Premieres are an important part of our lifes and we are all excited when things happen the first time, but there are though certain things which we are not so keen on and ideally want them never to happen at all. Sunday afternoon, once Heidi and Sandra headed back towards Vorarlberg the three of us went in nice, yet cold weather on an extensive walk through the Prater and the 3rd district with Jakob sleeping very well in his Bugaboo and the later afternoon was also still very ok. We played a lot, had fun and the bath in the evning together with Markus was fun as always. When bedtime has arrived we have had no hints yet what could expect us and even when Jakob woke up around 2200 as he was spitting and lying on wet betclothes we were still not thinking anything bad. A bit more than an hour later though we realised that something was not normal at all, as he was throwing up in bed and all the milk he had in the evening was spread all over the bed. What followed was several cloth-changes and several times of throwing up and so we decided to go to hospital and have him checked in the emergency room.
We showed up at the Rudolfstiftung, a hospital nearby which can be even seen from our terrace, at 0230 and before adn during the check up Jakob was throwing up again. What fascinated us as well as the doctors was though that he was smiling and full of energy, even though he was really suffering. In order to prevent Jakob from de-hydration Jakob registered his first stay in hospital at the age of 17 weeks. While Kerstin stayed with our little one Markus went home at 0530, gort ready for work and brought some toys and clothes into the hopsital on the way to the office. Jakob was in the meantime supplied with an intravenous drip which meant that he could not be caried very far – his radius of movement was ca 1,5m.
In fairly good mood given the circumstances
When the infusion was taken away on Tuesday morning Jakob seemed to be well but anorectic. Towards the end of the day though Kerstin felt more and more bad and so she started throwing up in the evening as well. Markus got a special permission to stay in hospital and take care of Jakob in all matters apart from feeding, but unfortunately also he started throwing up by 0330 in the morning. So in the end all thre of us got a viral infection with the norovirus which means that we are currently highly infectious. Markus’ brother Stefan helped a lot on Wednesday taking care of Jakob & Kerstin at the hospital, bringing them home, shopping for us and cooking a delicious chicke-soup. Luckily we all, somehow still toxic assets, are feeling much better by now and are clearly on the road of improvement, have disinfected our flat and hope we haven’t handed over the virus to other people, especially Stefan.
Jakob, Kerstin & Markus
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