properly. I slept all day off and on. Reili slept beside me as long as I slept. Jeff kept Maya entertained with PBS kids until the cooking shows came on in the afternoon. I finally got up to see how everyone was doing. No Maya or Jeff. Where could they be?
Apparently Maya got into trouble and Jeff put her in "time out" in her bedroom. Since he didn't have the energy to monitor this ingenious method of discipline, he had to go to her room with her. He decided to wrap himself in a huge blanket, lay on Maya's bedroom floor, and close them both in the room. That would show her.
I found him wadded up in a lethargic pile against the door while Maya was playing quietly with her toys. Man, we should be voted as parents of the year. Would you vote for us?
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Ohhhhh, yuck. I feel for you. I am just finally feeling better myself after having been sick for what felt like a month.
I'm sure the kids are fine - thank goodness for PBS Kids, right?
oh that sucks. I'm glad that they were both nice for you.
There isn't much worse than the flu. Congratulations to both of you for managing to take care of the two girls at all when you're that sick!
You poor things! I hope you feel better soon!!!
Oh, that is the worst! I hope you are all feeling better now!
We have had similar symptoms this week as well. Tom had a low grade fever on Wednesday night and was nauseated and missed work on Thursday. We both had severe stomach cramping and I got chills and could not get warm Wednesday night. I wonder where we picked up this bug. I hope you are feeling better now. I am, but Tom is still fighting off something.
I think that this situation happens at least once in a parent's lifetime. With us is was food poisoning and we poured Cheerios and bananas on the coffee table for Jeremy to fend for himself while we wondered if we were going to survive. Thank goodness for in-laws that rescued him later that day.
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