The headaches and stomach pain started just a few minutes from our destination. We talked about turning around but, as we'd been driving over an hour, it only seemed fair to Jersey to let her run around for a few minutes at least. Jersey did have a great time, as did Jessica, and we even got some lovely photos and video despite the fact that the sky had turned grey and the weather quite cold. Increasingly sore, we walked back to the car after about 30 minutes, then headed off home. That's when the vomiting started.
The trip home took two-and-a-half hours, with all of us physically ill at different intervals (we stopped at least 6 or 7 times). Mum & Bec then selflessly came to our house to help us, since we were in no state to look after Jessica properly. We spent 4 hours in Hospital - 3 of those hours waiting to be seen. Jessica & Mel continued to vomit well into the evening (12 times for Jessica in fact), and were both in a really bad way. To add to the misery, we then managed to give the bug to Mum who spent Wednesday in all sorts of pain, thanks to her caring for us from Monday night through Tuesday night (again, we're SO sorry Mum - and so very thankful).
So I don't think I could say it was a brilliant day at the seaside. On the bright side, though, we did capture some nice footage! I put some of the clips together in the wee hours of Saturday morning - about 3:30am - and have posted a very low-quality version below. I haven't posted to YouTube before so I don't know how/if the quality can be improved (it'll likely be on the Family Album though).
The song is called "Home", and it's by Phil Wickham, from his beautiful new album "Cannons". You can buy it here, and/or you can find a lot of Phil's own clips on YouTube by starting here.
7 comments:
eesh...gastro? (i'm guessing it was gastro) Sucks big time. I hope all is well now and you rnext trip to the beach is more fun. Check out my page in the next few days for my latest beach trip!
J :@)
Thanks for the footage of Jessica - it's a good while since we saw her running about - she's really cute! It was also lovely to see Cape Patterson and be reminded of the day we spent down there with you - (in FEB of this year!)
Hope you are all feeling much better by now. Mo thinks it was some of that cheese which you like so much!
Did Bec manage to avoid becoming ill?
Great to hear from you, Dad.
Thanks for your comments, guys. Yes we are all finally well thankyou - and no, Bec didn't succumb to our bug. May be a little while until Mel feels like a drive down to the Cape again though (and no, I don't think it was cheese-related this time).
THat video almost mad me cry! I'm not going to start crying at work! Really Really beautiful... I loved it.
I'm so glad you're all feeling so much better!
I love that i spell so well when I'm in a hurry...
Glad you liked it, Bec! I can't take much credit for it: it's just a lovely combination of beautiful subject matter and a beautiful piece of music. I just combined one with the other!
Still feeling well? Didn't miss any work?
Matty
Yeah I'm good! Tired but good! haven't missed any work, but I'm being given Friday off cos I worked on Sat for the conference so that's nice!
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