Showing posts with label Stomach. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stomach. Show all posts

Monday, November 22, 2010

Mommy Madness

11/22/2010 5 Comments
Welcome to my day. I shall invite you in but with fair warning that you might want to run the other way. You see this morning I was trying to get Charlie ready for school and he was not cooperating. He said me do school at home. I told him that wasn't an option today and he had to get dressed. He then said his belly hurt and I checked him, he seemed fine. I convinced him to go to school so I got him dressed and off to school he went. If you have read my previous posts you will understand why I was so willing to put him on the bus. Can we say desperation for some sanity time?

I then proceeded to follow this up with a call to the school notifying them of my son's stomach ache. In other words I had to cover up the fact that I was sending him to school with a belly ache, by showing concern calling the school. This was around nine o'clock. At around 10:30 the school called me to ask me to pick him up. He had vomited all over himself and, to make it worse, he didn't have a change of clothes. When he got home he seemed fine. He said he felt better after informing me that he had started puking on the bus but he drinked it. Can we say gross??? He then proceeded to describe his puke to me and how it splattered on the floor. While I should be ecstatic that my son was able to be so verbal about this incident, it was downright disgusting and I didn't need to know. Who wants to hear about puke??

Could it get worse than that? YES!!!! I answer that quickly and sincerely!! I can't remember how many times he has vomited today but other than the vomit he is active and happy. Just a hint, If your child says My stomach.... run the other way. At least that's how I feel about it. I think my feelings on this issue became even stronger today. I approached him to give him a bucket because he said his stomach hurt, and before he even got the words out of his mouth vomit flew through the air onto my foot.Yuck!!! OMG....

Might I add that I have a very weak stomach and well, that did not help. I was gagging trying to stop my stomach from overturning, while debating on how to approach this disaster.  The thought to bribe my twelve year old when she came home from school to clean it up, but figured this would end in a bigger mess. I even considered calling FEMA and having them clean it up. These ideas were not reasonable,so I covered my nose and mouth with my shirt and a towel held open away from me. I tossed it over the mess and stepped away to gag some more. Oh My!!! How is it that after four children I still cannot manage to clean up puke with out puking myself?  All this time my son was sitting in the living room cuddled over a bucket with droll dripping down his chin. What a mom I am, no loving patting his back and telling him he is ok, No wiping his chin. Just tossing him a cloth from a distance and staying as far away from it as possible. Puke to me is like garlic to a vampire.

I did manage to clean it up, light incense and mop with a lot of Pine Sol. These items, were my saviors and thank god I have a washing machine. Imagine all of the top repeated about five times like a record with a scratch in it.  Ooops, now I must sound old cause I don't know how many people even know what a record looks like any more. I hope you enjoyed my post more than I have enjoyed my day.
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Friday, November 12, 2010

No Superwoman Here (via Motherhood, WTF?)

11/12/2010 0 Comments
I read a blog today that reminded me of myself so I have decided to re-blog it. This is a first for me so after a lot of tweaking I think it has worked. This is an awesome post..If you are a mom I am sure you can relate to these situations. I know I can, and have had similar experiences. The moments are many and well, I humble myself in saying this is one of them.

One of mine would have to be when I had just had my second daughter. We were visiting a friends house and it was the first time we had ever been there. My daughter was only about 4 months old and my other little girl was about 5 years old. We were sitting on the couch talking when the baby pucked on my oldest. She has a very weak stomach, which she must get from me. LOL... Well, when the baby pucked on her it was a chain reaction. I really tried to make it to the bathroom but my 5 year old pucked on me and well, that brought the uncontrollable reaction that my stomach alone controls. It was so extremely embarrassing but something that I can look back on and laugh.

This is not the first time this has occurred but this one is up there on the list. I think the puke "weakness" stands out so much cause my oldest had Gastric problems and was a projectile vomiter. You would think I would have adjusted. Nope... Still to this day it is a chain reaction and if there is someone else to clean it, they are elected. Similar to when my whole house got the stomach flu and I was tossing towels over it and spraying Lysol to cover the smell while I waited for my best friend to come over and clean it up. Ummmm.... a very humbling experience. It would be great to just hear a little about some of your "weak" moments as a mom so we all may appreciate those moments a little more. Maybe not when they are occurring but I find myself laughing about them later.
Generally I feel confident in my abilities to do just about anything. I figure if someone else can do it, then I probably can too. This is the attitude I had at 9 or 10 when I decided the bar in my closet needed to be raised from little kid height to normal height. I got my dad's tools and removed the brackets from the wall, repositioned them, re-screwed them in and replaced the bar. I did a fine job and the bar is still holding strong today, lev … Read More
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