Saturday, September 05, 2009

Here a puke, there a puke, everywhere a puke puke

Dang. Henry's first bona fide puke occurred at the condo at approximately 11:20pm on Friday night. And boy howdy was it a doozy. Probably helped that before commencing with his first bout of vomitosis, Monsieur Henry ate a bazillion blackberries and bite-sized pieces of broiled chicken. This made for a very interesting and colorful display of bile on all surfaces that were hit during the event. The lad was discovered standing in bed covered in puke. Puke in his hair, on his face, all over his pajamas, soaking through the sheets, all over the bedspread, even some on his pet pig. And it was a bright purplish color, only it took me a moment to assign the color purple to the vomit so for that millisecond I thought it was blood. Dear Zeus in the sky, that is never a good thing to experience. Several minor pukes followed, each one lessening in severity. The culprit? We think it is the same bug that I've been fighting for nearly two days now. Darr stayed home from work yesterday to take care of the wee one because I was out of commission. My throat hurts, my eyes are leaky faucets, either my right sinus or my left sinus is plugged (depending on how I'm lying on the bed), and up until dinner time, the thought of eating made me want to puke. (My actual vomiting occurred Thursday on the drive home from daycare after picking Henry up. Driving and puking, that's how I roll, Internet.) Henry has been washed off multiple times, trained in how to aim for the porcelain God in the event he has to blow again, and is currently sleeping in his bed. Darr is camped out on the floor beside him. I'm washing many loads of laundry in an attempt to salvage the following: one bedspread, two pairs of pajamas, one pillowcase, two sheets, one towel, and several wash cloths.

7 comments:

Rachele said...

I can only imagine that puke after all the blackberries! Get well soon to everyone at the condo.

Amber said...

Eww... toddler puke is no good. That's probably the worst kind of puke actually because younger kids just puke a little and older kids A) can read the "sickness ahead" signals better, thus causing them to eat less and B) have a much better chance of hitting that porcelain god. Good luck to you... I hope it's just a quick bug that's gone now.

Cathy said...

Oh man! I hope you both feel better soon.

Shawn and Becky said...

Bummer! Hope everyone feels better soon. And puking while driving . . . so impressive!

Megan said...

Ugh. Sounds awful.

I hope you both are feeling better!

Miss Amelia Jane. said...

Amelia did this a couple of months ago and me, being the inept parent, didn't know what to do so I just sat in the bathtub with her figuring it would be easy clean up. Poor things just don't know what's going on! I hope you both feel better!

Elizabeth Prata said...

so sorry the little guy (and the big guys at the condo) are sick!

I was monitoring the girls in the girls' bathroom, most were done and lined up in the little lobby hallway. One Pre-K-er said 'my tummy hurts!" and I hugged her. She stood like that for a moment, forehead pressed against my stomach, and then I turned around to address a mini-water fight and one millisecond later there was a pool of vomit on the floor, with the little gal looking at me wanting another hug.

Er, that was FAST! and it was a close one! I guess mommies don't mind so much cleaning up their kids' vomit but dealing with non-family vomit...a horse of a different color!

The red must've been scary. I hope y'all feel better soon.