On the mend
Mar. 10th, 2011 09:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccastareyesFor those of you who follow me on FB or Twitter, you might have noticed that I had the stomach flu yesterday, hence my Disappearance from the Internet.
I don't know if I left the fish I had for dinner out for too long, or if it was one of those random things. But I was already feeling it Tuesday night, when I got the 'I feel hungry, but nothing tastes good' reflex. Around midnight, I wake up and start throwing up. As well as a bad case of diarrhea. At the same time.
This is the first time I've had stomach flu since I've left home -- the last case I had was on vacation right before my freshman year of college. I tell you, it really makes you appreciate having someone else around to clean up the mess a sick person makes.
Anyway, after my body very efficiently and messily removed everything from my digestive tract, I got to spend most of yesterday asleep on the couch. Originally with the hope I could watch TV while I had a fever and was trying to recover. Turned out I just wanted to sleep it off.
The fever's gone, today, but I still have very little appetite -- seriously, yesterday I ate a cup of rice and two carrots, and today I had maybe half a cup of cereal before I was like 'nope, done' -- so it might be a 'stay home and recover' day too.
I don't know if I left the fish I had for dinner out for too long, or if it was one of those random things. But I was already feeling it Tuesday night, when I got the 'I feel hungry, but nothing tastes good' reflex. Around midnight, I wake up and start throwing up. As well as a bad case of diarrhea. At the same time.
This is the first time I've had stomach flu since I've left home -- the last case I had was on vacation right before my freshman year of college. I tell you, it really makes you appreciate having someone else around to clean up the mess a sick person makes.
Anyway, after my body very efficiently and messily removed everything from my digestive tract, I got to spend most of yesterday asleep on the couch. Originally with the hope I could watch TV while I had a fever and was trying to recover. Turned out I just wanted to sleep it off.
The fever's gone, today, but I still have very little appetite -- seriously, yesterday I ate a cup of rice and two carrots, and today I had maybe half a cup of cereal before I was like 'nope, done' -- so it might be a 'stay home and recover' day too.
