Last Friday, Colette had taken the kids out to run an errand when I got home from work. I had class that night so I was in a hurry to get going yet I wanted us all to eat supper together so I threw on the stove a couple cans of Campbells Select Chicken Tortilla soup. It’s chicken soup without eggs, so we can eat it and not worry about making Brayton sick. Yeah right.
Lauren didn’t eat a drop. When I put the bowl in front of her, she immediately started splashing her spoon in the soup and making a huge mess. Colette took her soup away and she got to eat a sandwich and some fruit. I ate a whole bowl as did Colette. Brayton dug the crackers out of his soup and only got some soup as a side to the crackers. Good thing Lauren didn’t touch the soup.
That night, I had to leave class 3 times to go to the bathroom. I got all sorts of stomach cramps. By the time I got home, I found a note from Colette that she wasn’t feeling well and had gone to bed. I proceeded to sit on the toilet again, then by the time I was done I ended up puking in the sink three different times. I decided hopefully the worst was over, I was wrong.
I went to bed that night, only to be up about every hour either puking or sitting on the toilet with the worst case of diahhrea I’ve ever had. Colette had similar problems, we got no sleep.
The next day did not bring any change. We spent the entire day incapacitated. I tried to go to class at noon, but got kicked out by my instructor because I was obviouslly “green.”
That afternoon, Colette called Matt and Audra to come take the kids for the afternoon because we couldn’t watch them we were so sick.
While the kids were with Matt & Audra, Brayton threw up on Matt. Matt said that Brayton was acting sheepish and asking for Colette, so he knew he didn’t feel well. Shortly later, Brayton proceeded to puke on Matt. They were at Tim & Kathy’s, so they washed Brayton’s clothes and said he acted normal thereafter.
That evening we put Brayton to bed, and about two hours into the evening, he threw up in bed. Colette and I ran in there because he was screaming and crying and we knew something wasn’t right. I got in there and asked “what’s wrong,” and Brayton’s exact words were “I coughed in my bed.” I proceeded to wash him up and change his pjamas while Colette changed his sheets.
The next night, Brayton “coughed” again in his bed. He was not his normal active self and we ate alot of fruit and watched alot of movies that day. We could tell he was miserable. His stools were very loose but he did such a great job going to the potty, he never once had an accident.
The next day he seemed to be feeling a little better, however, Tuesday evening, he went to the potty and had his first accident. He was devastated. Feces was everywhere on the floor, down his legs, it was a soupy mess.
That evening, Colette put him in a pull up. Brayton did not want to wear a pull up anymore, but Colette put his undies on over the top of the pull up and that was good for Brayton. Good thing she did, he had another accident about midnight. The pull up contained the mess, and we cleaned him up and he slept fine.
Today it’s Wednesday, we’re mostly recovered but poor Brayton still has very loose stools.
Lauren never showed any sign of being sick, thank God.
