Transplanted: Week 15 - it was going well until I got sick :(

Hi friends, another week has past. Here are some highlights from our week include:

I discovered that a nearby coffee shop has a Cinnamon Roll Latte. Praise the Lord!
We got some good chores done this week including:

An Emission Test done on the car. It is a required test before you can register your car in Colorado.
We got our Colorado License Plate (and learned the hard way that you really should get this done within the first 90 days of moving to Colorado, even if your car is legally registered in IL...) The Colorado DMV got a nice donation from us this week :)
We got a Costco card! I think I will always associate Costco with Korea, but American Costco has some good deals too.
I did our taxes and mailed them in. (It pretty much amounted to me putting zeroes in a lot of spaces, since all the money we earned in Korea was tax-free).

We finally got some spring weather this week! It rained and the grass started to green up.
For a new recipe, we tried this Apple Tortilla Dessert out.
We ate at Chiptole for lunch this week...probably not a highlight for some people, but I like the small joys of life.

And then Saturday happened. Saturday started off as a normal day, but turned into quite the adventure. I don't remember what we did Saturday morning, probably slept in, ate breakfast, and then we picked up trash around the church. Ian went to help one of his friends move. I headed out for my long run. It was a glorious day to run 13 miles. I came home to discover that I had locked myself out of our apartment. :( I called my sister-in-law. She came to the rescue! She let me shower at their place and borrow some clothes. I had to babysit that evening, so she even dropped me off for that.

Shortly after arriving at babysitting, I started feeling queasy. I am not a thrower-uper. I hold it down for as long as I possibly can. But it was not to be. I threw up. And felt better. I thought that would be the end of it (oh the irony!). An hour later, I upchucked, then again 20 minutes later, then again and again. Thankfully I have an amazing husband who came and helped me out with the kiddos, so I could lay on the bathroom floor and empty my stomach every 20 minutes.

When the parents finally got home, my knight-in-shining armor whisked me home in our chariot and I puked into a garbage bag on the way there. We got home and I ended up sleeping on the floor of the bathroom so I could continue to vomit every 30 minutes throughout the night. I think we each got about 2 hours of sleep. Around 6:30 in the morning, it got even better. I started having diarrhea. And then the last straw, I was throwing up and having diarrhea at the same time. I threw in the towel and Ian took me to the ER.

I don't remember a whole lot other than I was dry heaving and they were trying to start my IV at the same time. And I think I told the nurse that she "spoke English very well". Being sick in America is way better than being sick in Korea. I would have survived in Korea, but it was convenient to speak English and be understood. Ian was quite the trooper, he stuck with me the whole time and was so helpful. We were in the ER for about 5 hours. They gave me 3 bags of liquid (I totally could have taken another bag or two, but the nurse, doctor, and Ian said it was time to go home). They also gave me some anti-nausea, Benadryl, and some else I can't remember via the IV. The nurse told us that five other people had come in that morning with the same thing. (And I am not prego, in case you are wondering...I have the stick in the arm, remember?)

"I just assumed there was an actual use for the cup of ice chips they gave me." Anyone else a lover of Gilmore Girls?

Gatorade mixed with Ginger Ale is rocking my world right now. It seems quite pathetic to me that a few days ago I ran for 2 hours and today I get shaky legs whilst brushing my teeth. Oh well, all in good time. If I had a desk job, I would be back at it tomorrow, but running after 3 kids take a lot of energy...so I will probably stay on the couch and focus on getting something more substantial than a Popsicle down.

That was the excitement of our week...how about yours?