- On Saturday, Isaac got norovirus.
- We did not know, at the time, that it was norovirus.
- We thought he just had a cold and had too much mucus in his system and it was just coming out all ends.
- So we took him to the ER because he couldn’t keep fluids down.
- He could have been there for two hours so that the Zofran would work and he’d be able to drink again.
- By hour five, Kyle called me to ask me to bring Isaac’s usual bottle so that he would drink the fluids.
- So my mom came to put Sam and Carrie to bed while I drove all the way to the hospital.
- Only for Kyle to call as I was about to turn into the parking lot and say that just kidding, Isaac just drank the whole bottle.
- Kyle and I were supposed to go on a date Sunday afternoon, but since Isaac had norovirus, that was out.
- Instead, my dad came over and ate cake, and that was fine.
- Monday was a holiday, and that was fine.
- On Tuesday, Kyle worked from home.
- Which he does every Tuesday.
- So when he finished work, he decided to take Sam to our local CVS to get a flu shot.
- Despite having lost three hours of work to a random power outage halfway through the day.
- (it was also pouring rain)
- They were also going to buy groceries.
- While they were gone, Isaac vomited profusely.
- It was impossible to clean.
- And Sam couldn’t even get his flu shot because the power outage had caused the clinic’s supply to go bad.
- On Wednesday, things mostly seemed normal, except I wasn’t hungry.
- But mostly things were okay.
- My mother visited for an hour in the afternoon, and I had dinner with the kids.
- After dinner, the kids started climbing on my lap.
- I started feeling seasick.
- Uh oh.
- After Kyle got home, I barely made it upstairs before I, too, fell victim to the norovirus.
- Cue six straight hours of running to the toilet every twenty minutes and not being sure which end was exploding.
- (sorry)
- And after that, cue the next eighteen straight hours of brutal muscle aches and a low grade fever.
- Norovirus is a bitch.
- Cue six straight hours of running to the toilet every twenty minutes and not being sure which end was exploding.
- BUT THAT’S NOT ALL!
- Kyle and I share a toilet.
- Sharing a toilet is a good way to pass norovirus from person to person.
- About twelve hours after I first got sick, guess who also got sick?
- (it was neither Sam nor Carrie)
- So now we have two adults sick as can be, zero backup because we’re not inviting people into our plague shack, and three hyperactive children.
- Child Sam is on break from school and will not stop running and scream singing “DIGGY DIGGY HOLE” all the time.
- Child Isaac is HUNGRY but he’s also not 100% feeling better so he’s ANGRY because he doesn’t want any of his usual favorite foods and he’s very tired of Pedialyte.
- Child Carrie is playing with Child Sam all the time at 9000 MPH and scream singing either “INTO THE UNKNOWN” or “BABY SHARK” while running around the living room.
- My head.
- Everyone finally seems somewhat recovered today, Saturday.
- (this after completely losing both Thursday–when Isaac was supposed to have his ABA assessment–and Friday to illness)
- Kyle and I feel well enough to start cleaning up after our illness.
- We start a load of laundry.
- When Kyle goes to switch the laundry, he discovers that the water did not drain.
- He tries to fix the washing machine.
- He finds $5 in change!
- He does not fix the washing machine.
- We cancel tonight’s D&D session so one of us can go to the laundromat.
- At bedtime, we’re changing Isaac.
- He has hives.
- Wtf?
- We have not started new foods.
- We have not used new detergents.
- He is not on new medicine.
- So we call the nurse line.
- Nurse line says that this can happen at the end of a virus and we should give him Benadryl.
- Cool.
- We don’t have Benadryl.
- Everything gets pushed back an hour or so while we hunt down Benadryl and give it to him.
- He has hives.
- Kyle just now got home with the laundry.
- It is 10:30 p.m. on a Saturday.
- I need a vacation.
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