please help! and i fear it will be long so bear with me if you can...
the week before last ds1 (3.9) had a nasty chesty cough, followed by an afternon and evening complaining of very bad ear ache. he had no temp and was fine in himself and the next morning said the ear pain had gone so we didn't go to docs. he was a degree under at the start of last week, drinking more water than usual (always a sign something is brewing with him) a little bit less of an appetite than normal and pooing up to 4/5/6 times a day rather than his usual once or twice (once even in his pants much to his distress ) not diarrhoea as such but a funny yellow colour nonetheless. he seemed fine in himself so we continued as normal. by thursday he was complaining of severe tummy pain and things were by now very much diarrhoea so we went to the gp. he diagnosed a very bad ear infection and sent us home with antibioics (felt mortified that i hadn't taken him sooner to check his ear). by that evening his fever was hitting 40+, his chesty cough had returned and his poos were getting worse. meanwhile, i started to run a fever of up to 38.4 and developed a nasty, painful chesty cough. friday he was very poorly, lay on the sofa all day with fever, tummy ache, diarrhoea, cough. phoned doctor who said to hang in there but send a stool sample if worried (which i did but no results yet). friday night he vomitted up his nurofen (i should add as an aside that i am an emetephobe, a co-sleeper with ds2 and dh is away for 10 days so am not enjoying myself that much at this stage, and all the while my fever rages on!)
to cut an extremely long story short the poor mite is still having the most awful, explosive, watery, smelly diarrheoa, the likes of which i only remember having on trips to africa or central america. i am getting fluids into him (although he won't touch the dioralyte) and i know it does at first sound 'typical' swine flu but i actually don't think it is swine flu, i think he has 3 different bugs going on at once; an ear infection (which he is prone to) some weird coughing and fever virus (which i and now ds2 have) and thirdly a most unpleasant tummy upset which i imagine will put him in hospital for rehydration if it doesn't stop soon.
so, my question is does any of this sound familiar to anyone and can anyone shed any light as to what the stomach thing might be? i am finding it all getting on top of me now and am really quite worried/exhausted/tearful/ in need of wine but too feverish to drink . he had rotavirus as a baby so i don't think it's that...
also wondering how co-sleepers cope with a poorly older child in the night (and no dp/dh around)...
phew, that was long...