Bleaagggh cubed
Mar. 3rd, 2010 09:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
talktoolooseI'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.
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.
