Waaah...

[miss_yt]

This morning I woke up feeling a little weak. I thought it might just be because I didn't get a lot of sleep last night (I had to stay up late and do my laundry because I had other plans for tonight), but when I went to Curves and started to exercise, I got very short of breath and nauseous. I came back home and ate an orange, but that didn't make me feel better - in fact, it didn't sit too well in my stomach and I felt like I was going to be sick. So I called in to work to say I wouldn't be there and spent most of the day sleeping. I feel better now, but I'm afraid to try and ingest anything other than water, and my plans for tonight - a sushi dinner with the Bryn Mawr Young Alumnae - are out of the question.

On the bright side, Roo has been very supportive: she's been sleeping on my legs and has not behaved badly. I also finished the scarf I was making for my father and got started on the first square of Grandma's afghan. I hope I'll feel better tomorrow.

Comments

[jadescarlet.livejournal.com]

I've found that ginger ale is brilliant when you have a stomach that doesn't let you eat anything. Or some kind of tea that has ginger in it might work too.

[miss-yt.livejournal.com]

Well, I had my peppermint tea (since I don't have ginger ale on hand) and it's helped a lot. I was able to eat a little something for dinner.

[hughcasey.livejournal.com]

Feel better soon.

[armageddonkitty.livejournal.com]

Vanilla ice cream or milkshakes. Gets you calories in an easily digestible form (unless you're lactose intolerant).

I can't have peppermint tea because it aggravates my reflux. (Relaxes the esophogeal sphincter.) But I do drink Bigelow's Mint (herbal) tea.

And I should think that anything bready, like waffles, would be well-tolerated.

Expectant mothers eat arrowroot cookies for nausea, don't they?

The last trick I know is slippery elm bark powder. You can get that at the health food store. We fed that to our ferrets when they were sick with ECE (deadly digestive tract disease). Slippery elm protects and heals the stomach lining while also providing some nourishment. Someone told me that the Continental Army used it to survive ugly winters... but I could have made that up in my head. Anyway, you make a warm oatmealy paste out of it.

Feel better soon!

[miss-yt.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm okay now. Whatever it was has passed.

Maybe I should keep ginger ale on hand for future stomach problems too.

[armageddonkitty.livejournal.com]

Ginger ale is the bomb.

And damn, I still love that icon so much.

I assume the first "please stand up" guy is Mal.

[miss-yt.livejournal.com]

Yeah. It's Captain Kirk, Han Solo, Malcolm Reynolds, Spike Spiegel, and John Chrichton (Original Star Trek, Star Wars, Firefly, Cowboy Bebop and Farscape). my friend arcessita made it for me.