Make it stop!
The last couple of days have been enough to drive me batty. I won’t get into too much fine detail but I’ve had to deal with way more bodily fluids than any mother should be subjected to. Last night, as I was getting ready to go to bed, it started. Iz was suddenly standing in front of me with her PJ bottoms covered in diarrhea. Needless to say her bed was also covered so I stripped her bed and gave her a shower. I dried her off, gave her some fresh clothes and dried her hair. I asked Jeff if he could move out to the couch so she and I could sleep in our bed since I was short on linens from the night before. Crisis over.
Yeah, right.
Just as I was adjusting to the mask and starting to nod off, Gracie appeared in the bedroom doorway announcing that she had vomited. It was bad. It was all over the room and her so into the tub she went. I wasn’t even sure where to begin or what to tackle first. Not two minutes after I put Gracie in the tub and was rinsing something out in the sink, Iz was in the bathroom doorway. If you guessed that she got sick, you are correct. How lovely that it was now in my room, on my bed and my sheets.
I wanted to cry.
I put Iz in the tub and hurried and cleaned what was in my room because at this point all three of us were going to have to sleep in that bed. Back to the tub I went and washed the girls, dried them off, changed them, dried their hair and then we headed back to my bedroom. I changed the sheets, put some towels on the bed for backup and we nodded off. I warned them that there was probably going to be snoring because as luck would have it, Iz also threw up on my CPAP machine. Good times! It was probably well after 4am by the time I got to bed after all was said and done.
Today I had the pleasure of getting up much too early because Jeff had to work. I managed to get some laundry started but not much else. He got off work early today and I was so happy to see him. I sneaked off for a nap and the next thing I knew it was 6pm. I hate when I nap too long because I get all topsy-turvy but I was also exhausted.
One nice thing to happen today was that my friend Sandy called and we caught up on things. She’s my best friend from back when I was seven. (I just realized that we’ve known each other for 30 years this September!) We’ve lost touch lately and our lives have been hectic so it was nice to catch up. Well, I shouldn’t exactly use the term nice because she shared some news about her mom being ill and that’s never a good thing. I caught her up as much as I could without keeping her on the phone for six months of back story. I told her about my mom, my brother, the build, the housing stuff etc., etc. After our recounting our woes, these are the times I miss watching General Hospital on her parent’s old brown couch eating bologna sandwiches and drinking Kool-Aid on summer vacation. At least that’s what I ate. After growing up in a traditionally Hungarian household, bologna and Kool-Aid were very exotic to me. She probably thought it was gross and ate something more palatable like peanut butter and jelly. But I digress.
After my phone call, I finished cleaning up the girls’ room and finally got them to bed. All is well, no? No. About an hour later I hear Gracie in the kitchen quietly trying to tell us that she just threw up.
GAH!
I told Jeff to give her a shower and I headed straight to her bed to clean it up. Thankfully Iz rolled over and went back to sleep. She’s now on the couch sleeping out here for the night. Please please please let this be over finally.
