We were all ill over Christmas. This seems to happen every year!

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The title says it all really. DC1 was ill the week leading up to Xmas with horrible unproductive cough and high temp. She was very lethargic and this continued until Xmas Eve then DC2 went down with it.

I am now fighting it as it started Boxing day.

Find it a bit depressing as we are due to go away for a few days today (after flight cancellation weekend before last with snow!).

Husband really grumpy as I have suggested we ccancel as youngest still has cough which goes on and on and on at night! I am full of cold too.

Sorry to moan. Anyone elses Xmas similar?

DS has had something similar - I just posted on another thread that he has been wearing PJs since Dec 21st!

I found Tixylix Night Cough medicine good for DS at night time and Chesty Cough for daytime. Also gave him a couple of spoonfuls of Sudafed on nights where he was particularly bunged up.

Not sure how old your DCs are and if you can give things like that. DS is 9. Oh - lots of Vicks on his chest at night too.

Yes DH and DS1 have both had this, been dragging on for ages, I'm ok but between them both I've not had much sleep lately!

Yes - see my thread on Lone Parents - Sick and alone at Xmas. Apart from last yr, we have NEVER had a Xmas without someone being really sick. DC2 vomited on Xmas morning before our Xmas had really begun and has been v v ill since with about 9 to 11 bouts of diarrhoea each day and not eaten now for over 3 days. I've got it too and DC1 seems OK but is upset that Xmas has been 'cancelled' (no one else here as I'ma lone parent without family around or any kind of respite).

Last Xmas was the best ever simply because if was our first Xmas since my twins were born - with no one ill. It's v miserable and depressing really, isn't it? I expect we'll all finally recover just as they go back to school and me to work and they've got 18 pages of Maths homework to do somehow, in what is supposed to be the holidays.

I feel cr*p today but have to start getting some laundry done etc as various 'normal life' things start up again tomorrow.

Just helped DS2 to bath as he was soaked in sweat this morning. House is a complete tip.

It's times like this that I'd pay anything just to have a fairy godmother come in, tidy house, do all laundry, put away all laundry, clean everywhere, do some necessary shopping and, oh yes, mend or DVD so that the DCs could at least watch the new DVDs they got for Xmas.

At least there's no OH to be grumpy about any of this - all I can do is grump around to myself and on MN!

We have all been ill with this flu/cold/cough thing. DS's started week before Xmas and still have it, DH started last Thursday and I started Xmas night - DH and I feel worse today

There is a mountain of laundry to do and I just cannot face sorting it, hanging it on the clothes horse to dry or going out to the garage to put clothes in the drier. DH has said between us we will manage. I feel so pathetic.

Hope everyone feels better soon.

Thanks for the replies.

It is depressing as there is such an expectation placed on the Xmas period.

Yep.

Same last year.

And the year before that.

I had to cancel three Christmas drinks/parties this year due to my own or my dc's illness and soldier on through having people round here when I felt really rough.

Oh good, I've found a thread that expresses excactly how I feel every year. Since having children (four years ago) each Christmas brings another illness! I'd been feeling all smug this year as I paid for the flu jab...then I get the vomiting bug we've had other years! Last year I wasn't 'ill' as such and niether was anyone else however I had post natal depression and wanted to run away to Brazil with a man in leather trousers (I was quite specific in my alternative reality fantasy!)...or crawl in a hole. The year before I had PROPER flu...not a heavy cold or any of that nonsense and as I was early stages of pregnancy it was fraught with worry and no medicine! ARRRGH. Given that 'we' all have to run the house on mega overdrive over Christmas (more shopping, catering and generally not being allowed to be foul to anyone!) I feel it is very unfair that SO much expectation is put upon on this time of year...anyone else want to punch Caroline Quentin in the head everytime the M&S adverts come on? Thank you, I shall now go and lie down again near my washing up bowl the husband left before leaving for his mothers....which I'll have to replace at some point

Oh b*er! Now DS1 has the bug and is vomiting copiously, just as DS2 and I were starting to feel marginally better. DS1 usually vomits loads when he has these bugs, so I know I'm in for several days an dnights up with him.

That's it for the Xmas hols now then. They'll probably both just have recovered when it's time to re-start school.

I still feel ill but can't even begin to think about my own needs. Majorly p*ed off today!

We are all the same - it's ds's b'day on the 21st, and he managed to squeeze in a vomiting bug before it and had a cold on the day. My niece came but got ill very quickly with what turned out to be croup, so we watched ds like a hawk for ages!

Then Xmas was germ free, for the first time in ages. But it's my birthday today, and I have gastric flu which is very unpleasant. We were supposed to be leaving ds with the grandparents and going to a hotel for the night, but obviously can't now and came home early instaed. But the hotel insist they will charge us £120 anyway - they are currently considering a voucher (not that I actually want to go again since they are so unsympathetic) or I would name and shame them on here.

We only booked on Christmas Eve, so it's not a long standing thing, and we have stayed twice before. Customer loyalty isn't very important to these people.

My hypochondriac dh is now convinced he will get it for New Year. I just hope ds doesn't get it.

Lots of poorly folks about around here too!

Gave up on going away and like you feenie lost our money too. Totally depressing. Although it would be more depressing being ill in a hotel room away from home with young kids (talk about trying to convince myself every cloud has a silver lining!)

You are right, but paying for being ill sucks, doesn't it!