We seem to go from one to the next these days. So many that I've largely gone numb to the effects.
I mentioned in another thread that I suffered a horrible bout of intestinal flu at the end of last week/the beginning of this. It's gone through my family and my son-in-law's family like Sherman's March to the sea. There are two versions. With the mild one you throw up once or twice and make a few quick trips to the bathroom, and that's pretty much it. With the worst version it's like flu and food-poisoning combined. You throw up like you've never thrown up before and you're convinced that's it, that's the lot, because there is nothing more you could throw up, and half an hour later it's the same thing all over again ... and then again ... and again for hours. It's like every ounce of fluid in your body gets sucked from your cells into your stomach and then vomitted up. Meanwhile, you've got the flux.
Megan, Clay's brother, and I had the worst version, and two of us ended up going to the emergency room with dehydration. The twins have had the mild version, but in Jack's case it comes back every couple of days. John, Miles, and Clay had the mild version, too.
Yesterday, Daisy came down with the bad one. She was feeling much better today, but then she passed out in the bathroom, and hit her head hard when she fell. She broke her glasses and gashed her face; since she knows what time she went in, she estimates she was unconcious for over half an hour before she woke up and called us here. Her father rushed off to take her to the doctor.
They are in the ER now, where she passed out a second time, although fortunately she was sitting down and John kept her from falling. The doctors think she may have suffered a concussion -- she's going in for a CAT scan. She's also dehydrated, which is probably why she fainted in the first place.
This is all particularly scary for us because a family friend was hit by a car about a week ago, and died of her head injuries a few days later.
I mentioned in another thread that I suffered a horrible bout of intestinal flu at the end of last week/the beginning of this. It's gone through my family and my son-in-law's family like Sherman's March to the sea. There are two versions. With the mild one you throw up once or twice and make a few quick trips to the bathroom, and that's pretty much it. With the worst version it's like flu and food-poisoning combined. You throw up like you've never thrown up before and you're convinced that's it, that's the lot, because there is nothing more you could throw up, and half an hour later it's the same thing all over again ... and then again ... and again for hours. It's like every ounce of fluid in your body gets sucked from your cells into your stomach and then vomitted up. Meanwhile, you've got the flux.
Megan, Clay's brother, and I had the worst version, and two of us ended up going to the emergency room with dehydration. The twins have had the mild version, but in Jack's case it comes back every couple of days. John, Miles, and Clay had the mild version, too.
Yesterday, Daisy came down with the bad one. She was feeling much better today, but then she passed out in the bathroom, and hit her head hard when she fell. She broke her glasses and gashed her face; since she knows what time she went in, she estimates she was unconcious for over half an hour before she woke up and called us here. Her father rushed off to take her to the doctor.
They are in the ER now, where she passed out a second time, although fortunately she was sitting down and John kept her from falling. The doctors think she may have suffered a concussion -- she's going in for a CAT scan. She's also dehydrated, which is probably why she fainted in the first place.
This is all particularly scary for us because a family friend was hit by a car about a week ago, and died of her head injuries a few days later.
