Sickies...

I promise that I will get some pictures of some stuff up soon...but for now; you get to hear about our lovely adventures in "sickville"!

Almost 2 weeks ago both Cole and Ella had a touch of the stomach bug. Cole yacked a few times and Ella only once. It may have been short lived, which we are more than thankful for, but it has left a lasting impression. 1st off, it was Cole's first real sickness. He has had a high fever here and there with no other real symptoms and a runny nose now and then; but this was the first time he vomited and has acted like he really didn't feel good. It was SO sad!! We almost wondered if Ella was just reacting to Cole getting all of the attention and then when she asked for the puke bucket...and threw up, I knew that she didn't feel very good. That was her one and only contribution to the lovely pink basin thank goodness. Cole made jsut a few more deposits...but like I said it was short lived.

Then comes Wednesday when Ella decided that she couldn't pee until "the poopy came out." She went 11 hours without peeing! Her belly looked like she was 8 months pregnant! So we called the doctor and decided to try a round of enemas and Miralax. After some results and finally peeing, we went to bed with visions of poop in our heads. The next day brought more of the same, little poop, distended belly, fever and a little vomiting. Off to the pediatrician we went to find out she was FOS (full of s**t)-literally! The doctor could feel a big poop ball on her lower right side. So we did mega doses of miralax and finally by saturday she was cleaned out and back to normal. The weird part was that on Thursday she acted like she didn't feel good...just laying around all day...and she still had a 99-100 degree fever until last night.

The only problem was...I wasn't! I got to experience a little of what the kids had...the stomahc bug. Realativley mild...but nonetheless miserable. And it made me miss Anna's 1st birthday party on Sunday!

The moral of all of this is...I HATE WINTER! I have finally come to this conclusion because I have put together a web of events that have caused this sickness problem. No parties are fully to blame for any events listed;-)

The dad of the girls that go to the same babysitter as Ella and Cole works in an elementary school...where people send there kids to school when they are sick. He got the stomach bug 2 weeks ago this past sunday. His girls, with no symptoms, went to the babysitter with mine on Tuesday. Tuesday night the girls were sick. Wednesday Ella and Cole were sick. BOO!

We went to the Traders Point Christian Church indoor park on Wednesday of this past week. Ella didn't feel great on thursday, which seems inconsistent with the constipation, and the fever didn't fit constipation either. Saturday I am sick. Turns out that 4 other people that were with us on Wednesday ended up sick this past weekend too. See the coorelation!!!!!!

It makes you not want to go ANYWHERE! Or be the crazy mom that is constantly sanitizing your kids hands and every surface they touch! How do you get over being a germ-a-phobe when you have been victim to the sickies!!! And...if you want to know how I really feel about it...I think people are either oblivious or don't care and take there sick kids out in public anyway!! Not to intentionally get other sick, but because they don't want to disrupt their plans or don't think that there kids are contagious or whatever??!! If its the cough, runny nose stuff that is one thing...but the stomach stuff! YUCK!!

Thanks for the rant...I feel better now!!!