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It’s been one of those weeks.  What is it with these stomach bugs?  Why do they have to be so strong and knock out the entire family one by one?  Why is there nothing yet in our modern medicine defenses that can take one of these bugs and pummel into the ground before it strikes an entire household? 

It started off last week with the youngest member of the family.  He probably caught it the same way all small kids do – sharing who-knows-what with his friends at school whilst on this treasure hunt they all went on together!  The bug took him out of school for a few days, and then we returned to some semblance of normality (once all the additional laundry that this bug created was taken care of) for all of two days before it was my turn.  Within a day my partner was also down with it – we probably caught it from our adored youngest child, one of us from cleaning him up, and the other from cleaning his bedding and clothes!  We were just pulling ourselves together and enjoying the first decent night’s sleep without stomach cramps in a few days when we heard it strike our firstborn.  Not as heroic, or independent, as his younger brother, the bug turned firstborn into a drama queen for 24 hours until it ran out of steam – or became bored with our son’s desperate attempts to convince us he was dying from this bug that had already passed through the rest of us without permanent damage. 

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Today everyone is more or less healthy again, and as there’s no more humans in the house, hopefully the stomach bug will have packed its bags and left to make another home a misery for a week or so.  Unless of course it realizes that it missed the cat and comes back to create a little bit more worry and mess!