Christmas Eve Stomach Flu

It was official...  by 9:30 am, Cora had thrown up a couple times (still only flem), but was pale, achy and not doing well.  She was confined to her room...  with a bucket, sippy of water, a towel and her bed.  That's it.  She didn't want to do anything... not even color. 

As the day went on... she threw up a total of about 4 times (again, only flem), which was a huge plus, but also frustrating to her.  She didn't have anything in her tummy, but it felt so icky.  She was a SUPER champ all day long... so brave in between the throwing up, and just spacing off...  and lots of rests.  I think she slept about 8 hours in a 12 hour period of time.  It exhausted her.  

About 5:00 pm, she perked up...  asked for a cracker.  She ate one saltine cracker (and took her about an hour to eat it!)... drank more water, and some 7up.  And it all stayed down.  She then took another hard snooze from about 6:15 til about 7:15... then she seemed MUCH better.  She was talking, wanting me to stay in her room and 'play' (which consisted of looking at some new playing cards she got... and just talking).  Again, so darn brave.  I was so proud of her...  cuz I know I would have been a mess (and was a mess just worrying about her... and everyone else!!!)

Sunday night (Christmas Eve), her and I obviously stayed home... the boys went to church for Christmas Eve service, which I was super bummed about missing.  Ryan Skyped me in tho, so that was nice...  I was able to hear most of it.  

Bedtime came for the kids... Cora had some cheerios before bed, and slept all night long.  She was a new person by Christmas morning (thank God).  She was a little quiet, and slow... but overall, we could tell she felt much better, and as the day went on, she was 100% attitude.  :)

So the stomach flu lasted about 14 hours-ish for her.  Poor thing.