....is very colourful, very tiring and leaves you ravenously hungry.
At 1 a.m. on Friday I wake up wondering why I'm awake. Stomach is boiling and roiling. Decide I want a smoke and a cuppa. Get out of bed and notice that the temperature in the house is hovering below 6C.
Boy did I projectile or what. Cleaned up, make a cup of mint tea, had a smoke, repeat all this at 2 am and 3 am. House temperature now below freezing - put the heating back on, repeat the above at 5 am.
I'm definitely dying / got stomach cancer / salmonella flare up / ate a dodgy mussel / got appendicitis / won't see sunrise.
got about 3 hours sleep, then at 8 am, the squitters started, but the puking had stopped. Every time I drank anything, it went through like brown windsor within 15 minutes. Spent the best part of the day either in bed or on the toilet.
By 9 last night it was as if it hadn't happened, but I was as weak as a kitten, grey as a blanket, stank like a dockers armpit and hungry as a wolf.
Was scared to eat solids so had soup and bread at 9, then cereal and milk at 9:30, then beef stew at 10. Hey, I'm OK, I'm not dying after all! Shower and back in bed by 11pm, woke at 5:30. smoke and coffee and all OK.
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whew...God I'm glad you handled that for me also. Soooo grateful. Sorry I couldn't carry part of the load offa your back Bill; terrible!! Was it just a period bug or is it something else? I'm now overjoyed that my body has been in good shape for a long time...It's my minds that has needed that cuppa tea more often. Don't want to even envision it puking from anywhere. Continue to take good care of yourself.
PS. We got down to 61F the other night. I don't even think in numbers you've been having.
I just realized I havent puked in um...15 months or so....I got so used to dry heaves it was like nothing for me. Routine was wake up...try and brush my teeth and that would usually trigger the dry heaves. If it didn't, the first cigarette of the morning usually would so I would do it just to get the dry heaves out of the way so I could get dressed and go to work still half drunk and with a pounding headache. Your post reminds me of this insanity, but also to be grateful if I ever get sick just for a day that it is not from drinking any more and I don't do it to myself almost daily. Glad you are feeling better Bill. By the way, the speaker at my last Tuesday night meeting was from Scotland. It was really interesting hearing her speak. She talked about how her drinking got worse after she got "chucked" in a relationship. Everyone was like "what.?" The chair person, also from Scotland had to clarify that meant getting dumped. The person now lives in Liverpool which made me think of Daniella too. She was 17 years sober...had a great message. Peace out. Stay warm!
Mark
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thats the most colorful description of "stomach flu" or more accurately "a touch of food poisoning" ive ever seen! you definately have a flair for writing! glad you're feeling better :)
Mind yourself, thats a bad dose. A pint of water with a teaspoon of salt and a teaspoon of sugar is very good to get your equilibrium back with this type of dose.
There was a great sense of relief that all this wasn't self inflicted but my head did take a trip to another planet - being sick when you live alone is no fun at all.
did the warm water and sugar and salt solution a couple of times (although it was a dessertspoon of sugar to a teaspoon of salt) until I could get some Diuralite (the medical version of this remedy), I used to work in a steelworks some years ago, we got issued with a pint of diuralite very 2 hours to replace the salts we lost through sweat, but we also got a pint of beer to wash it down.
Anyway the central heating is now playing up, the pump keeps sticking so I keep tapping it with a hammer to get it re started, left a message for the landlady, she'll get it sorted next week, so I've got a coal fire roaring up the chimney and have put a camp bed and sleeping bag in the lounge.
The D&V seems to be all cleared up now, back on solids and everything works OK. Thanks for all the support.
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Biker, love your regional and colorful descriptions, even of the most sickening and pitiful events!! Sounds like you had a real go! So glad you are feeling better.
Biker, I too am starving from lack of sustinence, and an occasional bout with the toilet, but head pointed at bowl instead of butt. This has been going for 2 months!! Wish me a prayer if you would, see a new GI doctor on Tuesday as I have fired my old one.
Enjoy a big fat greasey meal for me, as soon as you can, or at least a big hunk of red meat, mid-rare, and loads of overly-buttered corn!! (whimper...)
I get to make my husband steak tips and fresh sauteed mushrooms over toast points with au jus drizzled over the top tonight.... NOT FAIR!! But he deserves it, and I WILL try one small teensy bite, before I eat my plain egg noodles and a banana. garumph.
((((hugs)))) x joni x
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