Family Traditions November 27, 2005
Holidays are filled with family traditions. Some are wonderful, some not so much. It seems to be that our new Thanksgiving tradition is getting sick. Oh, yes. You know where this is going. I got to spend the holiday weekend puking my guts up.
This has been the third Thanksgiving in recent years that my family has spent sick. One year it was a week long stomach virus thing. One year it was food poisoning. This year it was another stomach virus, but thankfully a little shorter run version.
We made it into town just in time to watch family member by family member come down with this stomach virus. Once we figured out what was going on, it was too late to escape. We figured we had been exposed by that point. All of our plans, including attending the big family get together with all the traditional Thanksgiving fare, were scrapped. We did have some yummy gumbo, though.
We left early to come back home so that if we were going to get sick that we could at least do so in our own home. Sure enough, I started feeling sick Friday afternoon. By Friday night I knew things were going to get bad.
I really don’t like stomach viruses, and I really don’t like puking. I don’t like being stuck in bed all day either. I think at one point yesterday I was begging my husband to kill me.
As an added bonus, my period finally showed on Friday night, so I got to experience some lovely cramps along with everything else. Of course I couldn’t take anything for them, since I couldn’t keep a damn thing down. Fun times. My silver lining was that I lost 2.5 pounds in one day. Now that’s a good diet plan.
This morning I woke up and started to feel like I might just live through this “family tradition” again this year. My husband has yet to come down with it. (knock on wood) I guess we should know soon enough if he was the only lucky one to escape it.
- Posted in : various other ramblings
- Author : amanda
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Ugh!! You poor thing! That is just the worst. Glad you are feeling better and I hope the hubby doesn’t get it!
i’ve had that thanksgiving before, complete w/sleeping on the br floor while my husband sat beside me reading heidi b/c my mom organizes her books by color and we were staying in the room with all the green ones…
glad you’re feeling better and hope your husband escapes! i remember mine and my sister’s were both spared!
Oh yuck. You poor dears. Feel better soon and smile at the knowledge that your pants fit today (unlike everyone else’s!).
Oh, poor you. I hope today you’re feeling like you WILL live through this tradition! And hey, I like the bonus of losing 2.5 pounds - although I’m really not sure if it’s worth it…
Hope you’re feeling much better by now!