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- From: dsegelho@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Diane Segelhorst)
- Newsgroups: misc.kids
- Subject: Re: Sign of the times
- Message-ID: <28952@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 11:39:33 GMT
- References: <1992Dec14.185813.22839@cbnewse.cb.att.com> <1992Dec17.181151.5123@informix.com>
- Reply-To: dsegelho@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Diane Segelhorst)
- Distribution: usa
- Organization: Annapolis Detachment, CDNSWC
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- In misc.kids, cathl@odin (Catherine Lyman) writes:
- >
- >I have to admit, my husband can't handle it when the kids throw up.
- >Everything else he pretty much takes in stride. I guess I'm bragging
- >a bit!
-
- It's a funny thing, what you can stand. Before I had kids, I was the
- terribly squeamish type. If anyone else vomited anywhere near me, I
- was bound to do the same :-(. In fact that was one of my big worries
- about having kids - how could I stand to clean up after them when they
- were sick, without getting sick myself? (I was worried about gagging
- when I changed poopy diapers too.)
-
- We all had the stomach flu a few weeks ago. My son got it first, and
- came down with it in the car while we were driving home from daycare
- :-( :-( :-(. He vomited ALL OVER the inside of the car. We were on
- a busy road, in the dark on a rainy night. There was NO WAY I could
- stop the car and go around to him. So I just kept on driving, reaching
- my hand back to his knee to pat it and try to calm him by saying "It's
- okay, you'll be alright" etc, etc. When we got home I carried him in,
- stripped off his vomit covered clothes, bathed him, etc, etc. all without
- even thinking of gagging myself. But when I went back out to the car,
- I gagged just opening the door. When I picked up the pile of his clothes
- from the garage floor, I gagged. My husband had to clean up the car,
- because I just couldn't do it. (Vomit was everywhere, on the dash,
- on the windshield (and he was in the back seat!), the floor, the back
- of my sweater, ...)
-
- All through the night, I held my son and the basin while he threw up,
- cleaned up afterwards, with no problem. However, when my husband got
- it, I couldn't clean up the mess because I started to gag, and almost
- lost it myself.
-
- Has anyone else got this "selective" queasy stomach?
-
- Diane Segelhorst
- dsegelho@oasys.dt.navy.mil
- Mom to Brad, 2.5 years, and Carrie, 6 months
-