One of those days : the vomit diaries

Today started out great, I was super productive and got most of the house clean and even deep cleaned the downstairs bathroom including moping and Lysol. Feeling pretty good and hoping to get some errands ran this evening when Cory came home from work. Then at three Porter told me he didn't feel good. Which he says all the time when he has a head ache, he is bored, he is upset, and when he is really sick. So i didn't read much into it and put on some cartoons and told him to have some quiet time on the couch.

I was trying to figure out why the computer was not working ( obviously figured that out, go me!) when i heard the coughing gurgling sound that every mother knows is followed closely by vomit. I bounded across the room yelling to go to the bathroom but it was too late porter had projectile vomit all over the couch, my new carpet, and himself. I picked him up and ran to the bathroom while he continued to puke all over the hallway and me. I cleaned up Porter, the bathroom floor, the couch, and the carpet as best i could and re settled him on the couch with a bowl in case he needed it. Right about then Cory walks in the door from work and walks up stairs to change his clothes. Ten minutes pass and I wonder if he decided to take a nap too, but before i could head up there to see what he was doing Porter told me that he had an accident in his underwear. Oh so fun! So i take him to the bathroom to address that issue, but before i could even get his pants down I hear the tell tell sound of the gurgling cough from the hallway behind me. I spin around just in time to see Theo holding both his hands to his mouth as he throws up so its spraying the walls and the carpet. I grab him and throw him in the bathroom where he projectile vomits on Porter, on his cloths, on my used to be clean floor, the toilet, and the walls. Porter starts throwing up too. ( can you blame him? Its kind of gross to have someone throw up on you) I am screaming at Cory to get down here and help me, after the third time he screams back he is feeling sick to his stomach and cant.

lovely.

So i strip the boys of all drenched clothing, wipe them down with paper towels and Carry them to the bath tub upstairs and start the water. I hear the baby wake up in the other room, perfect timing, right?! Go get the baby, go back to bathroom and start washing off the older boys. Hear Cory being sick in the other room. Get boys out of bathtub, put them in bed and go help Cory.

I go downstairs to throw all the clothes in the wash, clean the bathroom again, clean up hallway, clean up walls, open all the windows in the house to help with intense smell. Theo comes downstairs and sits down on the floor. Its now 5 pm and I am exhausted from two hours of being the nurse on duty. I sit down on the couch to relax, just as i sit down Theo walks over to me crying, and vomits all over me, the couch, my really pretty brand new couch pillows, and again on the carpet. For some reason he thinks that by holding his hands in front of his mouth he can stop it, which only makes a bigger mess. I grab him go up stairs and clean him off in the bath tub again. Put him in bed with porter and instruct him to throw up in the bowl if he needs too. I go downstairs and clean up everything again. By now I am seriously thinking of buying a new couch. Five minutes later as I start this post, i hear him gurgling and crying.. run up there he is throwing up all over himself and the floor in their room. Third bath of the hour, convince Cory to lay by him so he can help him get it in the bowl next time.

So now i am praying that I will somehow be spared this sickness, although after cleaning up all the gross stuff all afternoon i am feeling a bit nauseated.

Its now 8:30 pm. We have repeated everything above about 6 times. Not one of them has yet to keep down even a tablespoon of water. Oh and the baby just threw up on me. My whole house smells like puke. I smell like puke.

So far I am not sick, I am racking my brain to think of something they all ate and I didn't, hoping that I don't get what they have. It looks miserable. Pray for us! Cory wants me to take him to the ER but right now draging the whole puking family there so they can say yep you have a virus sounds like a waste to me and I am hoping it passes soon for them.

Off to do the rounds and check on all my patients.