That sickness bugs are the worst......

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In bed with dd...it's 3am. She's been up with diarrhoea...back asleep now. Only a matter of time before the sickness arrives. Bowel and towels at the ready. Her tummy sounds like a washing machine.

Laid in bed wondering how long it's going to last, if the rest of us will escape it

Urgh I just hate it, as soon as one of the dcs are sick, I immediately begin feeling sick too. Anyone else do this?

We're usually pretty good with sickness but this is the 4th sickness bug she's had in the last 12 months.

I just feel it's one of those things about parenting that I just fall apart with. Give me a snotty nose any day over sick 😷

Honestly feel for you...hopefully it's gets better soon. My dd aged 1 has had a fever for 3 days and won't sleep. I feel so sorry for young kids it's absolutely awful. Parenting is soooo hard btw.

I feel your pain - i hope you dont all get it and I hope your DD feels well again soon.

DD2 was sent home from nursery Thursday afternoon with the bug. I thought we where over the worst of it but she woke a few hours ago with another bout, finally got her settled again now I'm down in the bathroom listening to my stomach go wild knowing the vomiting is going to start any minute now.

Oh no, I hope you are ok. Hugs x

My husband and I once spent our wedding anniversary holding hands all night, in the throes of one of the worst sickness bugs we'd ever had, kindly given to us by a guest we'd hosted a few days before.

It was truly romantic 🤣

10000% the worst type of illness. I absolutely dread it and I'm already getting anxious because we haven't had one for quite a while so we must be due one. Ugh x

I have emetophobia and health anxiety, and I am fully in agreement that these bugs are the worst. @Ludwig1 we also haven’t had one for ages, since the nursery days (DC are now 8 and 5) so I just know one will happen soon

I do feel with our whole immune systems knocked since covid, my kids have most definitely suffered with more bugs than ever before. Sickness bugs, colds etc.

My youngest has woken up with ear ache, he's just got over a long 3 week cold.

The sickness bugs going round do seem to be 24 hours at the most here but it's still awful. I spend days after deep cleaning the house as it just feel everything is covered in sicky germs 🦠

My dd actually held off the sickness. No idea how.
Head in a bowl a couple of times but nothing came up. Still bad at the other end though bless her

We just got over this one. I had it first, 24 hours after I had stopped DD was up all night vomiting.

She was alright after 48 hours, still off her food a few days later though.

Hope it passes soon for you.

Tummy bugs are miserable. I've had them so bad I couldn't even think.

But my DF used to always say "better out than in". Not that it's much comfort when you are in the throes of it all

I hope you are all soon well.

I hate, hate, hate sickness bugs, OP. I would rather have practically anything else. When my children were little I seemed to have one nearly every month, and I had no help locally - family lived 200+ miles away, and you can hardly ask a friend to come into a house of vomiting and diarrhoea.

When I started my teaching career, I was highly conscientious and went in with all kinds of bugs...but when I got a stomach bug, I had to find a time between rushing to the lav, throw on some clothes and rush out to the phone box (days before mobiles and it was a grotty bedsit with no landline) and phone the school to say I couldn't get in (while holding my sphincter as tight as I could). The Head let a few seconds of silence pass and then said 'Nevertheless, I'd appreciated it if you could come in", and put the phone down. Needless to say, I didn't - had to rush home to throw up etc etc. I can only assume she'd never had a stomach bug.

Tummy bugs are the absolute pits and are totally non--negotiable in terms of going to work or anywhere else. I always think I'm dying!