Violently ill.
I’m back from the hill country, but not back to normal. I got sick Saturday afternoon a couple of hours after lunch. I initially thought it was food poisoning due to the wrenching pains in my abdomen (like I was being knifed) and poo the consistency of water. I’ve had food poisoning before and it was a similar sensation, but I wasn’t doing the technicolor yawn this time. By late afternoon, I was shivering in the hot sun and tried to lay down. I bundled up in winter clothes and stayed under layers of down comforter… all the while freezing my ass off. I didn’t sleep a wink. It was all I could do to force down as much water as possible to stay hydrated. By Sunday morning, I didn’t have the strength to hold the wheel of my truck (and I have power steering), so I had to ask Ed to drive the nearly 5 hours back to Houston. I was drinking Gatorade and chewing any OTC drugs I could find to get me home, but I was in excruciating discomfort. Last night, my fever was 102 degrees most of the night again. It broke around 4 this morning, but I’m not getting excited because it had dropped below a 100 degrees for a few hours on Saturday night only to spike back up again. I had to get out of bed this morning because my body ached and head was pounding so hard, I couldn’t suffer the laying. My skin is super sensitive, my bones, joints, and muscles ache. So here I am, going into the third calendar day of this crud and only feeling marginally better. I need rest. I’ll tell you about the trip later.
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I hope you’re much better this morning. If not then it’s definitely visit the doc time, especially with a fever running that high. They can at least prescribe something to help ease the many areas of discomfort. Ask for morphine, I bet that’d help. J/K! :) Seriously, take care of yourself and let me if you need anything.
Egads! that sounds terrible. Hope you’re feeling better soon!
Have you tried Theraflu? I swear the hot lemon works the best for flu, which is what it sounds like you have. For me, it took the aches and headache away and put me to sleep for at least 4 hours.
Yeah, sounds like stomach flu though I always got the version where I threw up a lot. All the other symptoms sound flu-like. The skin sensitivity is one that always gets me, where even soft cotton clothes hurt to have on.
I think this is the part on HOUSE where someone mentions “parasites” and you go off to get an MRI and spinal tap.
Ughhh… hope you feel better soon, that sounds awful!
If I think about it too long I get a tiny bit freaked out about germ theory and the way that some things just seem to be so monumental in their approach anymore. Then this squidgy little panicky voice in my head starts twitching and shouting, “OMG, OM-really-FG, WHAT WILL THE FLU LOOK LIKE IN TEN YEARS’ TIME??!? Auuuuugggghhhh....” Thus, my Live-In-The-Moment theory.
Sending you recovery mojo so that you are bean-mashin’ as quick as possible.
Hey, how are you feeling about a ‘day-after’ (’day-of’??) spa day? I’m leaning in that direction, I think. You can be all manly and shit the night prior and then dance out your metrosexual to speed recovery. Win-win.
Yeah, I’m still pretty fucked up.
I’m down for a spa day anytime… I lurv that stuff.
I have this theory about how we got where we are… maybe I’m completely off base, but I blame pansy ass parenting and pharmaceutical company greed. Basically, back in the day, kids played in the dirt. Kids would pick up penny’s off the parking lot asphalt and stick em in their mouths and suck on them… kids would expose themselves to germy shit from the moment they could crawl and their immune systems developed accordingly.
Now, we live in a land of effective bubble-kids with anticeptic lotion, antibacterial hand soap, parents shitting a golden brick if their precious vulnerable creation gets a speck of soil under his/her nails… top all that with everyone and their dog instantly chugging antibiotics the second a sniffle rolls around resulting in two guaranteed effects: 1) your body doesn’t need to work to talk care of itself because the drugs are supplementing the effort, thus weakening your long term resistance to infection… and 2)forcing the virus or bacteria to learn to fight antibodies that it wouldn’t normally be up against hence making it more resistant to anything but more (purchased) antibiotics (this is great for the drug business).
It all sickens me.
So, I’m fighting it out as a childhood Tonka truck in the dirt player with pennies in my mouth. You want to know how many friends called, emailed, or texted me with the equivalent of “go see a doctor and get antibiotics” within the first 2 days? I want to say 100% only because I don’t remember one that didn’t mention it, but it was almost 100%. Unreal.
I’m floored by how many people see no problem with what this is doing to our species from an evolutionary standpoint.
...or, maybe I’m just being dramatic.
Nope, I see no drama here, pal.
I can count the times on one hand that my children have been to a medical doctor for anything that isn’t accident-related. AND, had I known then what I know now, I doubt seriously that I’d have ever gotten my children immunized. Especially in light of the boys’ TS diagnoses.
I had a doctor offer me antibiotics one time for my oldest and I said, “What for?? You just said it was viral. Antiobiotics are ineffectual.” To paraphrase, he basically told me that he is so used to parents heckling him (in their ignorance) for a round of them that he just automatically offers them anymore. I asked him, in essence, what about educating them and he said that within a couple of years of practicing, he got tired of fighting it and just gave up.
Don’t even get me started (!) on overprescribing and unnecessary procedure. It could get all ugly up in here.
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