Last Monday when we got home from school, Alexis managed to throw up on both of her sisters in the van before we got out. I kept her home from school the next day, but she seemed ok so Wednesday I got her ready for school as usual. We were getting coats on to go out the door when the next stage of her stomach bug hit. The rest of the day was spent with Alexis running to the bathroom and me rinsing out clothes.
The rest of us seemed to have missed it for a bit. Alexis, after being on the BRAT (bananas, rice, applesauce, toast) diet for a few days evened out just fine, and by Saturday I had her back on regular food, though I held off on dairy till Sunday. So Saturday was a big day… Alexis got to eat more of what she wanted, and Branwen, Charis, and I all went on the BRAT diet instead. 😛 Branwen’s system seemed to recover the fastest. I tried to put us all back on regular foods yesterday, and Charis got really gassy, I started running to the bathroom again… and Branwen was just fine. Well, at least there’s only two of us to finish with this one, and Charis hasn’t been too bad.
In the meantime, Alexis and Charis both managed to pick up colds which started manifesting themselves last night in the form of a lot of fussing and a few night terrors on the part of Alexis. Whenever she does that we can be pretty sure that she’ll have a cold the next day. *sigh* At least today was a snow day, so we were able to take it easy.
Fiddle-dee-dee, tomorrow is another day. Here’s hoping we’ll be less runny all around.