Stomach Flu

Both my husband and I were bedridden on Christmas Day because we both had stomach flu. It was a nasty experience. His drama started on Christmas Eve when we were having Christmas dinner at our friends' place and he started feeling nauseous. We had to cut short our evening and by midnight, my husband was feeling sick to the stomach, getting cold sweats and chills and shivering. So I called our insurance company nurse hotline and she advised us to get him to the emergency room. So I called our dear friend who drove us to the hospital. There, they ran some tests and hooked him on the IV fluids and anti-nausea medicine. After 3 hours, the doctor said he could go as it was a stomach flu that was going around.
Around that time, I started feeling sick too. By the time we got in bed, I was feeling sick too. And sure enough, started throwing up everything I ate not long after. The worst thing about stomach flu for me is not the throwing up or even the diarrhea, it is the aching of the whole body and feeling too weak to do anything besides laying in bed. So that was pretty much what we both did on Christmas Day and poor Cael couldn't understand why his parents would not play with him or do anything. Mostly we just let him play in our room by himself or watch his DVDs while mom and dad kept coming in and out of consciousness.
That is one sickness I would not care to experience again. I am just very thankful that Cael has not caught it.