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AmbulanceDriver

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Norovirus
« on: January 21, 2025, 12:36:38 AM »
Or at least a norovirus like illness has struck at Casa Driver.

Good news, this was apparently a mild case (and has made me not ever want to see a severe case).

Better news, I somehow seem to have survived unscathed. I'm figuring the OCD levels of handwashing every time I so much as looked at one of the kids (or the Mrs.) helped there. Stayed home from work today because I was fully expecting to lose my "last man standing" status sometime today and didn't want the high speed GI exit to kick off at work. Ended up being a good thing so I could take care of the family.

Still keeping my fingers, toes, and anything else I can think of crossed that I did well and truly dodge it.

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Re: Norovirus
« Reply #1 on: January 21, 2025, 07:35:13 AM »
Well, don't count your chickens. It can take upwards 48 hours after exposure to develop it. But glad to hear that the Mrs. is on the mend.

Fingers crossed that you don't get it, though.

A couple of years ago Sunday night I started feeling ookie. In the middle of the night I was nauseated and crapping my brains out...

And I continued to do that for the next... WEEK.

The worst part was that it kept hitting at night. During the day I'd be OKish GI discharge wise, but the second the sun went down? It was like a vampire virus rising from the dead. One night I was up 8 times to discharge.

I managed to keep ahead of the dehydration... somehow.

I finally decided to go to urgent care after 6 solid days to make sure that something else wasn't going on. They wanted a sample. I provided a sample and they called back and said "it's not enough, we need more!"

Only, there was simply no more to give, literally because that same day the virus decided it had had enough with torturing me and over the next 6 hours I went from feeling god awful to feeling human again.


The symptoms and duration for me point more towards a rotavirus than norovirus.

No matter what, though, I wouldn't wish that week on my worst enemy.

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Re: Norovirus
« Reply #2 on: January 21, 2025, 10:48:25 AM »
It was like dominos at our place.   Started with youngest kiddo, then the oldest about 8 hours later, then the Mrs. 8 hours after that, and then middle got it 8 hours after.   Every time my GI made so much as a slight "burble" I was like, oh crap, here it comes.   Coming up on 60 hours since youngest started showing symptoms, but only 36 hours since middle kid, so still being very cautiously optimistic.   
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