Originally Posted by Partystar

Well we're back in the States from our 6 week 'holiday' in England. It didn't turn out to be much of a holiday, we spent 5 of those weeks, as sick as dogs. I felt I was getting ill a few days before we left here, but hoped it would go away. Well it didn't & after the plane trip it just got worse, I felt like crap & soon my chest was so bad I was coughing up blood from the constant coughing! My Mum flew back from the states (a different state) & arrived a few hours before we did, she was sick too.

So eventually we were all sick in the house, I had to have one lot of antibiotics to get rid of mine & Mum had 3 lots & steroids to get rid of hers. We thought Tyler had got away with it, but nope, he got so sick I had to take him to hospital. They admitted him for 24 hours, we went home as we thought he'd be better off there. We were only round the corner & had 'open access' should we need to rush him back round.

It turns out we all had virus' (probably 2 different kinds as we caught them from different parts), then chest infections, but Tyler being a toddler, he took it much worse. His temp was at 41.4 for days, after a few days, I was unable to get it down, so that's when we took him to A&E. He was not getting enough oxygen & the high temp was causing him to shake, his eyes were rolling, he was panting, coughing, throwing up, it was horrible to see him like that.

He finally got better a week before we came home, so we got to enjoy a week of our 6 week holiday. It would have been great if we weren't so ill, but there's not much we could have done about that. Sorry to babble!

I'm not glad to be back, hopefully the homesickness will fade soon. How is everyone, what did I miss?

Originally Posted by Thydney

I'll alert the media

Originally Posted by Sally

Hiya, what bad luck for you, glad to hear you're all feeling better now.

There have been a few new faces

Originally Posted by Dogbyte

Thats good, 'other' immigrants/visitors bringing their diseases back to the UK.....Glad your much better.... Thank goodness for OUR nurses !! (That's got brownie points from the wife).!!!

Originally Posted by britvic

Sorry to hear all that, so did you not get to do what was your main reason for going over there in the first place "work".

Originally Posted by Lord Knows

So sorry to hear of your hardship, the difficulty with the little could put a scare into you. I must say your chest appears to have recovered nicely.

Originally Posted by Silly Sod

But, other than that, how was it? hyuck hyuck

Originally Posted by Patrick Hasler

Welcome back ..... So why the absence ? don't they have the internet in England anymore ?

Originally Posted by Partystar

The end of the holiday was great, lovely weather, fantastic friends, family, food & places!!! Oh & I managed to squeeze in a trip to Alton Towers, it was so much fun!!!

Originally Posted by evoal2003

Alton Towers is always a blast, living in Staffs it wasn't far away. I remember the last time I went 4 well beefed up guys in my company car a new VW Beetle.....how cute we were.

Nice to see ya back, sorry the trip wasn't all that. Make sure you send payments back to the NHS for all your treament

See you soon

Alan