Sick. Really really sick.
I wasn't really feeling too well yesterday morning when I got home, but I didn't really think about it very much, just went on to bed.
Woke up about 10:00 with massive stomach pain and diarrhea... luckily, I hadn't eaten much or I would have been throwing up too.
And it went on and on and on...
Interestingly, although I was having chills and sweating, I didn't have a fever.
For a while there, I thought that dying wouldn't be a bad option. I can only remember feeling that bad once before, when I had the flu back in '77 or somewhere like that. I remember laying on the cold floor in the bathroom wanting to be one with the cold floor...
I've lost ten pounds since yesterday morning... 5% of my body weight. And I feel like it; I have trouble walking without grabbing onto something. Still have the diarrhea, though, but not the cramping. And I really want to drink gallons of cold water, but I can't drink but a few sips.
Anyway, I had to call in sick again... that's twice in the last month. The food poisoning was mild compared to this, though... if I wasn't off, I would have to call in tonight too.
In the last week, I've x-rayed a lot of people with these symptoms. I always wash my hands between patients, especially when I know that they've got GI symptoms... but people will still cough in my face. Not on purpose, although there are those, too.
When you get sick enough, you don't really care if you cough in somebody's face... it just takes too much energy to get your hand up to cover your mouth.
Anyway, I think that I'll go back to bed and sleep some more.
Ah, well, that didn't work... I have, after all, spent the last 24 hours in bed. So I made some hot tea and it seems to be doing OK... I've also eaten some crackers, and I think that I'll go take a shower. I think that just the fact that I know that I need a shower is a good thing...
20:15...
I just got off the phone with brother Dan... I do believe that we're actually gonna start talking (on the phone) on a more regular basis. For years and years we've mostly just done e-mail, but hearing his voice is really nice. Which reminds me, I've got some other relatives that I need to call!
One nice thing about being sick... I think that I'll have done the turn-around correctly... I'll be able to sleep tonight, I'm sure. I've got a lot to do tomorrow, assuming that I'm gonna feel a lot better. First thing is getting brakes on the Subaru, or deciding to have someone else do it... another thing is that I have to go to the hospital and get info on my retirement plan.
More tomorrow... I think that I'm going to bed now.
And a shower did help a lot, although it was a coupla hours from the thought to the action. Movin' kinda slow...