I went in last night and talked to my doctor about this phobia, I'm so sick and tired of it ruling my life. She's setting me up with a therapist for cognitive therapy. Since my fear is of vomiting only, not germs in general, she feels this will be treated fairly easily. She said it's good that I'm not a full blown germ-a-phobe. It's true, I could care less about colds or anything else, it's JUST the stomach flu. So anyway, now I wait for a phone call to start my treatment or whatever it is! We'll see.

In the meantime, I'm biting the bullet and sending my 5 y/o back to school tomorrow. I can't keep her home forever, it's been 2 weeks now of her being home. If she gets sick, she gets sick I guess...and like my husband said, it will be one really crappy week of the sickness going through our house and me cleaning like a mad woman, and then it will be over and we'll be free of that for possibly the rest of the school year, or at least a few months. I'm at the point where I just kind of want them to get it, and get it over with, and be done. My husband will stay home to help out if he needs to, if it hits in the night he'll deal with it, and I'll try to keep our 6 month old away from the germs if possible.

Wish me luck!