We've been passing around various winter bugs for 2-1/2 weeks now. Jonah has been the most sick. His immunity system has totally crashed, so he keeps getting new awful things every three days.
He started projectile vomiting on Saturday night. He said that half chewed ravioli shot out of his nose. We were up the whole night with him. I cleaned vomit off the carpeting at 2 am. He was so dehydrated yesterday that I thought we were going to have to go to the emergency room. A couple hours ago, I drove him to school even though he was still very sick, because I thought that moving around might be good for him.
Twenty minutes until his bus pulls up. I hope I did the right thing.
Gotta get back to cloroxing the kitchen and bathrooms again.
Apt. 11d 
How’d it go? I know what you mean about sending them to school. I feel like they might be more tired, but it’s good for them to keep their brain active and their minds off their illness. S also *hates* to miss school. Missing school is the only thing worse than being there.
Btw, I read a great book this vacation, Eleanor and Park, by Rainbow Rowell. YA fiction about a couple of HS kids who fall in love. Nicely done. Not sure what it was about, but it has stuck with me. Might be a nice change from the dystopian stuff you’ve been reading.
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Shoving him out of the house was the right move. He came home better than when he left. But you never know. He could have vomitted in the hallway. Parenting = stressful.
Thanks for the recommendation. Will check it out.
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I once made the wrong call on that and Southwest Airlines, plus various passengers thereof, paid the price.
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oof. I was just trying to think of our public vomitting stories. I’m sure that the kids have puked in public many times. But the only public vomitting stories that are coming to mind right now are my own. Too much booze in my 20s.
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“Too much booze in my 20s.”
If you’ve survived to tell the tale, there’s no such thing.
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