The Christmas bug

This Christmas happened in a big rush. We had two lots of family guests over, there always seemed to be people leaving and people coming. There was an extra guest, many shopping trips, and the cooking took some time. I was either in the kitchen or attendint to one of the kids and didn't even take any pictures. oh did I mention both kids were sick at x'mas?

Lara had diarrhea on Friday, vomited in the middle of the night and spent most of Christmas and Boxing day lying on the couch feeling miserable. Simon must have caught Lara's bug and also had diarrhea early x'mas morning. Sam had eczema on and off for two weeks before x'mas. A friend of a friend (a dermatologist) saw Sam on Friday and thought the eczema was severe and it needed medical attention. It prompted me to get to the doctor's at 5pm on Friday. I knew the itch bothered Sam but I dind't realise it was that bad and thought it would get better by itself. After taking antihistamine (kids Zyrtec), Sam did seem better. It didn't last long as he also caught Lara's gastro bug. He vomited over my new x'mas dress and three days later still vomiting. We had to change his bedding 3 times last night. I didn't think there was anything else left to be puked up!

At one stage (on x'mas morning) we thought we had to put off x'mas lunch! Luckily, besides the kids, nobody else got sick and Simon felt better. The good thing is we have enough food to last us for a long time so it's one less thing I have to think about.