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Poor Hope, it is not fun getting sick anywhere, but I am sure being out was even worse. All that traveling, and I am sure she was hungry but just her system all thrown off. Glad though that she fell asleep quickly, hoping that she wakes up feeling tons better.
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Oh my gosh, poor little thing! Thank goodness the staff were helpful and Hope fell right to sleep. I can relate to not feeling great after long car or plane rides. Something with sitting so long just messes your body up! I hope to read that she gets better in the morning!!
I feel your pain. On our last Disney cruise, my son who was about Hope's age, sat at the table on the first night and then proceeded to do EXACTLY the same senerio. The only difference, they entire dining room was packed!! Of corse the disney gang was sooo helpful but I was mortified!!!
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As I started reading this update I was all set for the hotel room to be a major disappointment, a problem with your reservation.... something like that. I never expected the disaster that followed-- who would?? Good heavens, what a terrible scene. Poor, sweet Hope apologizing and feeling bad for the other people in the restaurant, and poor you!! I'm so glad I already know you had a great time on the ship because otherwise I'd have been afraid that Hope was really ill and you'd have spent the next day at the local ER! I suppose the good thing is that you were already checked into the hotel and had a room to dash to for clean-up. If this had happened on a road stop it would have been another story!
I'm so glad it ended up being something minor because I don't know what I would have done if she had gotten the flu in another state right before we were supposed to be leaving on a cruise. That would have definitely been a NIGHTMARE.
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Poor Hope, at least you were close to your hotel and able to clean her up quickly. Sean has thrown up a few times in public and we've had to strip him down to his underware before getting him in the car seat to go home. It's not pleasant, but I'm glad after the incident she started perking up and could get some sleep.
I was so grateful for that short walk to the hotel. It was nice to be able to just throw her in a tub instead of going through the whole process of getting her in and out of a car.
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Why yes, now I remember. And I'm so glad it turned out to be just a fluke and nothing more!
Now...slow down! I'm way behind!
You need to hurry and catch up! I'm thinking two updates a day should be good.
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UGH! Not fun at all. I'm the worst with vomit. I have taken to dealing with it for my children's sake, but it is not my cup of tea at all. Of course now Hope has an excuse to not eat "remember mom when you made me finish and I puked?" It's not your fault at all. I have the same issues with Cameron and probably would have done the same thing to him. My guess it was the combination of the snacks in the car and just the traveling in general. Probably threw off her little body a bit.
It's weird. I can deal with vomit...anyone's vomit, but I can't deal with blood, broken bones, needles, or even the thought of needles, blood or broken bones. And I was wondering if she was going to hold this incident over my head, but surprisingly she's forgotten all about it.
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Oh my gosh, poor Hope... poor YOU!! I'm glad that it was just a fluke and all was well after that!
So am I!
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Poor Hope, it is not fun getting sick anywhere, but I am sure being out was even worse. All that traveling, and I am sure she was hungry but just her system all thrown off. Glad though that she fell asleep quickly, hoping that she wakes up feeling tons better.
If it was going to happen, I'm sort of thankful it happened outside of the room instead of in there. Then we would have had to wait for a maid and the room would have stunk. At least this way I could get her away from the entire scene.
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Aww, poor baby! Hope she felt after a good night's sleep.
It was like nothing ever happened.
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Ooh, poor Hope. I'm glad she was feeling better in the morning.
So was I! I was so nervous when I woke her up.
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Poor Hope. I hope she was better in the morning.
A good night's sleep works wonders sometimes.
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Oh poor Hope! I do hope she was fine after a good nights sleep.
She was back to her old self.
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Oh my gosh, poor little thing! Thank goodness the staff were helpful and Hope fell right to sleep. I can relate to not feeling great after long car or plane rides. Something with sitting so long just messes your body up! I hope to read that she gets better in the morning!!
I've never had a problem myself, and she's been really good with our other road trips, but they were never this long. I made sure not to make the same mistakes when we drove back home.
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Poor Hope!! Not the way you want to end the day. I hope after a good night's sleep she is feeling better in the morning!
It definitely wasn't a good ending, but thankfully that was pretty much our only road bump.
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Poor Hope, and poor YOU! Glad the restaurant staff were so understanding. That at least made a bad situation a little better.
The staff was outstanding. I couldn't have asked for a better waitress.
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Checking in here! I thought I had so much to read and was waiting until I had time to read all at once. But here I am a short time later.
Awe, poor little Hope, that must have been awful. Hoping she wakes up feeling much, much better.
Hey there! I'm trying to take my time with the updates so that slow-poke (Kelly) can catch up to me. Otherwise I'm going to have to hear about it every time I post a new update .
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Just joining in . Poor Hope and poor Mom!!
Thanks for following along!
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Originally Posted by DilBrooksmom
Poor Kid! It's so hard when something like that happens. So happy to hear that everyone was so understanding!
Hopefully it just gets better from then on out!
I'm sure this won't be the last time something like this happens. At least I know now that I'll be able to handle it.
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I feel your pain. On our last Disney cruise, my son who was about Hope's age, sat at the table on the first night and then proceeded to do EXACTLY the same senerio. The only difference, they entire dining room was packed!! Of corse the disney gang was sooo helpful but I was mortified!!!
That's awful! I'm sure they deal with that stuff all the time, but it's still one of those moments you'd rather forget.
Aww, poor Hope! It's never fun to get sick, but to have it happen like that is that much worse. Hooray for an understanding and sympathetic staff at the Cracker Barrel!
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