centre of the universe - the dreaming: OH YUK

09/06/2005: "OH YUK" So, on the heels of the coughing palsy that our house has been afflicted with over the past couple of weeks, yours truly woke up on Sunday night/early Monday morning thinking, "that's odd. I feel like I might hurl". After a trip to the bathroom, all seemed to be well, no barfing...but then as I lay down again, I thought, more definitely this time, "no, I'm quite certain that I'm going to hurl."

And so I did.

Visciously.

Many, many times.

I'm not sure if it's an intestinal flu or something I picked up from eating raw eggs or something I picked up from having an IUD, but whatever it is, BOY is it terrible. Chills, fever, alternating between the two...I'm tempted to say it's a flu because whenever I get a virus, the back of my neck gets incredibly sore, and the back of my neck is incredibly sore.

So I'm cancelling all of my appointments for the day - I missed the Duck Derby yesterday - The Captain's young friend came by and they went together with His Nibs, while I stayed home, lying on the floor, letting The Nipper crawl all over me and watching football.

Yay Edmonton.

I urge you all to try this someday, just for the experience (not a pleasant one), if you haven't already: coughing uncontrollably while barfing and experiencing explosive diaherrea all at the same time. It's marginally different from the intense pain of e-coli (which I know Terry and cenobyte have both experienced, although I think Terry's experience was somewhat more...er...intense), in which actual FIRE passes through one's intestinal system. Similar in that the traditional pose of someone suffering from e-coli is sitting on the biffy with one's head in a bucket. Different in that this last horrid flu didn't cause any real kind of pain. Just annoying and slightly disgusting symptoms.

"Wheezing cough of impending death" "My Night"

2 Comments

Der Kaptin , on Tuesday, 6th September:

Have the words "West Nile" passed through your flu-addled brain? It's just a thought.

cenobyte , on Tuesday, 6th September:

er, no.
Not as such, no.
I thought West Nile was more of a respiratory 'porblem' - the coughing palsy we have is definitely transferred from one person to another, and there hasn't been any fever or chills with it - my intestinal flu is some kind of divine punishment, I figure.

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