Turns out that the night before you leave on a trans-atlantic flight that you should not eat a big meal that could mess with your stomach. Which is what happened with us, well to Spencer. The poor little boy got sick in the middle of the night and just couldn't stop "being sick" all night. We were leaving the next day at noon, and were not sure yet if he would be over the stomach bug or not, so we waited. He had stopped throwing up, but still had not had much sleep, and looked very much like this picture. (so sad, right?)
He had gone for 3 hours without any type of being sick, so we headed to the airport to see if things would just be able to work out. I mean, we had a 17 hour flight during the night, so at least he could sleep through all of that right? Well we start getting all luggage and us out of the car, and Spencer starts saying his arms and legs hurt and he starts crying which in turn makes him throw up in the parking lot of the airport.
Yep to the right of this picture that is where we were. Luckily it was mostly water, so it wasn't gross. But he did that, Tyler and I looked at each other and said, yep we are not going today. So I repacked the car, Tyler went inside to change our tickets and we started our way back home. Before all of this I was so nervous about flying, and felt so bad for Spencer to have to travel for 29 hours while being sick. He just wanted to sleep and lay down. I was a mess also because I was so sad to be leaving everyone here.
We said good-bye to our flight and went back home and Spencer just headed straight to his bed and laid down to watch some Avatar the Last Airbender.
The blessing out of all of this is?? First, I'm really happy that we didn't try to travel while he was sick, it would have been miserable for me and him. Secondly, I feel that I'm more ready to leave when we do now. It gave us a little extra time with Tyler, and to just be ready to leave. I really didn't feel ready to leave when we were going to. So, now, we have had a night of 12 hours of sleep, and Spencer is slowing getting better. At least he is eating some bread!!! I hope he feels 100% for our next trip, so we can finally get our summer in the States underway. He can't wait either now.
It seems as though Zimbabwe had one more adventure for us to go through before we left...now I think we're done. :)
5 comments:
dang, that is crazy! i just hope he is close to 100% by the weekend. i'm sure the past four years have been a paradox - some days must've gone so slow, but here you are now, leaving so quickly! wishing a good flight for you and getting excited to have you on the east coast, auntie becca!!! :)
Amen! Lets be done! And, I love the sick kid picture. So sad, and humorous at the same time :(
Glad Spencer is feeling better and I'm glad you feel more ready to leave!
Tell Spencer's stomach to get with the program! We're all getting anxious to see you again here in the states (especially Utah)! See ya soon!
Poor little guy! I'm also glad you got to go back home and rest! Rading that makes me want to go back to bed too. ;) Will we see you while you're in Utah!
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