Running Commentary

The Xmas Curse Continues December 26 2005

For the last few years me and my family have been ILL for xmas. Last year we had a stomach bug…a bad one. We vomited away our xmas day and boxing day. The first spew of the season was xmas eve. I believe Chris had hard boiled eggs all alone for xmas dinner.
This year we all seemed to get a cold earlier in the month and I assumed we made it. Everyone was happy and healthy until Wednesday. That’s when Noah first puked. It came and went all week. Diarrhea and a little vomit here and there. He would fine one day and then ill the next. It was like Xmas was playing with us. A cruel cruel joke. Thursday night Brendan was up in the washroom about 5 times and then finally puked at about 5am. Ugh. Here it comes, I thought. Another xmas with our heads in a bucket.
But no, it wasn’t nearly that bad. We had several trips to the washroom during our xmas gathering, but there was only one vomit episode. Which belonged to Noah and was induced by whipped cream combined with coughing.
there were NO FEVERS this year. NO asthma, NO all over body chills. NO nyquil! No pepto bismal!
It just didn’t feel like a usual dingdong xmas….thank GOD for that.