@mikibell Uuuugh my baby picked up a stomach bug at daycare and while she is pretty much over it, husband and I caught it and are puking and shitting our brains out. Happy friggen New Years! I’m clinging to a desperate hope that baby sleeps through the night tonight.
@alexthegirl oh, I hope you feel better soon… As @mahoneyli, said Brat diet… As well as little sips of liquids, something with a little sugar in it, not just plain water…the sugar gives your stomach something to digest…
This too shall pass and by the time your baby is in school, you will all have gotten everything but those viri that come through every 100 years…seriously, it does get better!
@alexthegirl The baby will be the first to bounce back completely. This means she’ll be all happy, ready to play, eat, and make messes and all you want to do is sip bouillon and Pedialyte. Stock up on Pedialyte. Coupons on their website. For a couple of years I spent every major holiday in the ER with a puking, feverish kid. Next morning she’d be all fine and I’d go to work on 2 hours sleep. Hang in there.
I remember being shamed at the er because my son was running a fever and being miserable. They basically said, if I was a good mother, I would have taken him to the drs during they day instead of wasting er time for an ear infection… I was fuming, especially since it was on the dr’s advice that I went to the er. Poor baby never showed signs of ear infections, I had to guess…like no reaction to fireworks, extra snuggly, evil meltdowns for no apparent reason… Wouldn’t trade my snuggle bum for anything! (Hmmm must be the presnisone talking)
@alexthegirl I feel for you. I am so vulnerable to stomach bugs that if someone drives past me on the highway with stomach flu I catch it. I hope you and your family are well soon. I also hope you live far from here.
@moondrake One grim thing about day care: every child bring every virus from every member of their extended family, and they all share. You’d think the viruses would be related so they could confer immunity to at least one or two others, but noooo… Every virus is unique. Pedialyte (used to be Gatorade) and bananas. And one or two extra sets of sheets for each kid’s bed, beyond what you already have. How much fun is it to run a load of sheets, pajamas and blankets at 0300, and another one at 0500? Only a parent knows.
@Al_Coholic this diet is still recommended by doctors. When I had the stomach virus recently, they said to use it, but no one ever tells me bananas anymore. They explain it as bread, crackers, chicken stock… Easy to digest bland items.
When my dog caught it from me, she got the rice and chicken stock that I didn’t use.
@f00l Me too, or 7-Up if available. Somehow I never had the right things in the house when stomach ills hit. Ginger ale, lemon lime soda, chicken noodle soup, soda crackers- they’d get consumed and I’d forget to buy replacements.
@OldCatLady@f001 my husband introduced coca-cola into being sick … we always did ginger ale too… but the coco-cola does help, and it is something to swig and spit if puking is involved… They carry that and gum when they are away with scouts.
@Al_Coholic when throwing up, nothing was appetizing. Food smells disgusting to me. It was a day of nothing but Gatorade. Then a day of crackers and Gatorade. Then crackers and chicken broth based soup for breakfast and lunch, and then in the evening I got a Thai coconut milk based soup with chicken breast. After that I finally got back into mostly normal foods, but nothing spicy or anything that I knew might cause heartburn.
@Al_Coholic as I looked in my fridge, I noticed a container of jello leftover. I also had probiotic yogurt drinks after the first day.
As for the effects. I was on anti nausea medication. I stopped vomiting after the first day, but then it just went out the other way. After a couple of days my body basically had no food in it to process, so functions almost ceased completely for a few days, and then it still took me almost a week after that to get mostly back to normal.
So does the diet help with that, I don’t know. I know it helped me to get some food in.
I done recall ever being that sick, just kid sick for a day. So hard to say.
The best things about ginger ale, club soda, sprint and soda crackers is that they won’t aggravate.
Nowadays there is pedialyte and gatoraid and those are better, replace electrolytes. The soda crackers are prob still decent, unless you get advice from some source less than 40 years out of date.
@f00l yeah. I honestly thought I had food poisoning because of how violently I would throw up. The first day, a sip of water would make me vomit until I dry heaved. There was one time I had to wash the bathroom down and take a shower because the vomit came out so forcefully that I missed the toilet. At least at that point I was only vomiting liquid. Still not fun to clean up vomit when nauseous, lol
It went through my brother’s workplace a month or two before mine, and some people he knew, kept getting it and were sick for around a month. I don’t know if they just didn’t get immunity to the first strain, if it was different strains, or they just kept getting sick.
My one co-worker got sick on the same day as me. I was out for around a week, they were out for 10+ days. Mostly everyone else that got sick, it was a day or two later and they were only sick 1-2 days. Lucky them. It all started after we had a pot luck… So I wonder if someone was spreading it around. Not sure if the effect would take hold that fast or not.
@SSteve I woke the gf up at 11:58. She rolled over, watched the ball drop, said the lights were cool, said Happy New Year, then returned to dreamland. Yeah, aging gracefully…
It started raining while we were at dinner (between 4 and 5). It’s the steady light rain. I’m hoping it keeps people home and fireworks in their packaging.
I occasionally drive for Uber, and I just could not convince myself to drive tonight. The money from what I understand would be amazing, but with the rain and all the crazies out, it is just not worth it.
If it’s raining or other weather, my philosophy is, follow your instincts. If it were dry, you’d have prob been ok - but if one feel queasy, that’s a good reason to skip out.
Staying in and snuggling with the monsters… Fingers crossed, no emergency services needed!
Stay safe…
@mikibell Same here. Except mine are demons.
@mfladd we have a smorgasbord of junk food and lots of good movies on tap…we party like it is 1990…
@mikibell Same here.
@mikibell Uuuugh my baby picked up a stomach bug at daycare and while she is pretty much over it, husband and I caught it and are puking and shitting our brains out. Happy friggen New Years! I’m clinging to a desperate hope that baby sleeps through the night tonight.
@alexthegirl Happened to us, too, over the last two weeks. Stick to the BRAT diet and you should be good in 48 hours.
@alexthegirl oh, I hope you feel better soon… As @mahoneyli, said Brat diet… As well as little sips of liquids, something with a little sugar in it, not just plain water…the sugar gives your stomach something to digest…
This too shall pass and by the time your baby is in school, you will all have gotten everything but those viri that come through every 100 years…seriously, it does get better!
@alexthegirl The baby will be the first to bounce back completely. This means she’ll be all happy, ready to play, eat, and make messes and all you want to do is sip bouillon and Pedialyte. Stock up on Pedialyte. Coupons on their website. For a couple of years I spent every major holiday in the ER with a puking, feverish kid. Next morning she’d be all fine and I’d go to work on 2 hours sleep. Hang in there.
@OldCatLady have to love them, huh?
I remember being shamed at the er because my son was running a fever and being miserable. They basically said, if I was a good mother, I would have taken him to the drs during they day instead of wasting er time for an ear infection… I was fuming, especially since it was on the dr’s advice that I went to the er. Poor baby never showed signs of ear infections, I had to guess…like no reaction to fireworks, extra snuggly, evil meltdowns for no apparent reason… Wouldn’t trade my snuggle bum for anything! (Hmmm must be the presnisone talking)
@alexthegirl I feel for you. I am so vulnerable to stomach bugs that if someone drives past me on the highway with stomach flu I catch it. I hope you and your family are well soon. I also hope you live far from here.
@alexthegirl p.s…no baby pics?
@moondrake One grim thing about day care: every child bring every virus from every member of their extended family, and they all share. You’d think the viruses would be related so they could confer immunity to at least one or two others, but noooo… Every virus is unique. Pedialyte (used to be Gatorade) and bananas. And one or two extra sets of sheets for each kid’s bed, beyond what you already have. How much fun is it to run a load of sheets, pajamas and blankets at 0300, and another one at 0500? Only a parent knows.
@alexthegirl
So sorry to hear. This stomach flu or whatever is nasty nasty. So far I’ve escaped.
@OldCatLady 7 sweatshirts in one night…my daughter puked on a WEEK’s worth of sweatshirts in one night…gotta love her!
@alexthegirl I didn’t know what the “BRAT diet” was so I looked it up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRAT_diet
Sounds like not a great idea.
@Al_Coholic this diet is still recommended by doctors. When I had the stomach virus recently, they said to use it, but no one ever tells me bananas anymore. They explain it as bread, crackers, chicken stock… Easy to digest bland items.
When my dog caught it from me, she got the rice and chicken stock that I didn’t use.
@RiotDemon
@Al_Coholic
@OldCatLady
@mikibell
When I was pre-school and sick, Mom used to feed me ginger ale or club soda, and, if I kept that down, soda crackers.
Was both folk wisdom and medical advice.
@f00l @RiotDemon Did it work any better than just eating normal food?
@f00l Me too, or 7-Up if available. Somehow I never had the right things in the house when stomach ills hit. Ginger ale, lemon lime soda, chicken noodle soup, soda crackers- they’d get consumed and I’d forget to buy replacements.
@OldCatLady @f001 my husband introduced coca-cola into being sick … we always did ginger ale too… but the coco-cola does help, and it is something to swig and spit if puking is involved…
They carry that and gum when they are away with scouts.
@Al_Coholic when throwing up, nothing was appetizing. Food smells disgusting to me. It was a day of nothing but Gatorade. Then a day of crackers and Gatorade. Then crackers and chicken broth based soup for breakfast and lunch, and then in the evening I got a Thai coconut milk based soup with chicken breast. After that I finally got back into mostly normal foods, but nothing spicy or anything that I knew might cause heartburn.
@Al_Coholic as I looked in my fridge, I noticed a container of jello leftover. I also had probiotic yogurt drinks after the first day.
As for the effects. I was on anti nausea medication. I stopped vomiting after the first day, but then it just went out the other way. After a couple of days my body basically had no food in it to process, so functions almost ceased completely for a few days, and then it still took me almost a week after that to get mostly back to normal.
So does the diet help with that, I don’t know. I know it helped me to get some food in.
@RiotDemon
I had 2 friends who got that. This year’s strain just seems to be particularly vicious and vile.
@Al_Coholic
I done recall ever being that sick, just kid sick for a day. So hard to say.
The best things about ginger ale, club soda, sprint and soda crackers is that they won’t aggravate.
Nowadays there is pedialyte and gatoraid and those are better, replace electrolytes. The soda crackers are prob still decent, unless you get advice from some source less than 40 years out of date.
@f00l yeah. I honestly thought I had food poisoning because of how violently I would throw up. The first day, a sip of water would make me vomit until I dry heaved. There was one time I had to wash the bathroom down and take a shower because the vomit came out so forcefully that I missed the toilet. At least at that point I was only vomiting liquid. Still not fun to clean up vomit when nauseous, lol
It went through my brother’s workplace a month or two before mine, and some people he knew, kept getting it and were sick for around a month. I don’t know if they just didn’t get immunity to the first strain, if it was different strains, or they just kept getting sick.
My one co-worker got sick on the same day as me. I was out for around a week, they were out for 10+ days. Mostly everyone else that got sick, it was a day or two later and they were only sick 1-2 days. Lucky them. It all started after we had a pot luck… So I wonder if someone was spreading it around. Not sure if the effect would take hold that fast or not.
They don’t call it amateur night for nothing… stay in with friends and drink like professionals.
Except I don’t drink at midnight, and I don’t spend the time with anyone.
So sort of like this:
@PlacidPenguin I was frying a couple eggs at midnight. I looked at the clock and it was 12:03. My wife and I said happy new year and ate our eggs.
@SSteve I woke the gf up at 11:58. She rolled over, watched the ball drop, said the lights were cool, said Happy New Year, then returned to dreamland. Yeah, aging gracefully…
@PlacidPenguin I got my damn email server working, finally (Postfix and Dovecot). Been meaning to find the time for that for years.
It was the best New Years I have ever had. It almost wasn’t depressing.
It started raining while we were at dinner (between 4 and 5). It’s the steady light rain. I’m hoping it keeps people home and fireworks in their packaging.
Watchin’ football in my pjs. Beer in hand. Kids in bed. Its going to be a good night.
Anyone check on Betty White?
@mikibell oh no, why?
@mikibell Ah, I see…so far so good from what I can tell.
@mehbee to make sure she survived the night…
https://www.yahoo.com/celebrity/man-sets-up-gofundme-page-to-protect-betty-white-from-2016-205255567.html
@mikibell
She wished everyone a Happy New Year from her twitter account late this afternoon.
@f00l hurray!
I occasionally drive for Uber, and I just could not convince myself to drive tonight. The money from what I understand would be amazing, but with the rain and all the crazies out, it is just not worth it.
@conandlibrarian
If it’s raining or other weather, my philosophy is, follow your instincts. If it were dry, you’d have prob been ok - but if one feel queasy, that’s a good reason to skip out.
@f00l turns out there were a couple of fatalities in my area, with one of the fatalities involving an Uber driver.
Glad I stayed home.