about stomach virus I am going to SCREAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM. Wait, I just did.



Enough, enough, enough - dienu!!!!!



One of my best friends just called me. She and her daughters were
sick with the stomach virus this week. Her one daughter had it
Tuesday night. The other one got sick at school on Thursday and
then my friend had it Thursday night. She said each of them v***
every 15 minutes for nine hours. Every where I go I hear about
nothing other than stomach viruses. I don't hear about colds,
(influenza only lasted two weeks around here or anything else. If
someone tells me they have been sick I don't even ask with what I just
say "the stomach virus?" and of course, they say yes.



I spoke with a friend of mine who is a pediatric nurse in a major
hospitalaround here and she said they had no confirmed cases of
influenza this winter. All they have seen in epidemic proportions
is the stomach virus. She said the ER has been full every night
since before Christmas with this. She did mention quite a few ear
infections for the little ones (kids between one and four) but
everything else has been stomach virus.



Another friend of mine is a public school psychologist told me two weeks ago that her school was infested with it.



Okay - so this has been going around for about four months.
Actually we knew of several people with it in October and November so
technically this has been going around for six months.



Tonight my daughter is at a sleepover party. She is in second
grade. I really did not want to let her go because of the stomach
virus epidemic. On the other hand I don't want to ruin her life
with my emet phobic behavior. I checked to see if anyone of the
12 girls there had been sick in the past 72 hours and non had
been. Now I am pacing the floors wondering who is incubating this
bug while they are at the party. I gave my daughter dinner before
I took her to the party even though I knew dinner was going to be
served there. She hates cake and pretzels so I know she
won't eat them. I also told her that I would give her breakfast
tomorrow and not to eat anything sitting in a bowl that other people
could put their hands in. The only thing I can really do is just
wait 48 hours after she comes home.



It is almost March 6th. When the f*** is this damn virus going to go away? Can you tell I am at the end of my rope?



Stella