to ask you to save me. Vomiting, croup, manflu.

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Total pity post. Mostly light hearted. Amusing distractions very welcome.

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We should have a red cross painted on our front door.

We (DHL, DS and I) have had a flurry of illnesses pretty much all winter. DS is two and in nursery part time, so he brings home every bug going. My immune system is a bit shot from being run down and overtired for 2 years, cracking my ribs over Christmas and general festive stress.

DS had croup over Christmas. Poor mite could barely sleep for making seal noises and neither did we. We've all had endless coughs and colds that never seem to fully go away. Last week was supposed to be my first week back at work and I came down with a fluey virus that wiped me out - achey, temp, sore throat, slept for three days. Started to feel better on Friday, enjoyed being happy mummy again for a total of two days and now this.

I started vomiting at 5pm and can't stop. No water stays in me. I am shitting water every 20 minutes.

DH said he had 'an upset stomach' this afternoon and took himself off to bed for two hours while I tried to convince DS I was fine and to play with his trains at the other end of the bathroom while I had my head firmly down the bog. DH emerged from bed to confirm that he had in fact not been sick, just "felt a bit icky all day". I put DS to bed as he was crying for me (after much handwashing, clothes changing and trying not to breathe on him) and now it sounds like his croup is back.

It's like the somme in here. I'm considering taking myself out to lie under a hedge and vom and shit myself in peace until it passes.

Please talk me down, tell me your sick house horror stories to cheer me up, or give me a good kick up the arse (bit mind your toes)!

Oh no poor you. Keep drinking and look after yourself as much as you can.

We all got swine flu when dd was a newborn and ds was 3 . Over Christmas too. Ds ended up with pneumonia and we got snowed in.

It was shit but we survived and I only slightly twitch at the memory now.

Take it in shifts with your husband if he's actually sick or just go to bed if he's better.

It's bloody hard on everyone though when you get a long period of feeling rubbish.

Antibac gel and sprays will be your faithful companions for a bit.

If it's any consolation, I nearly called an ambulance because of croup as I thought DS was having an asthma attack. In my defence, my mum actually has asthma and that's exactly the sound she makes.

Thank you. DH is not sick, just under the weather really. But he sleeps like the dead sob you can bet it will be me who wakes up to the seal barks.

On the plus side, I managed to successfully turn from vomiting down to sitting on the loo in one quite balletic movement. Win for the day.

I'd wake him up simply because moving when nauseous triggers vomiting episodes for me.

I feel your pain as DP is exactly the same. Or randomly imagines hearing DS on the camera in his dreams so he wakes me up to check [hmmm].

Oh dear! We've been in similar circumstances and now looking back we laugh at the awful awfulness of it!

Have you got a bucket so you can sit on the loo and puke in a bucket? After many a nursery bug I now line bathroom bins so we can quickly whip the bag out and have a handy vomiting receptacle.

I wish you luck!!

Wow you have all been hit hard, so sorry for you.

I remember one spectacular invasion of germs that had so much vom running through the house one night, that I ran out of clean sheets, DS 1 was sleeping on towels (layered so he could just take the top one of if it got manky, DS2 asked for a bed in the bathroom - just piled up more towels. DS3 had a rubbish bin by his bed as I didnt have enough buckets (luckily it was an ikea plastic one and turned out to be surprising effective). DD managed to avoid it all, thankfully as she was just 3 months. I staggered through 2 days and then succumbed as the boys recovered. That is when DS1 learned to make a cup of tea, as it is all I could face.