FriYaY

[tgrimes]

The weekend is near!

[tgrimes]

How is C this morning? danib

[tgrimes]

My sister left this morning and I dropped the kids off at school/daycare. I’m going to clean the house, do laundry, clean out the fridge, etc.

Super exciting day over here!

[danib]

Mar 22, 2019 8:29:03 GMT -6 tgrimes said:

How is C this morning? danib

He's pretty good. Getting bored though. H has a cold and is honestly more fussy with that than C is with pneumonia lol. I've had many teas already.

[goldenlove]

Work has been a shitshow the past two days. I also finally had my review with my boss this morning and it went well. But I went back to my desk and we got an email from the CEO that essentially said don't expect a good bonus because the company didn't meet goals. I mean I'll be grateful for anything but it sucks when they talk about how great things are all year until the week before bonuses go out. Also probably means no raises.

My boss also told us yesterday that the company is on a hiring freeze and from his experience being here for 30+ years and through many ups and downs, this is the beginning of a slow downturn. We kind of saw this coming with the current administration and how other automotive companies are going. Hopefully things turn around before it gets too bad.

On the plus side, we're getting Mexican for lunch today. I'm starving.

[waitwhat]

Hi. Nothing new here. It's an exciting life I live.

[danib]

goldenlove it really sucks that you are working hard and doing well, but don't get rewarded due to other people's actions.

[tgrimes]

Mar 22, 2019 8:35:25 GMT -6 danib said:

Mar 22, 2019 8:29:03 GMT -6 tgrimes said:

How is C this morning? danib

He's pretty good. Getting bored though. H has a cold and is honestly more fussy with that than C is with pneumonia lol. I've had many teas already.

I’d be slipping something in that tea...

[cookswithwine]

Longest. day. ever! Getting together with some daycare families for dinner/let the kids play on the play ground. No awesome plans this weekend. Next weekend is jam packed though.

[Cheshie6]

Kind of long day... Had swim lessons this AM and it’s a hard class. But my boss is offering me a really cool opportunity to get kids ready for swim team. Most Y’s don’t have great lessons to swim team program because their designed for safety around water. So my job will be to help the level 6 kids who want to, get prepared for swim team.

Otherwise a quiet day!

[kleigh]

FAAAAAAACK

Thank God this week is over. The never needing puke fest week. I know there are people dealing with much worse, but relative to my 2.5 yr experience as a mom... that FUCKING SUCKED balls.

The whole gory novel for anyone who wants to feel better about a shitty week they were having. And I’m memorializing so the etc time I think I’m having a rough day I’ll come back and go “nah, still doesn’t beat Stomach Flu of 2019.

SPOILER: Click to show

So basically Monday 3am AB woke up vomiting. Not your typical vomit once or twice, but like gagging, can’t breathe, is this kid aspirating all of this, every half hour for 5 hours puke session. BC AV had been up at1:30 anyway and couldn’t go back to sleep, she heard all this going on at 3am right as she was falling asleep. So there she stands in the bathroom every time AB starts up again crying and asking if AB is ok. So I WFH Monday

Monday night AB pitches a 102 fever. I dose him around12am, and go back to sleep. Then I hear MH barfing in the bathroom about 2am. Up and help him out. Clean up. AV wakes up at 4:30am. I somehow get to work. Get a 911 text at 1;30 that AV is puking and crying for me. Now MH has the fever and is apparently incapable of anything. I now realize my fate is sealed and I stop eating for the day.

Rush home, AV clings onto my for dear life and repeatedly and violently vomits all over me. In my work clothes. Refuses to project her vomit anywhere into a bag, bowl, toilet, or sink - she can, she just won’t.. Hers is every 15-20 minutes. And it terrifies her. So she starts crying when it’s about to happen, clings to me like a koala, and I absolutely cannot pry her off and just keeps puking all over me from 2 - 7pm. Can’t keep a sip of water down. But insists she wants food (bc she thinks it’ll stop her from puking but instead keeps making her puke). So I fight her on not being allowed to have food, only sips of water.

We’re still on Tuesday. Its 7pm. She’s just stopped. I tell MH we need to get them to bed ASAP bc now my stomach feels like it’s being ripped to shreds and my turn is coming. They pass right out.

TMI AHEAD. I spend the next two hours waiting and waiting to get this over with bc my stomach is in such bad pain that I’m near tears. Except I haven’t eaten, so when it finally starts it comes as dry heave and diarrhea, then comes the vomit. Yay. I am the lucky one stuck on a toilet and simultaneous puking into a bowl as I hear AV call out for me.

It’s still Tuesday.

I rush to AV and she’s crying and now she has a fever. Run downstairs, dose her, and run backto the bathroom...again and again.

It’s wednesday morning. I get out of bed and immediately couple over and have to sit on the floor and lay flat bc I’m actually about to faint. That not eating thing prob wasn’t smart. Except now I’m still queasy and sufficiently enough that I can’t eat.

I tell my boss I’ll be WFH/PTO as needed the rest of the week.

There’s puke remnants all over, like no one was bleaching crap before during and after. I can’t even see where the remnants are. AV was the worst culprit bc we were downstairs in the LR, Kitchen area. The desire to clean, within hours after puking and feeling like you still have to puke, is like a negative 400. And laundry. So much laundry.

And I still have to parent ? And get work done? But they aren’t fully recovered, so they’re hungry, but afraid to eat, and whiny, and don’t want to do anything but cuddle... but cuddling is the last thing I want to do.

Thursday, I am home alone with them. I make three square meals and three snacks. They eat none of it. AV clearly develops some kind of fear to eating. When I put the plate in front of her she covers her mouth. If she burps, she covers her mouth. She won’t eat. She won’t drink (much). I don’t have the time for this bc WFH and cleaning and don’t feel good. The rug is a complete loss. I just can’t even clean it well enough. I roll it up and bring it out to the garage for MH to get rid of. Which leaves us having to shop for a rug when he gets out fo work.

The only thing that gave me the courage to get through WFH alone today was knowing I had a date night (which has been cancelled the last 4 Fridays).. and then I get the call that MIL has it now bc she was here Tuesday with MH. Lovely.

But today was actually slightly better given the way the week has gone. AV still wouldn’t eat much (even when I try to bribe her with her fave foods) but at dinnertime I told her we were going to bed then and daddy and AB were eating dinner. And that got her. She ate several bites of about 4-5 different foods. So I’m hopeful we can move past this.

The idea of drinking doesn’t even sound good bc of that pit feeling of fear of vomiting or gagging.

But I will eat all the fucking shit in the house now that he kids are in bed.

[danib]

Oh my gosh kleigh you sure can paint a picture. You have all my sorries and deserve the most relaxing weekend in existence. I hope everyone feels better.

[waitwhat]

JFC kleigh. You had one hell of a week. I hope you are all on the mend.

Now go chug some vodka. Alcohol kills germs.

[jubilantsquirrel]

goldenlove, my company does that too. "We're doing so great this year!!" And then 10 minutes later "we're cutting bonuses for anyone who isn't in sales". Oh, cool.

kleigh, I mean, damn. You deserve a solo vacation.

[jubilantsquirrel]

Hi.

I'm finally checking in at 9:30pm. I was off work yesterday and today. I spent most of the day baking goodies for a big family dinner tomorrow that no one told me about until yesterday. Other than that I've just been hanging out with my very whiny children.

Oh. We did finally get our car back today! It only took 7.5 weeks.

[cookswithwine]

Omg kleigh! That sounds horrendous

[goldenlove]

Sounds like a great opportunity Cheshie6!

Oh my gosh kleigh. That sounds like pure hell. I'm glad you guys are all feeling better now.

[Cheshie6]

kleigh, I'm sorry that sounds painful!