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[talktooloose]

I'm feeling awful, but better than yesterday.

We had our annual company retreat on Monday, Tuesday at a hotel in the Niagara region. The first day was quite amazing, finishing with an incredible evening spent talking at length with a former Prime Minister who has just joined the board of our company.

But I think the mussels did me in.

I woke at 2am, burning up. I tossed and turned for two hours, the nausea and cramps increasing, until I let loose at both ends around 4am. The rest of the night saw some sleep, but mostly stomach cramps. I went downstairs and told my colleagues I was going back to bed. More vomiting followed and then the rest of the day was a haze of fever, cramps and diarrhea. I was so weak, that I didn't have it in me to stand for more than five minutes at a time.

I slept like the dead last night (some pills to quell the cramps helped) and now I am feeling exhausted but not so systemically poor. I've even been able to eat and drink a bit.

Others who ate the mussels also felt unwell, but no one was hit like me. This might be because I am also fighting an amoeba infection in my guts which was diagnosed last week. Ugh. Snake has the parasites, too, and I wonder if we picked up the little visitors on some trip abroad and have been harbouring them for a year or two.

I am going to the doctor this morning and then coming home to SLEEP. Greatest joy.

Comments

[mofic.livejournal.com]

Poor you! Refuah shlemah to you.

[talktooloose.livejournal.com]

Just came from the doctor. He says the residual fatigue is mostly due to dehydration and that I should really drink a lot today. The problem is in my head: I say to myself that if that's all it is now, I should just "get over it" and work harder. But the fatigue is real and I have to respect that my body wants rest.

[mofic.livejournal.com]

Yes, do rest. And do drink, too. Dehydration takes a lot out of you.

[briseur.livejournal.com]

Think of your body, as you would a lover's. Make it any easier to respect its boundaries?

[strumquill.livejournal.com]

Be well soon and yes it is quite possible you both picked up the parasite, though it doesn't have to be from abroad. Guess you need to find out from where.

I am THINKING of a trip back to Ontario in the summer but not sure just yet due a to a lot of uncertainty in my work life. But will you guys be around in July?

[talktooloose.livejournal.com]

I don't know why we need to find out where the we got it. You're right. I could be any number of places.

We would be happy to see you in July and we have a bed for you for a couple of nights if you need it. We're not leaving town until last two weeks of August. Keep us informed.

[lux-apollo.livejournal.com]

Entamoeba infections can remain latent for years without causing issues, and then suddenly flare up. It is definitely a possibility in your case. I hope the doctor visit went well.

[talktooloose.livejournal.com]

The visit was fine, though I was basically told that there was nothing to do but replenish my fluids. My doctor is of the school of "do nothing where possible." Sometimes I agree with him, sometimes I think he's just lazy. It was actually B. who diagnosed us and pushed the doctor to test him.