Loooong week

Sunday, 5-2-10

Boy, has it been a loooong week! I still need to do a post on last weekend's visit with Grandma and Granddad Murphy. However, I don't anticipate having a lot of time and wanted to at least get this post done about the week. I don't think we ever have had such a week as the one we had this past week.

It started last Sunday. Grandma and Granddad had left and I was getting ready to have the girls over for card club. Kurt was out of town for the weekend, not returning until Monday evening. The girls arrived. Things were going well. Amy was enjoying seeing all of the girls and visiting, though she was being a little clingy with me, which is pretty unusual. I soon found out why she was clingy. As everyone was getting their plates filled up with food, poor little Amy started throwing up. A lot. Mainly on me since I was holding her but also on the floor right next to the island with food and the table where people were going to sit and eat. Oh no. I quickly rushed her upstairs to clean her up and to get new clothes on her...and me. I have such good friends that by the time I came downstairs, they had already cleaned up the vomit. Although they offered to leave, I told them it was fine to stay as long as they were okay with it. Poor Amy continued to throw up periodically throughout the evening. At one point, I put her to bed only to have her throw up in bed. So, I simply held her throughout the evening, though she periodically would get down to play or go visit with some of the girls! My girlfriends are so wonderful and were so supportive. They helped with the continual loads of laundry as well as cleaning up. The girls finally left around 9:30pm or so. I put Amy to bed again, though she threw up at least two more times before it was all over. In addition, she didn't sleep well at all. So, I don't think I slept more than two hours in my bed that night.

On Monday, Amy seemed to be feeling a little better, though was occasionally lethargic. She didn't eat much, which was understandable. Kurt returned home that evening around 6pm. Both Amy & I were glad to see him!

Tuesday, Amy actually seemed worse. She slept almost the entire day. She seemed to have little energy and no appetite. By this time, my stomach also was feeling a bit queasy throughout most of the day. The positive is that Amy had not throw up since Sunday night...though she also wasn't eating much.

Thursday, I finally took her to the doctor. In addition to lingering effects of the stomach bug (which is what the doctor thought she had), Amy also had an ear infection. So, we started an antibiotic after the doctor's appointment.

Thursday night/Friday morning, Amy threw up again. Bless her heart. We rocked for several hours after this and neither one of us slept very much.

Surprisingly, Amy seemed much better on Friday morning. She had an appetite and didn't throw up. She also kept her energy level after she ate and actually played with her Little People.

This weekend, Amy has been more fussy than usual and still doesn't have much of an appetite. We are hoping that she is over the worst of it and she will be back to normal soon. She's having some difficulty with her naps, i.e., today she slept less than an hour compared to her normal almost 2 hour naps. She has been more obstinate today and really hasn't liked anything that we have done! :) I'm hoping that it is still lingering effects of not feeling well rather than the stereotypical "terrible two's" emerging!

As a side note, due to not feeling well myself, I have not had much of an appetite this week either. Consequently, my runs have been terrible!! I wasn't able to run more than a few miles two days this week. This weekend, the runs were a bit longer (today I did 6.5 miles) but it felt very labored. Needless to say, this creates much concern as the mini-marathon is next Saturday. Oh well. There is nothing I can do about it now. I know that I've gotten my long runs in (last weekend, I did almost 14 miles) so I just have to see what the day brings.

I'll hopefully post about our fun time with Grandma and Granddad Murphy soon! We're praying for a healthy week!