Ugh, I feel sick
There were no baby bumble bees involved. [bonus points to anyone - especially guys - who understand that.]
A bug or food allergy or severe PMS symptoms hit me out the blue yesterday. Started around 2pm and got progressively worse throughout the day. I was bizarrely dehydrated while running errands and drank a ton of fluids. By about 5pm, I could hear liquid moving through my intestines - never a good sign. By 9p, I was bascially getting off the toilet just long enough to sit right back down. I kept expecting it to pass - I mean, there are limits to these things. But my body didn't seem to agree. I finally took some ImodiumAD but that took about 2 hrs to kick in. I went to bed with stomach pains and wondering WTF was going on.
I hoped to wake up feeling substantial better but I didn't. Now I had cramping pain that felt scarily like my diverticiulitus attack last winter. I started freaking out.
I cancelled my dentist appt. I called out of work. And I went back to bed.
I had a nightmare about being diagnosed with 21 stage -4 tumors in my intestines - and getting mad because it didn't make sense that they hadn't been found during my Diverticulitus hospital stay. The doctors had left the room, I was crying... and taking a picture to moblog on Vox... when I woke up.
Happily, while still feeling icky, the pain has shifted around and is no longer in the diverticulitus zone. I feel like I have a brick near my stomach - which must where the Imodium is sitting. I'm dehydrated again but at least now it makes sense. I'm freakishly tired. I ate some yoghurt - which felt really good.
I signed out of S Factor tonight (kinda bummed about that - though only because I was trying to go an entire session without missing a class). If I have any energy later, I'll use it to move furniture around for the window install tomorrow: The sofa & cat's chair have to be moved across the living room and I have to figure out somewhere for the dining room chair & table (the kitchen?). A wise woman would also use this as an opp to vacuum the places where the furniture usually sits.
But for now I'm checking email and going back to bed for another nap.
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oh noes! that is awful! I had a couple of bouts like that a few years back. I wouldn't even make it back to the BR (across the hall) and I'd be turning right around again. It's amazing how long these things go on sometimes. Not fun.
I hope you are feeling better & more energetic and everything goes smoothly with the new windows! Yay for new windows!
and Boo for nightmares like that, holy crap!
I figured the nightmare was ABC's fault. That night's programming had a little girl with cancer (Extreme Makeover) and the character from Desperate Housewives going through chemo. One of my doctors was head surgeon from Scrubs - so I probably fell asleep while that rerun was on.
Still, it totally sucked that I was facing it ALL ALONE. And the compulsion to Vox it.. well, I think that's clearly a sign of addiction.
I hope you're feeling better. It sucks having all of that work being done if you're sick.
As for the nightmare - eGADS!
I'd be a nervous wreck for days -- maybe a week.
I'm mostly better today. Managed some food and coffee. Probably not the wisest of moves but I was craving it like a fiend last night, and still this morning, so I thought there might be something to it.
Maybe it was withdrawals due to 8 days without booze! (I decided I've been drinking WAY too often and decided to lay off for awhile.)
Or maybe it was the freaking 8-days (and counting) period (thanks, Depo Provera).
ah -- just try to take it easy.
i doubt you're having alcohol withdrawl
you have to drink a whole heap of a lot for a whole heap of time to get to that stage. this i know: i watched my ex husband go through alcohol induced hallucinations and the DT's. he drank a lot.
cutting back on it and keeping control of it can never be bad but an 8 day period would make me sick. that's for damned sure.
{{{hugs}}}