You're glad you don't live at my house

This week has been one of the hardest weeks I have endured as a parent so far. On Saturday night M came down with the stomach flu, in the middle of the night, in his bed. That, I have had to deal with before. Kevin and I have our roles worked out. One of us takes care of the child while the other quickly changes the bed and starts the load of laundry. We set up a bucket next to the bed and M managed to be sick in it 3 times. We cleaned everything up. Disinfected. You know the drill. It has worked for us for the 8 years we have had kids. Till this week. This week we weren't dealing with a run of the mill stomach flu, we were dealing with the Granddaddy of 'em all, the Norwalk virus. I had no idea!

It was like a scene from a horror movie. Monday afternoon, D came home from school at 1pm and is throwing up by 2. Kevin came home from work at 3pm and is throwing up by 4. I had a knot in my stomach and spent an hour telling myself it was just nerves, I am freaking out that the baby might get sick. By 6 pm I had joined the ranks of the sick. It isn't pretty. Other than the baby the only one not sick is M. I call my in-laws to come and get him. They take him and keep him till the next evening (thank goodness for that). I had set up in D2's room and told Kevin and D to stay out. I hoped that if he only had contact with me it would lessen his chances of getting sick. I spent 6 hours nursing D2 and throwing up. It was horrible. I would not wish this on my worse enemy. By midnight I was done. I was so dehydrated I could barely walk and I couldn't lift D2. Thankfully he managed to stay in the same diaper all night with no leaks. Small miracle.

To add insult to injury at around midnight that night the city started cleaning our street. Those street cleaning machines are REALLY FREAKING LOUD and it felt like they parked outside D2's window for HOURS! I barely slept all night between the street cleaning, nursing and just feeling like crap. The next day D2 was a dream napper and gave me a 2 hour nap in the morning and another in the afternoon. If only our neighbours weren't getting their roof done at the same time! We did sleep, but it wasn't the restful slumber we had hoped for. All 4 of us spent Tuesday in bed or doing laundry. Thankfully our new washer has a sanitize option on it so we sanitized all our sheets, towels and clothing we had been wearing. I am not usually a harsh cleaner sort of gal, but we pulled out the Mr Clean and Lysol and went over every surface. I don't EVER want to run into this virus again.

It is Friday and I finally feel somewhat like normal again. The dehydration was the worse of it and it was hard to get on top of it while nursing D2. I am glad that he didn't get sick. I don't even want to think about it. Boy am I glad this week is over, and we can focus on a warm and fun long weekend. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger... or some crap like that right... oh bullocks it was just horrible!

Happy Easter to everyone. Have a safe, fun and healthy weekend!