I ain't dead ... yet...
Jan. 31st, 2009 11:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seticat... but there have been times over the last two days I almost wish so. At least I can give the kids their gooshie-food without wanting to hurl in the sink, that's a step up. But the rest of the body is still in rebellion. Crackers and ginger-ale are staying down okay and the 'explosions' have reduced themselves to rumbles and cramps.
I don't *think* I've eaten any recalled peanut products [... well ... there was that one Reese's Peanut Butter cup a couple of days ago...] and the symptomatology isn't severe enough to be anything truly bad - like salmonella. Been food poisoned once already, thank you kindly. That was around a 7+ on the 'GI Symptoms from Hell' scale. That involved a trip to the ER that lasted around 18 hours, several liters of IV fluids and an interesting fruit-cocktail of meds. This little incident is about a 5 and dropping. I'm thinking just a general viral gastroenteritis since there's never really been a fever spike.
But it still sucks.
I also have to remember to contact VA and email a cancellation of my therapist's appointment [yet again] 'coz there's no way in Hell I'm putting this body in a car and driving for 35-40 minutes on the freeway [time spent driving on a good day]. I can just see me getting stuck in traffic.
All in all, I so seldom get really sick [as in stuck in bed for a few days] it always throws me for a loop when it happens.
[EDIT: For the medical folks in the house, please note: Already lost my appy several years ago, doesn't feel like it usually does when I blow an ovarian cyst [and haven't had one since I slammed face first into menopause several years ago] and it doesn't feel like a gall bag flair. It doesn't feel like a 'surgical belly' - more like a medical one. Just the plain old crud. But I do promise if it doesn't clear itself up by Monday, I'll drag my sorry tush out to 'Sick Call' at VA or to the ER sooner if it gets worse.]
I don't *think* I've eaten any recalled peanut products [... well ... there was that one Reese's Peanut Butter cup a couple of days ago...] and the symptomatology isn't severe enough to be anything truly bad - like salmonella. Been food poisoned once already, thank you kindly. That was around a 7+ on the 'GI Symptoms from Hell' scale. That involved a trip to the ER that lasted around 18 hours, several liters of IV fluids and an interesting fruit-cocktail of meds. This little incident is about a 5 and dropping. I'm thinking just a general viral gastroenteritis since there's never really been a fever spike.
But it still sucks.
I also have to remember to contact VA and email a cancellation of my therapist's appointment [yet again] 'coz there's no way in Hell I'm putting this body in a car and driving for 35-40 minutes on the freeway [time spent driving on a good day]. I can just see me getting stuck in traffic.
All in all, I so seldom get really sick [as in stuck in bed for a few days] it always throws me for a loop when it happens.
[EDIT: For the medical folks in the house, please note: Already lost my appy several years ago, doesn't feel like it usually does when I blow an ovarian cyst [and haven't had one since I slammed face first into menopause several years ago] and it doesn't feel like a gall bag flair. It doesn't feel like a 'surgical belly' - more like a medical one. Just the plain old crud. But I do promise if it doesn't clear itself up by Monday, I'll drag my sorry tush out to 'Sick Call' at VA or to the ER sooner if it gets worse.]
