Flu bug - not such a holiday!

The plan was: dinner with friends; a 1-year old birthday party; a 50-year old birthday party; 4th of July afternoon cook-out; and evening holiday cook-out. All plans were cancelled, but not all was lost...Since last Wednesday, Karmann's little immune system has been fighting a bug I am sure she caught at the day care. Unfortunately, Kris and I also caught it at the same time! Karmann was vomiting and had a stuffy nose on Wednesday, however did not have a fever. Kris caught it on Thursday morning and left work early, and while I was called to pick up Karmann for loose b.m., I head to the grocery store to get medicine for both of them, and I end up getting sick in the store - luckily I found a garbage can - but was mortified!! Anyway, by the time I got Karmann and headed home, we were all feeling like crap. I won't get into more specific details, but for the next 12 hours, Kris and I had to gather up enough energy to trade off taking care of Karmann and each other. I can say we have never experienced anything more miserable than that!! Thank goodness our good friends Kirby & Bev dropped off soup and popsicles so we could get some sort of nutrients in our system. We even called Kris' sister in Tampa to see if she could come over the next day to take care of Karmann while we recovered ourselves. Luckily by 3 am, our fevers broke and we were starting to recover. Needless to say, all of our 4th of July plans were cancelled! We spent Friday recovering, Saturday sanitizing and washing everything, and finally returned to the planet on Sunday. Back to work on Monday, and Karmann had a relapse of loose b.m. at the daycare. Come to find out, all the care givers had the same thing over the weekend. So Kris ended up taking Karmann to the doctor, but not much else could be done. She was better on Tuesday, but got the call again around 11 am that she had a a temp of 101.8! So again, Kris took off and went to get her. Kris also stayed home today to take care of her and when I got home, she was much much better. She's been sick now for over a week!! My poor little baby!!

Though there's always a silver lining...what we did gain was three full days at home together with nothing to do (nothing we could do) but hang out together and sleep! Sounds good to me! It actually was fun, as it seemed Karmann was recovering quicker than us, and she was a real character! She has such a personality and has us wrapped around her little finger! She loves to stand up and bounce and smile, talk and laugh! So, though we were all miserable, we actually had fun staying home!! No commitments, no visitors, no errands to run - who wouldn't love that? Thinking of it that way, it made it extremely hard for me to drop her off at daycare and go back to work this week. If only we didn't have to work....