Aiyeee! Feel better soon. I dearly hope this isn't the bug that felled my assistant today. She touched every single thing I had to touch today before she left last night.
I've been so longing for crazy things like rice in homemade chicken broth! But we did have canned soup and saltines and blue jello (which in the days of microwaves is almost an instant food) so we were OK.
I'm still sleeping all the time. This thing is short, but with a long tail -- six hours of throwing up, six days of lying around going, "Do I have to get up to make jello?"
*hugs* If you're getting to the point where the dry heaves are getting rilly bad, sipping lukewarm water w/ just a little baking soda can help. It won't stop the frupping, but the base helps counteract the acid burning your throat, and the lukewarm liquid doesn't hurt as much coming back up (and sometimes, having something to come back up feels better than dryheaves). If someone can grab you raw ginger at the market, sucking on that can be stomach calming to. Good luck.
Yeah, it was pretty bad. The spouse caught it two days later, but he didn't throw up as much as I did. I don't know why I think that's some kind of badge of honor.
*pets muchly* Man, I hope you can keep something mild flavored down - broth or tea or something! Dehydration makes it much harder for you to get well :(
The next day I was so desperately, hopelessly thirsty that I sent the spouse out into the snow and freezing rain to go to McDonald's and buy me a cup of ice (because of course the ice tray had been put away empty again, and not by me, I might add) -- those three or four hours before I could drink anything might actually have been rougher than the throwing up.
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Date: 12/21/08 02:19 am (UTC)And the custodian still got the same sickness the next day.
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Date: 12/18/08 02:54 am (UTC)*sends bland foods that don't require any getting up to make at all, for when you are ready to give them a try*
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Date: 12/18/08 03:26 am (UTC)Poor you! Hope you can fall asleep quickly and wake up recovered.
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Date: 12/21/08 02:31 am (UTC)Did you pee at the same time?
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Date: 12/21/08 02:33 am (UTC)But then again, I knew someone once who threw up so hard he cracked a rib, so I guess I was lucky.
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