We have just been dealing with round after round of sickness here. If every December turns out like this, I will very much hate the month that used to be my favorite.
Between all the snowstorms, we've had a horrible stomach bug ravage the house. Poor Westley has had his fair share with it, to the point where I wondered if he would just always have stomach issues because his bout with it lasted 13 days. Yes, 13 DAYS!
It all started on December 15th, the day of the Voice Male concert. I was driving Corey to work so that we wouldn't have to drive separate cars home from our date. The plan was to get up early, eat, and take him down to work and then drive back up to drop Westley off at school, preferably by 8:30, but probably he would be a little tardy.
On the way home from dropping Corey off in Orem, Westley threw up in the car. I chalked it up to motion sickness because Westley is especially prone to it, he was bundled up in all his snow clothes (this corresponded with one of those snow storms) and the heater was on, plus we'd been in the car for nearly an hour. When we got home, he threw up one more time, and I let him lay low until taking Caleb to school later, thinking that he just needed some time to get over the motion sickness. I was in the office checking him in when he told me he didn't feel very good and didn't want to stay at school, so he came home. For the next 12 days, he had episodes of vomiting and diarrhea between periods where he felt fine and even ate normal food. He never had a fever, never acted lethargic, so I was unsure if it was a stomach bug.
On my birthday, December 21st, he had a really bad bout of vomiting in the morning, so I took him to the doctor. By the time we got to the appointment, he was acting perfectly fine and felt perfectly fine, so I even dropped him off at school later that day, after the doctor confirmed it was just a virus, he wasn't dehydrated and he was fine. He missed four days of school over a period of six days. Yet he was well enough a lot of the time, that it just didn't seem like a virus.
Eliza had diarrhea on Wednesday, the 22nd and then threw up, but she has been fine ever since. Caleb had a bout of diarrhea on Christmas day, but then he has been fine since. I even got the bug on Monday, December 28th, which started with diarrhea then I had severe vomiting later that night that lasted all night long and went to Urgent Care yesterday to get i.v. fluids and a Zofran drip for the nausea. Travis started with the diarrhea on Monday and it has continued since then, today is day #3 and now he's also throwing up.
So I guess it was a virus, but Westley had it so long that we took him in on Monday, December 27th, to get tested for other things. He has a UTI, which is rare in boys, so that is also being analyzed for possible kidney problems, and is being tested for a number of other issues that might cause vomiting. But more than likely, he just had several rounds of the virus. I guess he was due, since he hadn't been sick for almost two years, not even a cough. Poor kid.
I just hope that Travis recovers quickly and then we can be done with it.
Did I mention how much I hate stomach bugs? I think they are the worst kind of normal illness that we tend to get. Compared with croup, sinus infections, even ear infections, and other types of lung issues and stuff, I really don't like dealing with stomach bugs. They always go through everyone and seem to take forever to eradicate from the house and by the time we're done with it, I'm so stressed out by it that I'm paranoid it's going to come back, so every little toot or burp, I'm afraid will turn back into diarrhea and vomiting.
Hoping to never have another December like this.
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