Everyone is Always Sick

So as Sandlin mentioned, this whole illness saga starts last week on Sunday evening after Matt and Sandlin had gone home. I had a rough day, I just felt awful. Body aches all over, though no sore throat, which is what I normally get when I have a cold. I was still blowing my nose every 30 seconds from the previous cold, so I thought maybe I was having a relapse from that virus. I felt really achy, but I did my best to help around the house. Tyler was having kind of a rough day too. He was chewing a lot and generally fussy, so we thought he might have been teething, but he didn't have a fever either so we thought he would be okay. Jess and I got tired early, though, so I took a dose of Nyquil and we both went to sleep at something like 7:30 on Sunday.

At about 8:30 I woke up with a really grumpy stomach. I went over to the toilet, made some unhappy sounds, and then threw up. Jess came over to comfort me, and I went back to bed eventually, only to be awakened a few minutes later by her throwing up everything in her stomach.

Uh oh.

This continued for the rest of the night, though I'm convinced Jess got the worst of it. She had to use the bathroom several times more, where as I just spent the rest of the evening waking up every hour in the throws of some strange fever dream. I had to make couscous for some people who had gotten hit by an avalanche, and for some reason that involved waking up and going to the bathroom. Thank heavens Tyler didn't seem to have it. He still slept all night.

So morning comes, and Jess and I are *wiped out*. We have no energy, and Tyler is waking up. It took me 10 minutes to summon up the energy to go get my glasses and put on my robe. Jess manages to get Tyler up, changed, and fed, but we're not sure how we're going to take care of him today, and work is off the table. Fortunately, we gathered ourselves up enough to get him to day care, where he had a pretty good day. We, on the other hand, mostly slept. We got a text from Sandlin at some point telling us that she and Matt had picked something up and were also throwing up back home. So, yeah, it was probably something we ate, but we don't really know what.

Anyway, by the end of monday we had stored up enough energy to go get Tyler from day care...or at least Jessie had. She let me nap some more. Then tuesday came along and Jess and I felt good enough to at least be physically present at work, though not exactly bastions of production. Tyler, on the other hand, was having a rough day at school. So we grabbed him, took him to the doctor and yep, ear infection. Two of them, in fact. So he's on 10 days of antibiotics for that.

After that, at least, things have gotten better a little bit every day. Tyler hasn't even needed that much baby Tylenol, so his ears are improving, and since we had a well-(ish)-baby checkup this friday where his ears are looking better and so...we gave him four shots. Rough week for the kid. But think of that powerful immune system! Jess and I are feeling better, too, but I'm not sure how much I trust my food at this point. A lot of leftovers got thrown out.

We may have been a little early on our purchase of a front-facing car seat for him. He only weighs about 18 pounds, and the minimum weight fort eh new seat is 24. So his ridiculous growth has leveled out somewhat, and he's 'only' in the 95th percentile for height at this point, 28.5 inches. He's in the 100th percentile for cute, though. That's on his chart.

In other news, I don't have any video games to play this weekend, not because there aren't any, there are, but because I'm tricking myself into tackling a few other projects. One is a theme song for Ticom Geomatics. Think 'mickey mouse club' but for defense contractors. I've almost got the lyrics and a first guess at the melody worked out. The other I'll leave as a surprise. Jess is headed off to backed track Derby practice, so clearly she's feeling better. We're mostly just excited about having things get back to something more like 'normal' for a little while.

-N