If I were to offer you one piece of advice this winter season…it would be that. To absolutely, do not get the flu.
My mom tested positive Wednesday morning. I felt like crap when I woke up on Thursday. Had my husband swab me and test me (he works in a lab), and tested positive. By Friday afternoon, my oldest was down. We’ve been treating the baby and my 5 year old with tamiflu preventatively, but it’s only a matter of time.
Thursday was filled with the worst body pain you can imagine for me. Just…it felt like my whole body got hit by a freaking airplane. All while having 2 out of 3 kids at home…including a baby. Yeah. Moms don’t get sick days.
Yesterday I felt better than the day before…until halfway through the night last night, and my head congestion is just top notch.
I never ran a fever, and am hoping to be just completely over it by tomorrow…but ugh. Last night was sleepless. My nose was just like…oh, did someone leave a sink on? Honestly it was fine until the NyQuil wore off.
My son doesn’t seem nearly as sick today as he did yesterday. His school called me at 2:50, I leave to pick him up at 3, so they just were letting me know he didn’t feel well. He threw up immediately upon getting into my car.
Thank fucking god and the heavens and stars and all that aligned to save my ass but I saw his face and handed him a bag and off to the doctor we went to rule out strep.
One negative strep test later, another down with the flu.
The baby sounds awful today and you can HEAR him wheezing. Not good.
Good thing we’re prepared with an at home nebulizer and breathing treatments. Although he did not like it.
All the kids are on tamiflu, either preventatively or to treat symptoms. I am not, which just super sucks for me.
My husband has yet to go down, but it’s only a matter of time.
Today is my day 3 or 4…and I thought I’d feel better today. Not worse.
Aside from the body pain, this is the sickest I feel. Really just sneezing and head congestion.
My appetite is completely unaffected thankfully and I can still eat normally. Tasting on the other hand…not so much.
The tamiflu seems to be doing its job because Christian seems to be feeling a ton better today than he did yesterday.
Thankfully, when my mom went down, I went ahead and went shopping for absolutely everything flu medicine or prevention possible. So we’re fully stocked.
I’ve been a full time parent with the flu Thursday and Friday. Today is the first day I’ve had to rest…which is hard with 3 kids around…2 of them being sick, and one of them being miserable…the baby.
0/10, do not recommend getting the flu this year. Especially not with 3 kids who don’t have properly functioning bodies and get hit particularly hard with all things illness related.
I need to feel completely better by tomorrow. I need Phoenix to not get sick. Ideally, I need my husband to not get sick as well, but he isn’t taking preventative tamiflu so there’s little hope for him.
Today is pretty miserable for me. I feel pretty shitty. My body just isn’t strong enough to fight anymore.