Stomach bug!
TLDR; toddler caught stomach bug. Freaked out but handled it with as much grace as possible. Everything is okay!!
My almost 2 year old got hit with something awful. The past three days I’ve been living my worst nightmare.
Wednesday night he had some really watery diarrhea, blew out of his diaper. We brushed it off as a fluke and probably due to something he ate. Next day Thursday, we go to my elderly grandparents house (my grandma has lung cancer and is currently undergoing immunotherapy infusions) and this kid is just super grumpy the whole time, acting sleepy. Hang out there for about 2 hours and have lunch (little dude has no appetite but chalked it up to him being distracted in a different space) and head home because he’s being such a grump.
The second we walk in the door I’m hanging up my purse and look over at him and he just has the *look*. I freeze and he proceeded to spew all over the side of the couch and again on the floor. I’m still frozen in shock, my partner scoops him up and tries to rush him to the bathroom, fumbles with the door, he pukes again down the door and the floor there, partner opens the door then also fumbles with the closed toilet lid, kid pukes down the side of the toilet and in front of it. Lol all that fuss for him to make exactly 0% of the vomit in the toilet.
Partner tells me to go to my bedroom and calm down and he will clean up but ofc I don’t trust him to clean it well enough so while he gets kiddo cleaned up and in the bath I started wiping everything down and prepping the mop with floor sanitizer, spraying bleach, what have you. Finally make it to the bathroom to clean up that mess, this man is in the bath WITH baby. I’m like bro you’re effectively bathing in a vat of vomit particles?!? Whatever, I continue on cleaning, thoroughly wash my hands and change my clothes.
Feeling very proud of myself for handling that, I prep a dose of zofran for little dude then go sit in my room to decompress and inevitably start spiraling. Did I clean enough? Did we share food or drink the past few days? Should I have worn gloves and mask? Are my grandparents going to be okay? Where could he have gotten this? How long until it hits my partner? How long until it hits me? Which bathroom should I use now?
And here we are, Sunday morning, kiddo is back to his normal self (for the most part), my partner and I aren’t sick, and it wasn’t the end of the world. Don’t get me wrong this has been EXTREMELY anxiety inducing but something about coming out the other end of this mostly unscathed and knowing I’ve been taking care of my son regardless of the vomit makes me feel proud.
I’m still on edge but collecting data and the data says, we’re OKAY.