Sickness

Sickness took the Porter household last week.  It all started on Sunday.  Noah woke up several times in the night, coughing and saying he didn't feel good.  Then around 4am, he started throwing up.  On dad, to be specific.  He continued throwing up all day long and wasn't eating anything.  He couldn't even keep water down.  I went to the store and got some Pedialyte but of course, he refused to drink it.  At least he was drinking water pretty heavily. 

We had to email our Sunday School director and inform her that we wouldn't be teaching that morning.  Emilee seemed fine, but later she also developed some diarrehea.  Poor kids. 

At least Noah seemed to be making it to the potty and trash can most times. 

And then Monday he seemed better.  Started eating more and no vomiting.  So we thought "great, we could send them back to daycare on Tuesday".  Monday night, I started feeling quesy so I went to bed and an hour later, woke up vomiting.  I tried so hard to avoid it, but I guess I was destined to have it.  I threw up several times until my stomach was in so much pain.  I'm serious when I say the pain was worse than labor pains. 

I took some Tylenol and thankfully, I didn't throw it up and I finally fell asleep around 4 am.  I clearly was not going to work.  When the kids got up, Noah threw up again.  That meant he wasn't going to school.  So we decided David was going to take the day off to take care of me and Noah.  About an hour later, he threw up.

We ended up calling David's mom and my dad to come help since it's really hard to take care of 2 young ones when you yourself are sick.  David and I both had fevers (the kids just had elevated temps, never a fever).  The next day, Noah and David were fine to go back to normal activity.  I probably could have but I took advantage and took one more day, which was actually my first PTO day. 

I ended up going back to work Thursday and Friday and now I am fine.  Noah and Emilee both still have these chronic runny noses.  Not sure if that is related to whatever virus they had or just the weather???  Noah also complains about a tummy ache a couple times a day.  I'm convinced that he is just using that as an excuse for attention.

Hopefully we all stay healthy through the Holidays and then next year.  I have to work Mon, Wed, and Fri this week and then both David and I are off through the new year.  Next year, I will start working 5 days a week, although only 40 hours at first.  The plan going forward is to work full-time (either 40 or 55 hours in busy season) except for the summer (Memorial Day to Labor Day).  Then I'll work 3 days a week.