Yes, the winter vomiting bug has visited our house. First ur little boy got it and then me and my husband. Yesterday was spent in a daze, mostly all three of us laying on the bed half asleep. It was truly awful. I have never felt so drained. I think I had more energy after the birth even. It didn’t help that Tycho refused food and bottles and only wanted to breastfeed. Not sure how much nutrition was in that milk…But after 12 hours in bed, we all feel better. But I really don’t feel like doing that again any time soon. Tycho was amazing though, slept well in his bed while me and Steve were being sick, and played nicely on the floor as I was laying n the sofa trying to muster up some energy to stack some of his cups for him to knock down. I felt like a lousy parent, the poor boy much have been bored out of his mind. It doesn’t help that both him and me have been suffering from a very persistent cold these past 2 weeks. So this weekend we are entering the 3rd weekend of being sick. I am getting very fed up of it all!
In all the throwing up action I must have pulled a neck muscle as it hurts a lot. Hopefully it will pass soon. The MS hasn’t been too bad touch wood. My hand was hurting a lot when my cold was at its worst, but I don’t really know if it was MS related or not. It was a wandering pain that moved from wrist to fingers to the middle of the hand. In fact I think it was swollen and a bit red one day, so I don’t think it was MS related.
Anyway, I am very ready to not be sick anymore, I have had enough of it!
There is often talk about what it costs to have MS on an emotional plane. People might loose partners that don’t understand, or MS can cost you your job if you can’t continue working due to immobility or severe fatigue. They encourage us to talk about these things. But we don’t often hear that is actually also costs a lot of money. It costs the person that has MS a lot, and I guess we also cost the NHS and the government a lot. But lets stick with the first thing first.
Tycho who is teething like mad, I can see several white pegs coming through now, went for his Swine flu jab today. I wouldn’t think babies remembered 4 months back but he seemed to know exactly what was gonna happen and started crying as soon as the nurse told us to put him on the bed. Poor Tyke
So far so good, he is still troubled by his teeth and has lots of gum pains, but doesn’t seem to fussed about the injection. I guess we’ll have to see how the night goes. He is already yawning plenty.
My fatigue is bad today. I guess it comes from weeks of no proper sleep. It feels like gravity suddenly changed and my body is made of lead. I really hope for the teeth to pop through soon so we can go back to full nights sleep. Oh glorious days of 11 hours sleep, how I miss thee!
Yes, the tummy bug is gone. It took him more or less 10 days before he started eating properly again. However he is still refusing food from jars. So it is only home-cooking that works. Oh well I guess it is better that way anyway!
But the teething is back, three new teeth in the upper jaw are showing up. With the teething are the sleepless nights back once again. I don’t think I have had a proper nights sleep for over 2 weeks now. So it is fair to say my fatigue is not happy. Or indeed it is happy and back. Makes me wonder what it will be like coming back to work when I can’t lay down and have a rest during the day. If it wasn’t for the two naps he has when I lay down with him, I don’t think I could even function. It does scare me a bit what it will be like going back to work, I do miss working, but I wonder what my fatigue and all that malarkey will do. I have been so lucky not having any relapses, so I guess it is far to say the more stressed and tired I am the worse my MS gets. So I really hope that things will be ok once I got back to work too.
Hellie is a woman with MS who had her first child in April 2008. Here she blogs about what it is like living with MS. All views and opinions expressed are her own and not those of the MS Trust.
Hellie is a woman with MS who had her first child in April 2008. Here she blogs about what it is like living with MS. All views and opinions expressed are her own and not those of the MS Trust.
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