Getting better

[cjsmith]

Today I've had two huge mugs of herbal tea, about a tablespoon of plain Rice Krispies, and about two tablespoons of vanilla ice cream. (Tummy is grumbling a little about the ice cream.) My bet = pizza by late this evening, unless I fall asleep before then.

I even feel like I have enough blood sugar to drive home. Yay for glycogen and fat. Isn't it cool that we have storage systems? Bodies are impressive.

Comments

[just-cyd.livejournal.com]

glad to hear you're feeling better and able to eat and drink. how's the tum pain? did you ever get meds on board? *hugs*

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Didn't yet. Abdomen hurty. Oh well... at least I'm getting the rest of the systems up and running! When they're happy, I can do meds.

[just-cyd.livejournal.com]

glad to hear you're moving forward! i hope you don't spend your whole weekend recovering from this.

and you're right: the human body is freaking amazing. and, sometimes, just plain freaky.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

So far (Sunday morning) the verdict on the weekend is: not eating a lot, but eating; intestines and lower still NOT HAPPY but tummy basically okay. I'm beginning to wonder what the heck I had (or still have?) here. Fish does not usually give me any kind of effects lasting more than eight hours! I'm beginning to wonder if I'll ever poop normally again.

[just-cyd.livejournal.com]

dude, sounds like you got something REALLY nasty. would something like e. coli be a possibility? or a very poorly-time bug that might be circulating your office? at any rate, i hope you continue to improve!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Maybe. If it's e.coli it's not a bad case; there's no blood, I'm able to keep fluids down, etc. That makes me think, though. I should probably check in with a doc on Monday. One medical web site says that any diarrhea that lasts several days is worth a checkup, and mine is not exactly borderline, if you get my meaning. :)

[just-cyd.livejournal.com]

if it's that bad, and has gone on for this long, i'd say a call to the doc is definitely in order. i'd think that after a while, mild dehydration and/or nutritional deficiencies might become an issue.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I *think* I'm only mildly dehydrated now, as opposed to Friday when I was probably a prune. Water is at least not coming back up! :)

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

Bodies are impressive.

Very impressive. But it can also be frustrating that they're such meta-stable systems. Small displacements can push them well over the curve.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

True. The more I see about how well a body can do with what it's got, though, the more impressed I get. It does stuff like heal, fight off infection, store energy in a couple of ways, and regulate its internal temperature. To paraphrase Dave Barry because I'm too lazy to look up the quote, I feed it Cheetos and it makes useful things like glands. It's wacky.

[ericainohio.livejournal.com]

Glad you're doing better!

Bodies are indeed completely wacky and impressive. Ponder, if you will, the bizarre-ness of the average placenta. The female body can grow an entire rather large ORGAN and then DISCARD it with no ill effects. Freaky.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Not to mention that the female body can grow (support, feed) an entire small HUMAN BEING and then get rid of it. Sometimes two! ;-)

[shoutingboy.livejournal.com]

Last time I had stomach flu, I reintroduced myself to food with Gatorade. Calories and much-needed salt, and relatively easy to stomach. And they have it (or Powerade) at pretty much every convenience store.

Worth a try?

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I usually do Saltines, which is similar when I think about it: easily-digested carbohydrates and salt!

[allanh.livejournal.com]

Ah, there's the problem. It wasn't Rice Krispies you needed ... it was Rice Krispy TREATS.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

More SUGAR! Always a win... um... ok, almost never a win, but this is the sort of time when it's a good idea.