The totally off-topic thread

[QF WP]

What a 48 hours!

My son woke us up vomiting on Mon 1.30am and over the next 2 hours did what most sick kids do ... Cry and vomit.

Tues 6am it was my wife's turn - she had apparently been up since around midnight with nausea/churning stomach/gas. She has the day off work to look after my son (who had a day off childcare).

I thought my daughter and I had missed it, but it hit me (same symptoms as my wifes') at midday. Got home after picking up my daughter at after-school care at 6pm and couldn't take it any more - self administered vomiting. Still feeling sore (understandably) and indigestion/reflux still going now.

We were hoping that my daughter had missed it, but at 9.30pm just when are preparing for bed, she woke up sobbing, saying she felt sick in the stomach. I gave her some milk, hoping it would speed up the process (expecting it to curdle and aid in the quick rejection of the entire stomach contents) but I told her stories until she anazingly fell asleep and apart from whimpering a bit has stayed asleep. For the last two and a quarter hours I have been sitting by her bed, holding her, watching for the quick body reaction to one that is about to vomit but I can't stay up any longer - I am shattered.

Thank God for Lucozade (for the adults). No, I don't think any of us will be venturing out tomorrow.

Anybody else got this bug going around?

 

[anat0l]

Anybody else got this bug going around?

Nope, but I'm staying well away from your place:!:

Hope you get better soon.

 

[QF WP]

What, not going to drop around chicken soup??

 

[anat0l]

What, not going to drop around chicken soup??

Perhaps not; quarantine provisions would require me to deliver it to you via a fire hose. :mrgreen:

 

[Flashback]

Hope you all get better soon! Reminds me of when I just got back from Africa and heck, it aint much fun!

 

[JohnK]

It is a bit of a shock to hear that Ian Turpie had died, I guess the stuff you read on the Off Topic Thread. Who needs news; if its important it will get a mention.

News is depressing and I try to stay away from it as much as possible. I will read a few pages of sport but hardly ever look at the front of a newspaper.

So a lot of the stuff I read on AFF is news to me most times. Cheap airfares, credit card offers, bonus point offers etc

Anybody else got this bug going around?

Hope not! Does not sound too crash hot but then again with some of the stuff I have had over the years I do not even remember having them.

 

[dfcatch]

Been playing with monkeys Lindsay?

 

[beardoc]

Anybody else got this bug going around?

Many friends (and myself) have been hit with this over the last week. It's a nasty one.

 

[rechoboam]

What a 48 hours!



Anybody else got this bug going around?

Had the same one!!
It was gruesome. 1st my wife said she needed to go to hospital or maybe intensive care, I found that hard to believe until I got it. Severe reflux for about 6 hours until I decided to yawn technocolorly. Friends had it too, I insisted they vomit. Funnily enough after the vomiting we all felt quite fine.

 

[Princess Fiona]

No sickness here. Just amazed to still be awake at 9.25 pm in LHR having arrived at 06.20 this morning and been at a conference all day. Matchsticks for the eyelids required
OT the 65K points upgrade from J -F SYD-LHR on the A380 was totally worthwhile and probably accounting for me still being awake

 

[medhead]

Anybody else got this bug going around?

Not this year. Had something go through the family last year starting with me on 12 December. Father in law just had major surgery and ended up back in hospital; his father also ended up having a few days in hospital. Testing showed they had Rota virus. It basically cleared for me overnight, but my body purged hard (no gross details but I was a couple of times), SWMBO took a couple of days but her body restricted the purging. The kids were in between.


Sent from the Throne (80% chance) using Aust Freq Fly app

 

[QF WP]

It's nice to know I haven't been going through this alone. After drinking a second Lukozade and taking 2 Panamax, I woke up this morning feeling better - but still a little delicate and head is still fuzzy. Mrs LW better and daughter got very lucky. Son has either croup or something similar, barking like a seal. The inhaler in his room helped.

A day at home for me

 

[QF WP]

??? I thought they just stole handbags & cameras and if they scratched you, you'd pick up something bad....

Been playing with monkeys Lindsay?

 

[dfcatch]

??? I thought they just stole handbags & cameras and if they scratched you, you'd pick up something bad....

Just making sure you didn't pick up something more "exotic"

 

[QF WP]

No, from the sounds of everyone else here, a 24 to 48 hour strain. Self purging is never something to look forward to having to do, but amazing how one feels afterwards.

 

[QF WP]

Thinking that it is the rotavirus, it makes sense that my daughter wasn't affected as badly - she'd had the vaccination for it. Not sure if my son is old enough to have had the vaccination. Looks like my wife and I now have some antibodies. Hope they stick around, don't want that back anytime soon

 

[Nigelinoz]

Sounds horrible Lindsay,
I hope you,Mr's LW and the kids are all much better very soon.
Take Care
Cheers
N'oz

 

[drron]

Some light entertainment-
Plane Hits Cows When They Fail to Mooove Off Venezuela Runway | NYCAviation

Unless of course if you are a cow.

 

[straitman]

I hope you all get better soon LW. Having just been through two weeks of wife sick with the flue, I can relate a little.

 

[awilcockson]

I was just pricing up a "New iPad" on the Apple site, and noticed the item is described as:

Mal. Apple Product. Pricing up?

Has the world gone topsy-turvy?