Knocked out
If you don’t like to read about puke, don’t read beyond this sentence.
No really, I warned you. I know how just reading about it will make people gag.
Anyone remember that episode of “Seinfeld” where Jerry bragged about his vomit-free streak? Classic. It’s too bad there are no clips of it anywhere online, because this would be perfect.
So … this started a week ago when my son randomly got sick. It was his first true throw-up in his 27-plus months of life. And it was gross. It made for a couple of long days as he slowly got better. It was a long week for him though as he recovered from a stomach bug. My wife and I were thankful it hadn’t spread to us.
By Thursday night, though, my stomach was hurting a bit. On Friday, it was worse, but I headed to work anyway. I stayed less than an hour. On my drive home, I had to pull over and stop to leave a present on the side of the road. It was awful. I’m pretty sure I’ve never had to stop to throw up before. It’s as bad as you can image, especially being by myself on the side of a highway with trucks whizzing by at 60 mph.
When I finally got home I stayed in the bed all day. That’s all the details I’ll provide — it’s probably more than you’d like to hear — but it was not a good day. To put it into perspective, I weighed almost 3 pounds less yesterday morning than I did Friday morning. Saturday was so-so — I could at least sit up for more than 10 minutes and I finally ate a little bit that night.
This morning I’m a bit better, but still nowhere near 100 percent. I certainly won’t be running today. I’ll be lucky to get some fresh air for 10 minutes. It’s been a wild few days and I really hope I’m near the end of it. I may take tomorrow off work just to make sure I’m fully recovered. My wife is also not feeling well, but I think she’s managed to miss the worse of it. She is sleeping more than me though.
There’s no worse feeling than not being able to do anything. With other illnesses, there’s always that feeling of being able to do something, even if it’s just walking around. With stomach pain, there’s nothing to do but moan until it finally goes away. Stay healthy out there everyone!
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That was one fabulous tease that got me over here to your upchuck chronicles! So sorry - there is nothing worse than something like this taking over your family, especially when there is a toddler involved who can’t, um, AIM.
Now I feel emboldened to write the flatulence post I have been postponing.
Feel better so you can get back out to your running!!!
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Sorry I laughed at your first sentence!
Glad you’re getting over that, sounds really awful. Take it easy!
Glad to read you are on the road to recovery. My infant got a mild bug two weeks ago that made him go through a lot of diapers. We weren’t sure if it was a bug or teething messing with his tummy until my husband got it and had to miss work a couple of days this past week. I think I have managed to fight it off but was firing at less than 100% yesterday.
A lot of people I know here in the CO Front Range have had all kinds of Exorcist-like bugs lately. It is crappy but once over the hump there is recovery. You’ll be back to running soon.
Similar type of bug hit my house about a week ago - yeah let’s just say I lost a little over 2 lbs! I feel your pain - hope you’re recovery is quick!
That is tough! Feel better.