the domino effect

Asher threw up on me Saturday. All down the front of my shirt, just minutes before leaving the house. Since he is known to spit up pretty frequently, I didn't think to much about it. That night he threw up a little more. I was close enough to  a bathroom to actually lean him over the toilet. His aim was impeccable. But I was now a little concerned. 

Within hours I was feeling nauseous. Another hour later, I found myself hunch over the toilet vomiting.  Sadly, with not as good of an aim.

I had hoped that this was over. 

In the middle of the night, using as little light as necessary to ensure everyone stay asleep, I found myself disinfecting our house. I laugh looking back. I was feeling horrible, and it required me dragging a waste basket around just in case, all to prevent what was sure to come anyways. With every wipe I felt more and more sick. 

It was just then I heard a little gag on the baby monitor. I shook your dad who went running down to check on his boys. Sure enough, you were covered in your own vomit, and so was your bed, and the walls. We couldn't even get you upstairs and in a shower before you threw up again.

The remainder of that evening you threw up on another six blankets. By morning you had thrown up on all of the bedding we own. Laundry was being done around the clock. 

Dad had a meeting at 6am, which he surprisingly stayed awake for considering he had spent most of the evening bathing one child or another, and constantly doing laundry. It was on his way home from his early meeting, about 8am, when he was grabbing us some necessities, he started to feel sick.

Over the next twelve hours, you, me and your dad were either sleeping, or dry heaving.

When we thought things couldn't get worse, we all broke out into fevers. It was evident that you wanted to peel over just as much as mom and dad when you refrained from getting up, or moving in the slightest after you had tripped and fell onto your own mattress.

Fortunately it was a short bug. By morning the next day you were requesting cereal like nothing had happened.

So when one person gets sick, no matter how much you try to disinfect, every one gets sick, hence the domino effect.