Ok so not really but it sure should be! My wonderful holiday weekend was totally ruined by the FLU. No, not H1N1. I got the good old fashioned gastrointestinal flu.
It hit about an hour after I got home on Friday [thank goodness it waited until I got home!] and from then on it was pretty much the couch or bathroom for me all weekend! On Saturday I wasn’t throwing up anymore but my tummy still felt gross so I still couldn’t eat. Friday and Saturday I hurt absolutely everywhere and found it hard to sleep more than a couple hours at a time. I finally tried a piece of toast Sunday morning after not eating since lunch on Friday and it stayed down and in so I was deemed “well” by mom and allowed to go to the family “Happy ThanksMas” [so named because we were technically celebrating Christmas but it was the day after Halloween and we had to fit Thanksgiving in there somewhere]. So I attended the festivities and ate more than my tummy thought appropriate and felt not so hot by the time we left. When I got home I went straight to bed again. [yup, that’s my exciting weekend for ya!]
I must say that I fared far better than my aunt and friend Christy who DO have H1N1 – both have come down with pneumonia as a result of that particularly nasty bug! I’m praying that they both get better soon!
Upside of this weekend, on Friday morning I was down 6lbs from my stupid hypo/cancer weight gain… now I'm down a total of 12lbs! I’m sure that will come back on as soon as I can get rehydrated but I will enjoy it while it lasts! ;o)
Oh, sweetie. I had the stomach flu two Decembers in a row...during exam week!!! The first year, I thought I was just reacting to an antibiotic I was taking so I didn't stop eating...then I couldn't keep a popsicle down and ended up in the ER for fluids.
ReplyDeleteI can't imagine going through that on top of what your poor body is already dealing with. I'm still praying for you!!! Love and hugs.