nothing dramatic, just bumps in the road
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aryanhwyTuesday:
- Since our flight on Tuesday was a daytime flight, Gwen didn't really sleep. She napped about an hour after take off, and dozed for maybe another 1.5-2 hours the rest of the flight, but other than that, I had a squirmy baby on my lap.
- I've gotten out of the habit of keeping a spare change of clothes in her diaper bag, because it would sit in there unused so long that she'd outgrow it and I'd forget to update it. Of course, on the flight when Joel went to change her diaper the first time, she peed all over her onesie and PJs. So I had a naked (except for diaper) squirmy baby on my lap. Luckily, it wasn't one of those frigid flights, and she was sitting on a pillow that had a flannel pillow case, and we had a blanket with, so she wasn't cold (and was awfully cute).
Wednesday:
- Heading from Fort Wayne to my parents', we hit Chicago just at rush hour. We also missed the 294 turn off, so we took 94 all the way through the center of the city. Honestly, I'd actually rather navigate Chicago at rush hour than at full speeds, since it's a lot easier to read signs, change lanes, etc., when you're going 25mph instead of 70mph.
- We're not sure what the cause was (we think maybe motion sickness, since there was a lot of starting and stopping), but midway through Chicago, Gwen threw up. 13 months we'd made it without any throw up, and then for her first time, it's in a car when we're at least an hour away from being able to pull off and stop someplace. Poor Joel who gets really urky himself when having to deal with puke had to clean her up as best he could (since I was driving).
Thursday:
- We got on the road to MN just as the storm coming in changed from rain to snow. It took more than 2 hours to get to Madison, averaging about 30mph down the interstate.
- Which meant a 6.5+ hour car ride instead of a ~5 hour one, and an increasingly bored and unhappy baby in the car seat.
Friday:
- Gwen woke up around 5:00 (to be fair she's done remarkably well with the time change; woke at 6:20 the first morning, which is a reasonable time, then Wednesday night/Thursday morning she was up from about 3:15-4:00 but then went back to sleep decently), and I fed her, but she wasn't interested in going back to sleep, so we went downstairs and played for awhile, and luckily she went back to sleep around 6:15 for about two hours, but even though I did was well, I was awfully tired the rest of the day.
- Because she slept until about 8:00, she didn't really get a morning nap (about half an hour on the road as we went to pick up the rental car), and then she didn't settle down and take an afternoon nap until late, and then it was short. So she was really tired by late afternoon. I thought we were lucky when she fell asleep in the car when I went to pick up Joel, and due to traffic she got to sleep about 1h15m, but when we woke her up she woke crying and unhappy and was generally miserable and cranky through the party where I'd hoped she'd be sweet and charming and glorious as she usually is.
Saturday:
- Around 4:00 is when I heard her starting to cough, and also it sounded like she was straining with a bit of constipation, but amazingly even though it kept sounding like she was waking up, she didn't...until about 6:00 when she threw up. And then a second time in the bathroom while we were trying to get everything cleaned up. She seemed fine afterwards, and we played for about an hour before I gave her her morning bottle, and then I lay her down to go back to sleep...and she threw up again. At that point, I decided to give her a bath, keep her up a bit longer, and finally she went back to sleep about 20 minutes ago. I, of course, am now too awake to try going back to bed myself. Oh, and Joel's digestion has also been unhappy all night long, and he's not sure if he's going to be well enough to come to family Christmas today.
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This is just a whiny post cataloguing all the little things that have gone wrong this trip so far. It completely ignores all the other things that have gone right and have been really pretty awesome. I'll try to write another post about them, but after having gotten up at 6:00am to clean up puke, I'm not really in the mood.
- Since our flight on Tuesday was a daytime flight, Gwen didn't really sleep. She napped about an hour after take off, and dozed for maybe another 1.5-2 hours the rest of the flight, but other than that, I had a squirmy baby on my lap.
- I've gotten out of the habit of keeping a spare change of clothes in her diaper bag, because it would sit in there unused so long that she'd outgrow it and I'd forget to update it. Of course, on the flight when Joel went to change her diaper the first time, she peed all over her onesie and PJs. So I had a naked (except for diaper) squirmy baby on my lap. Luckily, it wasn't one of those frigid flights, and she was sitting on a pillow that had a flannel pillow case, and we had a blanket with, so she wasn't cold (and was awfully cute).
Wednesday:
- Heading from Fort Wayne to my parents', we hit Chicago just at rush hour. We also missed the 294 turn off, so we took 94 all the way through the center of the city. Honestly, I'd actually rather navigate Chicago at rush hour than at full speeds, since it's a lot easier to read signs, change lanes, etc., when you're going 25mph instead of 70mph.
- We're not sure what the cause was (we think maybe motion sickness, since there was a lot of starting and stopping), but midway through Chicago, Gwen threw up. 13 months we'd made it without any throw up, and then for her first time, it's in a car when we're at least an hour away from being able to pull off and stop someplace. Poor Joel who gets really urky himself when having to deal with puke had to clean her up as best he could (since I was driving).
Thursday:
- We got on the road to MN just as the storm coming in changed from rain to snow. It took more than 2 hours to get to Madison, averaging about 30mph down the interstate.
- Which meant a 6.5+ hour car ride instead of a ~5 hour one, and an increasingly bored and unhappy baby in the car seat.
Friday:
- Gwen woke up around 5:00 (to be fair she's done remarkably well with the time change; woke at 6:20 the first morning, which is a reasonable time, then Wednesday night/Thursday morning she was up from about 3:15-4:00 but then went back to sleep decently), and I fed her, but she wasn't interested in going back to sleep, so we went downstairs and played for awhile, and luckily she went back to sleep around 6:15 for about two hours, but even though I did was well, I was awfully tired the rest of the day.
- Because she slept until about 8:00, she didn't really get a morning nap (about half an hour on the road as we went to pick up the rental car), and then she didn't settle down and take an afternoon nap until late, and then it was short. So she was really tired by late afternoon. I thought we were lucky when she fell asleep in the car when I went to pick up Joel, and due to traffic she got to sleep about 1h15m, but when we woke her up she woke crying and unhappy and was generally miserable and cranky through the party where I'd hoped she'd be sweet and charming and glorious as she usually is.
Saturday:
- Around 4:00 is when I heard her starting to cough, and also it sounded like she was straining with a bit of constipation, but amazingly even though it kept sounding like she was waking up, she didn't...until about 6:00 when she threw up. And then a second time in the bathroom while we were trying to get everything cleaned up. She seemed fine afterwards, and we played for about an hour before I gave her her morning bottle, and then I lay her down to go back to sleep...and she threw up again. At that point, I decided to give her a bath, keep her up a bit longer, and finally she went back to sleep about 20 minutes ago. I, of course, am now too awake to try going back to bed myself. Oh, and Joel's digestion has also been unhappy all night long, and he's not sure if he's going to be well enough to come to family Christmas today.
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This is just a whiny post cataloguing all the little things that have gone wrong this trip so far. It completely ignores all the other things that have gone right and have been really pretty awesome. I'll try to write another post about them, but after having gotten up at 6:00am to clean up puke, I'm not really in the mood.
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Date: 2012-12-22 02:58 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-12-22 10:04 pm (UTC)Probably the worst for us was when we had made it to age... 3 or so I think, and the kid had NEVER thrown up OR had diarrhea. And we were at an SCA event far from home. And she started to get whiny and demand to go to the bathroom. So we went, and she had the runs, and was Quite Freaked Out about it. I got her calmed down, and made the call to go back to the hotel early that evening, and just as we pulled into the hotel parking lot, it came out the OTHER end. All over her garb, carseat, and self, and all we had were the sparse hotel towels. In addition to having to clean it all up, she was freaked out all over again by the experience. Sigh.
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Date: 2012-12-23 03:21 pm (UTC)Joel, on the other hand, threw up about 10 min. after I posted this entry, and ended up staying in bed all day and skipping the Christmas get together, which turned out to be a good thing given how ill he was the rest of the day. He finally started feeling human again late last night, but it's 9:30am, and he's still sleeping.
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Date: 2012-12-23 06:28 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-12-24 11:15 am (UTC)http://www.hpa.org.uk/NewsCentre/NationalPressReleases/2012PressReleases/121218HPAupdateonseasonalnorovirusactivity/
What the numbers don't explain is whether this is a surveillance artifact (ie hospitals are paying closer attention to the figures of boring stuff like diarrhoea and vomiting (D&V), and thus sending more samples for confirmation) or if there genuinely is more of it around.
The scientists can't tell til the end of the season, in the spring, and by then the question is moot!
For D&V, often hospitals and clinics won't bother sending samples for verification. You're obviously throwing up and are sick, so they diagnose you 'clinically' (by symptoms) rather than request laboratory confirmation, because the treatment is strictly for symptoms: fluids, rest, avoiding contact with others, washing your hands a lot. Norovirus is highly contagious, but most of the time isn't very serious, so long as you're generally healthy.
The only advantage to lab confirmation is to give a strain type, which is useful for epidemiologists keeping an eye on how it spreads, and entertaining for virologists. But doesn't do a danged thing for you when you're the one throwing up.
So: pick up some pedialyte (replacement electrolyte stuff for kids), and wash your hands a lot. Wipes and disinfectant gel isn't as good as soap and water.
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Date: 2012-12-24 04:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-24 07:21 pm (UTC)