sick

[dragonlady7]

whuh? ok, they've been messing with the update thingy again. bah!

I am sick. I am sick like a very sick thing. I had a lovely dinner with kkattowll and then suddenly i didn't feel so good, and I drove home and bailed out of the car and was sick all over my parents' lawn. I went inside and got me a sickie bucket and lay in bed all night without sleeping at all, leaning over to throw up every 45 minutes or so. That was a great night. I was so cold, so very cold, and my stomach hurt so much, and nothing would come up but my body insisted on trying. I couldn't even keep water down. It was awful. I haven't had a night like that in a very long time.
And I thought of going down the hall and crying to Mom and Dad, but I figured I'm at least 20 years too old for that, so I didn't. Bless his heart, Dad said I should've woken him. I don't know what good it would have done. But I do feel better to have had the option.
Fortunately Roon-the-cat came to visit me and sat on me for a while in his ineffable Roonie way, just around 4:30 am when I was starting to feel really sorry for myself. Roon usually makes things better. So I snuggled with him a while, and got up at 5:30 when Mom got up, and we decided I should not try to catch the train as it was likely to be an unpleasant experience at best. So I spent the day horizontal and unconscious in various parts of the house with various numbers of cats. Even Ghost was unafraid of me-- she could see that I was completely incapable of eating her, so she harassed poor Snick with impunity while I lay draped partly over the arm of the chair telling Snick to be nice. (She thinks Snick's tail is the Best Toy Ever. Snick disagrees, but doesn't stop lashing it. The more she plays with it, the more he gets annoyed; the more annoyed he is, the harder he lashes his tail. Which, I mean, whee! More fun to play with! He's not coping well.)

Around 6 pm today it occurred to Dad to take my temperature. We'd been thinking it was food poisoning, but shouldn't that have eased now that whatever disagreed with me has been forcibly evacuated? I had a fever of 101, so Dad got me some ibuprofin. After taking it, the general aches and pains that had been crippling me all day seem to have eased. Around 8 I started sweating and feeling hyper. I'm still a little unusually perky. I have just succeeded in eating half a bowl of homemade applesauce.
So I have no idea what the hell is wrong with me or if it's wrong anymore or what. But I'm going to try to go to bed soon, and I will try to catch a train home tomorrow. I'll probably live, right?

I wonder whether this is somehow a follow-up of the Killer Headache of Doom that almost prevented me from coming home in the first place, on Monday?

Hm-- the new Update thing seems to be The Same Thing Only Rearranged So You Can't Find Anything. Is that supposed to be Progress? I am such a fogey.

Er, I might go lose that applesauce now. Dammit! It was good! I was so enjoying having a gastronomic system... bugger.

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[(Anonymous)]

Had the same thing last monday. One of the worst days I can remember in a long time. Mine lasted about 12-20 hours, I hope you feel better soon.

KW

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

My uncle had it too... in Troy... on Wednesday. I didn't actually see him at all, nor have I had any physical contact with him in several months, so I've no idea how we got the same thing at the same time, but... who knows?

[kkatowll.livejournal.com]

Damn, I'm so sorry to hear you're sick...It must've been the yogurt drink, I think. I don't quite know how yogurt could have poisoned you, but food poisoning is supposed to hit 3-4 hours after you eat, and if you figure we met there at maybe 6:20 and parted at 10:30 when you were feeling ill, that's the right timeframe. And I'm not sick, but see, I skipped the strange drink.

A friend from work missed an entire week (burning her whole year's sick time) because of food poisoning; she got so dehydrated that she eventually had to go to the hospital and they gave her an IV. So be careful and get well!!!

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

I don't know if it was food poisoning-- Mom is skeptical. I brought home my leftovers and put them in a fridge with an announcement that if anyone wants to make an endeavor for Science, they should eat it and monitor themselves for symptoms.

Throughout the whole thing I remember thinking that i had to try not to become too dehydrated, so I kept drinking water. It made me throw up again, so I took to holding mouthfuls of water for fifteen minutes at a time and letting them trickle down my throat so I'd feel like I was drinking. I don't think I ever got really dehydrated, though, but I was really proud of myself when I managed to be hydrated enough to go pee. It's the little things that get us through, right?

If it was food poisoning, it wasn't bad. I'm a little logy today but not really any different from yesterday. So it was basically a 24-hour thing, and I didn't actually throw up at all after the first 12 hours, so really I got off easy. it might have just been a stomach bug, maybe related to the Headache From Hell I had on Sunday.
But it also might have been the yogurt drink, so I guess I'll steer clear of that stuff in future. (Dad had it last time he was there and said it was OK but he likes the lassi they serve at Indian restaurants much better.)

[kkatowll.livejournal.com]

mm. Well, I must admit if you were basically well (in the non-throwing-up sense) after 12 hours, it doesn't sound like food poisoning. Perhaps I'm a virulent but short-lived plague masquerading as a human and you got away before I could thoroughly kill you.

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

> virulent but short-lived plague

Bwahaha.
I guess it's a good thing I escaped.


Yes, it seems I'm not poisoned anymore, so it was probably just a 24-hr bug, with a particular penchant for Turkish food.