Vomitorium
January 10, 2006
When you find yourself flipping a coin with your husband to see who gets to go to the grocery store without the baby, it's safe to say that your weekend is not going as planned.
Also when you break your toe.
Oh, and the food poisoning. I definitely did not plan on the food poisoning.
So Saturday, Noah was sick. Another damn cold. This time with a little fever and some diarrhea, and my big plans for making Julie's homemade Pedialyte recipe disintegrated within minutes and (since he won the coin toss), I sent Jason to the store for the overpriced real stuff because I couldn't find my measuring spoons.
Later that night I dropped an attachment to my KitchenAid mixer (the very same attachment I purchased so I could make homemade baby food, HAR HAR HAR) on my middle toe, smashing it all the fuck up.
We didn't end up giving any Pedialyte to Noah, as the diarrhea was fleeting and temporary, and by Sunday afternoon he seemed to be well enough to take on a little errand to Babies R' Us, so we could make up for abandoning him at daycare with an overpriced exersaucer and lots of socks.
And then, in a decision I will rue for many, many years, we stopped for lunch at little Latin restaurant and ate SOMETHING BAD AND WRONG AND GOD, I DON'T EVEN KNOW, DON'T MAKE ME TALK ABOUT IT.
(Undercooked pork, we think.)
(Barf.)
I got sick first, a few hours later, and Jason soon followed suit. And THANK THE LORD, Noah went to sleep and stayed asleep, so he didn't have to witness the non-stop puke-a-thon his parents embarked on for the next 10 hours.
Jason and I jockeyed for position over who got to puke in the relative sanctuary of the bathroom and who had to use the kitchen sink, or the little trashcan by the bed, or a stray shopping bag, and sometime around 4 am I broke out the Pedialyte for my damn self, desperate to rehydrate and fighting a losing battle because despite toxic pork poison shooting out both ends, I continued to produce goddamn breastmilk all night. FUCK YOU, BIOLOGY.
So yes, it's been a great couple days.
Yesterday Noah stayed home with us because the mere thought of going out in the smelly world with all its worldy smells made us sick, although if there was ever a day the poor child should have been in the care of someone else, yesterday was it.
I was too weak to hold a bottle steady and Jason put his diaper on backwards. And OF COURSE, this was the diaper he chose to poop in, and it went everywhere and it took both of us together to work up the courage and energy to pull our asses off the couch and change him.
I took him to daycare today, if only to save him from his loving, adoring parents.
We are up to Saltines and water now, and I'm hoping to eat some soup later.
Also, Pedialyte is hella gross.
First? Woo!
(((hugs))) you poor things. Remember the BRAT diet. Banana's, rice, applesause and toast (no butter). Feel better soon.
You poor thing. I've been sick with food poisoning once in my life and I prayed to God to take me now!!
Sending you good wishes for a speedy recovery (and Jason too!)
PS: I wish I could spell or had the energy to install an internet spellcheck on my work pc. Crap.
Whoo- this post brings back memories-- you haven't really been sick til you're sick AND you have some other people to take care of. And they don't care if you're sick or not!
Good luck.
When my oldest son was 12 weeks old, he was hospitalized with salmonella poisoning he got from me. (See? I'M the worst mother in the world!) The only thing keeping him from being on an IV was that he would drink Pedialyte.
PLAIN Pedialyte. By the GALLONS.
The nurses were amazed, and a pediatrician that wasn't even his stopped by because "I had to see this baby that loves plain Pedialyte."
Yep, broke my toe when my son was 3 months. Also had the food poisoning thing with a baby - not fun to force yourself to get up to take care of your child when you can barely stand yourself! Hang in there! At least it was food poisoning and not the flu!
NOTHING is worse than food poisoning. I learned the hard way a few years ago that tuna salad is a BAD IDEA unless you make it yourself. Feel better soon.
That sounds like a rough weekend, feel better.
P.S. I prefer to puke in the kitchen sink with the water running and the garbage disposal on. I can't stand the smell of toilet water!
Sweet Jesus... you poor woman! May better health come to the Storch household VERY VERY soon... I broke a toe once and I've had food poisoning before, but I imagine the combination could be potentially deadly.
What Italian restaurant did you guys eat at?
Oh, I wish I were there to hold your hair back while you barf. Well, maybe not, actually, but I do hope you all feel much better very soon. Tape the broken toe to the one next to it so it won't wiggle around and kill you.
I'm SO sorry to hear about your food poisoning! I've had it not once, but twice. Glad you're starting to feel better.
Also, the exercauser? Probably the best investment you will make of your young child's life. My daughter LOVED hers! It is good exercise and you can actually get things done while they're in it.
Oh my gosh, I feel so bad for you guys! Hope you're feeling better really soon. :)
I'm soooo sorry. That sounds, well, awful. At least Noah wasn't old enough to eat the pork and get sick too, right? (Just trying to see the silver lining.)
He is SO SO SO cute. Sorry you're sick.
Food poisoning is awful. Hope you feel better. Exersaucers on the other hand, are great. But at the risk of sounding too "ass-vicey" he is too young for it. He needs to be able to sit up on his own before you put him in there. Otherwise you will hurt his delicate, immature spine.
Yikes. I hope you feel better soon!
Your post rings of Rockstar Mommy's. Maybe you guys can be accident prone together. Good luck with the recovery.
oh good lord. your description was so intense that i almost sympathy-puked for you. *almost*
hope you guys feel better soon. the munchkin looks to be unaffected by his parents' misery. pffft.
I'm not usually moved to comment, but I'm very phobic about vomit, and this sounds like sheer hell on earth to me. I'm very very sorry and I hope you recover ASAP. At least Noah wasn't in on the puking fun?!?
to be completely unoriginal and copy what everyone else already said: food poisoning sucks. as do broken toes. and i am sorry you guys had such a sucky weekend!
and this may sound kind of weird, but when i am sick like that, the only thing that semi-makes me feel better is to watch the cosby show (older ones, pre-olivia)...there is just something comforting and non-nauseating about it. you might want to check it out.
also, phenegren is a lovely, lovely thing.
hope stuff gets better soon!
Barfing is so ew. Ew. Yuck. The before, during, and after...they all suck big bunny bottoms. I would only wish a barf fest on a very few hand-picked people who DESERVE TO BE PUNISHED, DAMMIT! but that does not include you. And to be barfing with a broken toe? And a baby? And breast milk? Plus some diarrhea? OMG, you deserve a halo. Just, um, wash you hands first, okay?
So, that restaurant probably won't be getting a DCFoodies writeup anytime soon, huh?
Feel better!
Noah seems quite unimpressed by all of the vomiting. He also seems just as adorable as always.
Feel Better.
I feel your pain, baby. I've been there and it's intense. The non stop barfing is not good. And for years to come, you will get sick just thinking about this experience.
Good luck getting better.
Oh, and try some Gatorade and not that Pedialyte.
So basically you had a star-studded and glorious weekend huh?
When we didn't see you at work we had just assumed you high-tailed it to Mexico or something :)
Glad to know you're still here but not that everyone is sick :(
I tried apple Pedialyte when I had morning sickness. After two bottles I opted for dehydration instead. Yuck.
So now you can't use the 'I got food poisoning' excuse on the first beautiful spring day of the season. Unless you go back to the Latin place.
As a Northern Californian, I am amused to see someone using the word "hella" on the East Coast. All my SoCal friends in college assured by that "hella" was some creature that lived only in the Bay Area.
Last week when I had a cold, I wondered how the baby snot sucker would function on an adult.
Sorry you are sick. I got food poisoning like that about a year ago, and I could barely take care of myself. I don't know how you are coping with a baby, especially since Jason's sick too. Feel better soon!
I just now posted about my own similar weekend, but am now feeling far less justified in my self-pity since I had sole use of the toilet and no diapers to change. Because I just cannot even imagine what happens when food poisoning and dirty diapers collide. Actually, yes I can. Yikes.
I am feeling queasy just reading this. You poor things!
ah yes food poisoning. I had a bout with camphlobactor ten years ago that made me a vegetarian for life. For life I tell you. I'n serious when I say that is the reason I give people as to why I don't eat meat. Chicken ain't worth the suffering.
Sending positive upright thoughts from Philly.
jason should scorch that place, so no one else has to experience it! yuck...
pedialyte scares me while safely enclosed in the bottle. you must have felt pretty sick to try it...
feel better!
Oh, you poor things! I hope you feel better soon.
Exersaucers! Rock!
Pedialyte is so bleeeeeeeech. Try Recharge, it's tastier. Get Better Soon, Amy and Jason.
At least you won't wonder why Noah rejects the Pedialyte when he needs it - it is that gross isn't it.
I always make a little mix of juice and flat 7up for my kids, not exactly 100% healthy, but they drink it and it doesn't cut into their college fund (if we had one. Hope you all feel better soon.
Sorry to hear about the food poisoning. Hope you feel better fast!
Man, food poisoning is awful (speaking, unfortunately, from recent experience). Feel better soon!
A couple of weeks ago, I awoke very early in the morning to tornado sirens and the news saying that a cell with rotation was in our area; almost directly overhead. As I headed to the basement, I called a good friend to warn her. Her reply was muffled and groggy but she said she would head downstairs.
I spoke with her later that day and found out she had just gotten to bed after being sick all night. The culprit? 10 day old scallops in the fridge. She had wondered if the Doppler radar had picked up the cell with rotation in her digestive tract.
10 day old scallops?!?! Sheesh!
Am I right to think that any breastmilk you produce when puking your brains out shouldn't be given to the baby?
Figures they hop to it when you're out of commission. Damn boobies.
Oatmeal, love. Works on food poisoning every single time. Absorbs all the yucky stuff in ya.
Ick. I broke my toe, too. It sucks. I'm all gimpy. But I haven't had food poisining since the Thanksgiving of 1999 - and I'm hoping it stays that way because it was the most unfun 48 hours of my life. Feel better soon.
Pedialyte always made my kids puke. Always. They'd smell it a mile away and go, "Blarrrr" and it just made things worse. So we made our own sugar water and it worked a hell of a lot better.
pedialyte is the urine of Satan.
Pedialyte always made my kids puke. Always. They'd smell it a mile away and go, "Blarrrr" and it just made things worse. So we made our own sugar water and it worked a hell of a lot better.
pedialyte is the urine of Satan.
Am sooo sorry to picture you guys actually having to decide who 'gets to' puke in the bathroom. That is a sad, sad thing. Hang in there - food poisoning shouldn't last that much longer... um, right? (I hope that's right, and y'all are almost through with it!)
Ugh. So, so sorry about your miserable miserableness. Food poisoning or stomach flu is easily the most anxiety-producing thought I have. I hope you both feel better VERY quickly. Get some probiotics to help get your systems back to healthy.
As a side note, my son would only ever drink the pedialyte mixed with formula. Worth a shot if you ever get to the point when Noah needs the rehydration. Of course I can't post without pointing out the incredibly obvious fact that he is so completely yummy!
I dread the day that I'm violently ill and still have to take care of the child. Hope you guys feel better soon!
Hope you are both feeling better. Sounds like something my husband got right after our baby had a little bug. Turns out something went around dayacre that WIPED the parents out and the kids only got a minor bug.
Awful either way.
Ugh. The only thing worse than the puke/poos is having to fight over a lone bathroom to surrender to! The exact case at mi casa this past weekend.