My Time with the Stomach Flu

I have the stomach flu. I have not had it this bad since I was in grade school.

Saturday night, I woke up at around 12am. I started to feel nauseated. I took some diclecitin, thinking it was just pregnancy related. About half an hour later, Brandon woke up and came to see me. I thought about having him just sleep next to me. But I felt so awful, I couldn't lie down anymore. I opted to watch some TV with Brandon till Lee came home.

About 5 minutes later, Brandon threw up all over himself, the loveseat and the floor. I was missed, luckily. Brandon didn't freak out too badly. Probably because the TV was pacifing him. I went into damage control mode. In the midst of it, I could feel my vomit coming. I barely made it to the bathroom. All my super came up. Now, I was dizzy and tummy remained unhappy.

I called Lee and told him to get home ASAP. Thankfully, the movie had just finished and he was on his way. Before Lee got home, I threw up again. Now all my super was gone. Not as pleasant coming up.

Lee came home and his turn to be sick. He had the flu too mixed with unsetttling attempt at trying Ethoipian food. Not a good combination for a sensitive tummy. Lee was feeling a bit better than I so he did as much cleaning up as he could.

I tried nursing a 7-Up, but I kept throwing up every 20 minutes. Nothing was staying down. But I had no fever, so there was no reason to take tylenol and the diclectin came up already, I wasn't going to take anything else.

Later on after Brandon was asleep, Lee and I attempted to go to sleep. Well, Lee might have got some rest, I on the other hand, was vomitting every 15 to 20 minutes. I did this for the next 5 hours. I was dry heaving and all that came up was bile. Hmmm...pleasant. My biggest concern now, was being dehydrated. If this went on too long, then what would that do to the baby.

At around 6am, Lee called Leah to come over early to get me to the hospital. I went in at around 7:15am and was immedietly brought up to the case room. The baby was fine, but I was still vomitting every 20 mintues. I can't imagine there was much left in me. But it kept coming anyway.

The wonderful nurses hooked me up to an IV right away and gave me a shot of gravol. Ah...sweet gravol. It helped enough. If I kept absolutly still, my tummy settled and I was able to get some sleep. I drifted for about a couple hours. They dismissed me saying I had the stomach flu. Cause now Leah was sick and vomitting. So I was sick and making everyone around me so.

Leah and I, fairly quickly and got back to my house before 11am. I collapsed in bed. Leah stayed and rested on the couch. Lee was left with looking after Brandon (who was feeling 10x better. He was happy and playing. ) I felt like I was dying.

Lee's mom came over. I sent Lee out for some gravol. I popped those pills as often as I could.

Brandon was brought over to the grandparents place to stay for the day. The rest of us were able to sleep as much of the flu off as possible.

We all woke around 4pm and had about as much rest as we could handle. We opted to distract ourselves with a few episodes of 'Blood Ties'. Henry Fitzroy helped us get through a few hours of crappiness.

Brandon came home and I went to bed. Brandon missed us both. It was hard for him to understand why mommy wasn't around.

But I must say, the stomach flu is the worst thing to get when you are pregnant. Pregnancy related vomitting and nausea is nasty enough without a bug. Everytime I vomitted, I knew it wasn't over. My stomache churned the ENTIRE TIME. No rest was possible until after the hospital visit and all they did was give me fluids and gravol.

Today, I have made it passed the worst of it. Now, I need to concentrate on getting better and getting my strength back. And I feel really bad that we all made Leah sick too. Not the thing you want to share with anyone.