Who else is stuck at home with poorly kids? This flu/chesty bug going round is just horrid!

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Apparently, ds's class only had 22 on Friday because of it (normally 30). Poor ds was hit with it on Sunday night - horribly high temperature, nasty chesty cough, shivering, aches and pains - really nasty. Poor boy is still not better (he looks v pale) which is very unlike him.

Of course, yours truly has a version (though I'm ok) which meant last night I was sweating so much, I thought I'd spilt my water all over me!

Luckily, the asthmatic ones have avoided it so far though dd has told everyone we have bird flu .

So who else is stuck with it?

It's nice shes an age where she can remember her as well.

I lost all my granparents way before ds' time. We're a family of oldie mums!

To combat the cabin fever I made an excuse to walk into town (2.5 mile round trip) alone thinking I'd pop into Neros for a coffee, read of the papers and a bit of time-out to escape but Neros was closed !

How very dare they!?

Anyone else managed to escape their nursing duties for a bit?

should have got a sausage roll from waitrose instead

furball

I did consider going to Waitrose (for a coffee and choc tiffin slice though) but the queue was too long and I couldn't be arsed.

At least my trudge through snow and slush got me out for some much needed exercise I suppose.

This is still going strong in our family. I felt a little better on Friday but now I feel as though I've been hit with a sledgehammer. Worst of it is now that dh is ill, I'm the 'better' one so I'm doing all the cooking, cleaning, looking after the kids whilst he lolls around on the sofa groaning occasionally. I feel very resentful as I had no-one to look after me when I was very bad and I still had to function for the kids.

He's threatening to take the day off work tomorrow, but this is an agency job, he could lose it if he takes a day off, it's the first job he's had since just before Christmas and I'd be gutted if he lost it!

Both me and DD have been poorly with bug, got from DP who had it mildly. We both been poorly for two weeks now. Just as I thought I was getting better (nasty cough all that remained), I awoke with swollen glands and a horrendous sore throat. Coughed so hard last night I was sick. DD (7 months) is only just losing green snot, and can sllep for couple hours now without waking up coughing.

I took her to se GP twice as her chest sounded awful.
luckily, not infection, so he says. We are on the mend slowly but my throat is still painful.

AND I am breastfeeding so only been able to take paracetamol, although GP said yesterday coul take Ibruprofen sparingly...not sure bout that...

Oh I am glad I found this thread, I feel AWFUL! Dd and ds had a bit of a cold last week but now seem to be fine, I've had a head cold for a couple of weeks but last weekend it turned into full blown cold with snot by the gallon and a really nasty cough. My ears are completely blocked and sore and I can't taste anything for the 3rd day.
Dumbledoresgirl - I am EXACTLY the same as you, feel hot and feverish but normal temperature. It's a throw back from my childhood but I feel like if I don't have a temperature I'm not properly ill
Argh, you and your poorly dcs all have my sympathy. Tea and biscuits all round I think

ye hay
Im on the mend!!
Have now got the anti-biotics (ciprofloxacin 500mg since you're asking)!that will work with this chest infection and after NEARLY A MONTH I feel ok-ish, with sudden swetty bursts!

Have you ever read the possible side effects - of pills? These are a joke include : inability to sleep, problems with liveror kidney failure, feeling weak/loss of strength, bleeding under the skin...WTF!

I am happy to report that it will also clear my gonorrhoea and infection in my prostate - praise be..

I am and it's seriously starting to get me down dd and I have had endless illness that just goes round and round and I feel like i'm drowning and very tearful

I just can't aeem to get on top of anything at all and feel like i'm going to have a breakdown.

Don't know when it will get better, soon hopefully

dd is still capable of making me laugh, so that's something but I is all getting a bit much

sally s - get thee back to docs. Make them do a spit culture!! Everything you cough up, you spit in a pot and they grow it and then can give you the correct antibios for it...gewon gewon gewon! Youve still got 'it'

Think dd1 is starting this - racking cough, though not much temp at the moment. Am terrified: dd2 is only 11 weeks old, has a floppy larynx (hence restricted airway) and was very very sick with bronchiolitis over Xmas. Chesty things are not good news, for her.

Keeping fingers tightly crossed (and covered in First Defence foamy stuff in vain hope it will help not transmit from dd1 to dd2) and wishing all of you and your LOs better soon....

Oh, no, Eli! Best of immune system vibes to you and the little one!

Well dd still has a temp and woke up with a rash behind her ears and on her neck this morning (cue menigitis panic first, then measles...!) but actually, tbh, by this afternoon, she looked like she was on the mend.

Ds def better - no temp now for a day although he's still v snotty and has the cough.

I am now 100% better but still coughing/bringing up phlegm. That means it's taken a WHOLE WEEK for both ds and me to get better (including a replapse for him and me in the middle of the week when we thought we'd got rid of it!) - and when I say a whole week, I mean, literally, unable to leave the house ill (apart from the one day we thought we were both better and he went back to school!).

I hope none of the babies get it and everyone keeps getting better!

Just to let you know that, although I appear on the surface to be a fully functioning person again (last night was the first night in days when I didn't need any drugs or remedies to get through the night), I am actually still struggling.

I did some shopping yesterday which seems to have knocked me out today. I just feel really tired, like I am wading through treacle. So it's a biggie, this bug. Don't expect too much from yourselves once it is apparently gone.

Day 6 for me and I'm feeling better - at work at least! I still have a very bad cough that hurts all of my upper body and it feels like I have a normal cold now, you know nose streaming etc. But much better than last week!

AND dh at work. He was awful yesterday, but improved a bit by the evening and got up for work at 6am this morning - what a trooper!

As others seem to be getting it again I'm going to take it easy and be nice to myself. I think one of the problems is that when we feel ok we tend to do everything we've been neglecting to do whilst ill and it just pushes us down again. So take it easy girls, it's a bit of a bastard this one!

(thanks expat and heifer for responces below)

As it was the weekend we left DS and today he seems a bit better, eating more..

DH has got it now. Am as he is just a pita when ill (and hes started smoking again - idiot)

I dont think we have had one full week where one of us hasnt been feeling crap since christmas.

Oh yes, we've been altering waist bands here too.