Puke and other fun stuff

So there is nothing like walking into your child's room to check on them before you go to bed and immediately smelling something off. At first when I looked for the throw up I did not see it since the room was dark and she had kind of pulled the covers up over it. I assumed that maybe she had a really bad poop in her diaper. No such luck! Upon closer inspection there was puke everywhere. Apparently she threw up the last two weeks worth of stomach content, ok so that is a slight exaggeration but there was a lot. I am not even sure how all of that food was still in there and not digested at this point. So we gave her a bath and changed all of the sheets while airing out her room a bit. She seems happy and doesn't seem sick, which is good since this is her week of school for this month of the summer.

She has done this a time or two before where she has just thrown up but was not sick prior to it or after it. I am hoping that is the case this time as well since we do not have a babysitter tomorrow and if she can't go to school I have to take another day off of work. I had finally saved up a pretty good chunk of PTO time at work but with several appointments coming up in the next two weeks and our vacation next week I can pretty much say adios to that.

It would be so nice to just once take off work and actually do something that I enjoy but I am too scared to do that since I am always trying to save up my time for the numerous appointments my kids have throughout the year. I can totally understand how a lot of parents of special needs children cannot work, every other week I am having to take time off. I have been very lucky in that I work from home and that my boss has been very flexible when it comes to appointments and such.

 So now here I sit, waiting on the first load of bedding to get done in the washer so I can put in the second load. I do not want to let it sit overnight with the puke on it since the smell is pretty bad. Luckily there was a mattress pad on her bed since the puked soaked right through the sheets. I doubt I would ever be able to get that smell out of her mattress.

I am also really hoping that Elizabeth goes back to sleep. She is not the best sleeper and typically wakes up over night probably about 1/3 of the time and will not go back to sleep for hours. After getting pulled out of bed and given a middle of the night bath I will be amazed if she falls back asleep.

Anyway that is how my night is going, I hope you are having a better one.