Not the best start to the weekend.....

rlw

mrsrlw has, we think, caught the norovirus.  She was up five time in the night to be sick and a to be smitten with the runs.  She's been sick several times during the day and her only food, a crunchy bar, was thrown up almost immediately.  She still has the runs too, but not quite so bad.   She's drinking apple juice, tea and water and that's it.  She is as grey as a dirty sheet and very sweaty.

I have been scrupulously clean all day, using kitchen towels, bleach and bleachy products for washing up and cleaning, not getting to close to her at all and have doubled my personal hygiene regime.

Am I going to get it though?  Two days for the bastard to mutate again and get me, so tomorrow night/Sunday morning.  Lucky poos will, I think, be inappropriate.

Emp_Fab

You're fucked.  When you're projectile ejecting from both ends, just remind yourself you're lucky it's not ebola.

That's about as encouraging as I can be I'm afraid!

rlw

Emp_Fab said:

You're fucked.  When you're projectile ejecting from both ends, just remind yourself you're lucky it's not ebola.

That's about as encouraging as I can be I'm afraid!

Thank you for your encouraging words

cruxiform

rlw said:

mrsrlw has, we think, caught the norovirus.  She was up five time in the night to be sick and a to be smitten with the runs.  She's been sick several times during the day and her only food, a crunchy bar, was thrown up almost immediately.  She still has the runs too, but not quite so bad.   She's drinking apple juice, tea and water and that's it.  She is as grey as a dirty sheet and very sweaty.

I have been scrupulously clean all day, using kitchen towels, bleach and bleachy products for washing up and cleaning, not getting to close to her at all and have doubled my personal hygiene regime.

Am I going to get it though?  Two days for the bastard to mutate again and get me, so tomorrow night/Sunday morning.  Lucky poos will, I think, be inappropriate.

You just might avoid it mate. Sounds like you're doing the right things with infection control. Frequent handwashing is proven to be effective. Be mindful that she will still be infectious for up to 48 hours after the symptoms have passed. Good luck.

monquixote

My boy had it all last week, but me and the wife and daughter all got away with it so you might be lucky.

You need to go full on OCD with the washing.

rlw

That’s more like it chaps

snakemanStoo

Dr. Fraser says

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You're dooooooomed!!!!

FarleyUK

My Mrs had this last weekend. F'ing horrible - caught it on the Thursday, started squirting Saturday morning and then chucking.

Sunday night, I thought I'd got away with it, but nope - 4am call to the bathroom feeling my stomach about to erupt in my mouth... thankfully I managed to keep it down, but felt horrific all day. I actually have a phobia about being sick, so double bleurgh.

Good luck mate!

Teetonetal

Her only food was a crunchie bar? Who thinks a cruchie is a good thing to eat when your sick?

Wife and I had it last Xmas.  It's highly contagious.  My son has spent the last 12 hrs vomiting so I fear we may be going through it again as quite a lot of that vomit has been on us. Beautiful.

ToneControl

 buy a new bucket to put in front of every loo in case you need synchronised ejections

ToneControl

has she been eating mussels?

Phil_aka_Pip

All the handwashing and OCD protection appl;ies, but I wish you well and a speedy recovery for you both

rlw

Teetonetal said:

Her only food was a crunchie bar? Who thinks a cruchie is a good thing to eat when your sick?

Wife and I had it last Xmas.  It's highly contagious.  My son has spent the last 12 hrs vomiting so I fear we may be going through it again as quite a lot of that vomit has been on us. Beautiful.

Crunchy, not Crunchie, so a very bland cereal bar.

GoldenEraGuitars

Hope all passes off without more incident mate. That’s a rough time to have it in the house.

Cleaning is my default mode when my wife is sick. The last time she yelled at me “why do you always have to clean when I’m sick, can’t you just let me be sick?!?!?!”

”Sure. You be sick, I’m off to clean” was the response she got. Stay on top of the hand washing, bedsheet washing and let some air into the house for circulation. At least it’s mild enough to leave a window open for a while 

rlw

The highlight of the holiday is supposed to be seeing family over from Sweden on Boxing Day but as there will be two young kids there we won’t be doing that.
i wonder if Jack Daniels keeps it at bay....

lewism

rlw said:

The highlight of the holiday is supposed to be seeing family over from Sweden on Boxing Day but as there will be two young kids there we won’t be doing that.
i wonder if Jack Daniels keeps it at bay....

I’m the Responsible Person (forget the proper term) for Legionella where I work. We have a technologist from a specialist firm round every couple of months to carry out checks and take samples. My place is pretty low risk but their job requires them to go to cooling towers etc. that are pretty high risk of exposure. One of the technologists told me that whenever he feels himself coming down with flu like symptoms which are the initial signs of Legionnaires disease he drinks half a bottle of Scotch and has never had any problems in 20 something years. I don’t think it was official advice, but there might be something in it......

CloudNine

Have had loads of stomach type things and food poisoning down the years, even had the really nasty e-coli years ago, full week in hospital... But have to say, Norovirus is a bit special in terms of the sheer violence of it, and how contagious it is.

Never had anything else where there was zero time to even move, instant projectile vomiting, completely unstoppable. And it went through every member of the household within a few days, despite my wife's OCD cleaning efforts.

The only saving grace is that it's so short lived. If it lasted a week, I swear it would kill you...

rlw

Still good so far.  mrsrlw eating toast and feeling perkier.

Legionreturns

I used to work at an outdoor center doing residential trips for schools. One child brought it in, and we ended up sending home over a hundred kids and 28 staff. I was one of the few left standing. Make a Milton solution and spray / wipe down everything. And I mean everything. That thing is a bastard!

Sassafras

Could you not get yourself a bio-hazard suit?

strtdv

Last time I had norovirus I stopped it spreading to my wife by washing all the bedding myself, using a separate bathroom which I then cleaned and bleached, and generally living like a leper.
We slept in separate rooms too.

It worked