Oh I'm just so fed up with ILL CHILDREN!!! (rant)

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It is getting to me ladies. Week before last Ds and me and my mother all had that horrid bug, Ds was sick all over my bed, several times, we all ended up camping downstairs. It was hellish and there was so much washing, no blankets left to sleep under etc. Anyway washing now caught up with, boys now Ok...then Ds1 gets a bad cold, cough etc. and well, he is one of those children who is always sick with a cough, it just happens, and last few nights he's been coughing like mad, waking me, waking the baby, I think i have PTSD about the sick thing from 2 weeks ago as I am just lying there thinking 'he's about to throw up all over us all again' with every cough. Last night I got the baby bath and stuck it on the bed and said, 'look, if you need it, it's there' and then he did need to throw up, and I directed him at it and it all went in the bath, brilliant.
I then decided to oust him from the communal bed as me and the baby were getting NO sleep at all thanks to poor coughing child.
He slept after a story on the sofa in his room, while I sat there bleary eyed with baby, then crept back to big bed.
No sleep was had by anyone really, it seems to be going on for weeks, I am so resentful and traumatised by having to do midnight bed changes, that I feel like just giving up.
Nobody is there to take a turn at it.
Arggghhhhhhh

Sorry about that. Thankyou for reading.
Don't suppose anyone else is feeling under attack by germ ridden four year olds? If not would someone like to adopt him please? Just for a week or two...

Oh, much sympathy! Me and DW and 3-month DD have all just had that bastard bug (me yesterday), it's AWFUL.

Ick.

it does pass. We did 2 weeks in hospital witha D&V bug (caught from the hozzie). No sleep. Bloody awful. dd on a drip etc
seemed to last forever.
But I'll take your 4 yo if you have my 3yo. She doesn't sleep well anyway...

oh dear

we are also the house of illness

you have my sympathy

hot drinks, bath and bed early tonight

big hugs x

Oh poor you. We are the same here. DS vomiting violently intermittently over the last 48 hours. Very wearing.

It is really hard work. Not just the illness but the whole washing, recycling of linen, and house smelling of sick all the blardy time.

No magic response, but happy to swap one vomiting stubborn two year old with a preference for vomiting on new carpets, for your four year old for a while?

Awwwww there I was thinking my little rant had disappeared down the long page of active convos!

Very touched

I am sorry so many of you are also in this boat.
It must get better after the year turns, surely? Everyone we know seems to be ill!

NMC I will swap if you like. I would swap him for a gorilla I think, your daughter would be most acceptable

Moodlum, you need to concentrate on teaching him to AIM at something. That has been my sole purpose for the past four years!

JAM, you are very sweet x
Hope chair situation was sorted out Ok.

(I have had goodwill from others on MN, somebody even gave us a new mattress after the other week, people are so kind...)

ok Twinkly. Best warn you though, people will stare cos 1. She's ginger and 2, she has cerebral palsy
But given that she does have CP, her vomming stays where she is. Unlike ds2, who once ran down the stairs vomming as he went then did and extra special effort into a bag of potatoes. Blardy organic ones too.

oh dear, sick on potatos !!

DS was sick in my hair once

that was unpleasant

and DD was so thoroughly sick on me once, my clothes were so soaked, i had to change my underwear

I know. I must teach him to aim (I think it must be a male thing, this lack of direction). Had he been actually aiming at dd's new hobby horse (don't know if you have ever tried to wash sick off a fabric hobby horse, its not the easiest thing in the world), rather than just being 'lucky', then we'd have have something to work with, but atm I think he's taking the splattergun approach.

are you feeling better keerry?

Quote of the week!!!!! Class act Ds.

People stare at my ds too, but usually for reasons he can help, which is very embarrassing...cool that Dd manages to vom neatly, I am very impressed!

Oh and Ds2 is a ginger as well

I love it!

we have the same here. Ds (3) has had ahacking cough for ages now and 15 month dd has a really bad cough and cold. Evrytime she has something to eat she coughs and thorws it all up so today she has just had milk and 2 yoghurts

Sorry both last posts aimed at NMC!

dd1, as we're sharing 'great voms of our time' once vomited up the wall. It was spagetti. I just stood and watched as it slid down the wall...

yup, CP leads to neat voms. Although she did get a consultant (during that 2 week stay) who had just finished saying there was nothing wrong with her. Projectile. Really needed a camera for that moment.

EWWWWWWW!!!!!!!

Kerry, had it already, I take it you are in the 'throws' of it {hug}

A friend of mine when small once vomited into the air vent of her father's brand new car, of which he was very proud. It may have been a lovely BMW, but it smelt of sick for the rest of its days.

Keep cross posting, the Ew was for the spaghetti, yes I imagine a video camera would have been perfect for that occasion.

LOL at "sharing great voms"...

DS once leaned over the bannister at the top of the stairs to proclaim he did not feel well adn instead he threw up. It just cascaded all down the stairs, bannisters, walls...

Changing beds in the middle of the night is hideous - especially if there is "splatter" and you are bare foot without your glasses...

I feel much better now

ROFL claricebeansmum.