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Paul Crowley ([personal profile] ciphergoth) wrote2005-04-06 09:17 pm

Meh. Ill.

I have a nasty stomach bug. Jess has pleaded with me not to describe exactly how nasty, but believe me it isn't pretty. After a very unpleasant night, I'm now drinking a cup-a-soup, my first substantial food since yesterday evening.

There's no way I'm going into work until Monday at the earliest...

[livejournal.com profile] spikeylady and [livejournal.com profile] lilithmagna have of course been wonderful me-looking-after people...

[identity profile] vvalkyri.livejournal.com 2005-04-06 08:34 pm (UTC)(link)
hope you feel better.
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[personal profile] booklectica 2005-04-06 08:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Eeek! That sounds horrible. Hope soup and partners are helpful.
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[personal profile] redcountess 2005-04-06 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Hope you're feeling better soon. Plain boiled rice and peaches are good (but not together), and keep your fluids up!

[identity profile] vvalkyri.livejournal.com 2005-04-06 10:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Together sounds disturbingly interesting.

And yes, fluids are a good thing. Stomach bugs - ick.

Oh my

[identity profile] webcowgirl.livejournal.com 2005-04-06 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Oooh, ahhh, urggh. Hope you're feeling better soon.

[identity profile] jezebel-z.livejournal.com 2005-04-06 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh dear, looks like I passed this on to you :o(

Mine still hasn't gone (worse since last night), but hope yours is more manageable. Good job you already had those rehydration salts in!

*gently hugs*

[identity profile] bathtubgin.livejournal.com 2005-04-06 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
There seems to be something of an stomach bug epidemic at the moment, though I doubt you've caught anything from anyone up here.

Have a virtual hot water bottle from me. Feel better!

[identity profile] emarkienna.livejournal.com 2005-04-06 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Get well soon! I find soup the only thing I can still face drinking, when an illness puts me off food.

[identity profile] adjectivemarcus.livejournal.com 2005-04-06 10:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Are you going to be fit for Saturday?

[identity profile] ciphergoth.livejournal.com 2005-04-07 07:28 am (UTC)(link)
Good question. Er, maybe. If [livejournal.com profile] jezebel_z is still ill then probably not, though. Very sorry!

[identity profile] the-maenad.livejournal.com 2005-04-06 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Lot of this going about -- I was off work with such a bug almost all of last week. Get well soon.

[identity profile] ejde.livejournal.com 2005-04-06 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
I had it last week, so many sympathies. Get well soon.

[identity profile] lacuna-raze.livejournal.com 2005-04-07 04:27 am (UTC)(link)
Get well soon :-( Hope it passes quickly.
We're moved into new house now so there is a guest bedroom if any of you ever need it.

[identity profile] valkyriekaren.livejournal.com 2005-04-07 06:39 am (UTC)(link)
Poor love. Tummy bugs are rotten.
Try to drink as much water as you can, even if it doesn't stay down. I find plain rice is a good 'first thing' to eat when coming back from a stomach bug.

[identity profile] sparklegoth.livejournal.com 2005-04-07 07:47 am (UTC)(link)
Hope you get well soon sweetie! I've had a touch of that myself recently and it wasn't nice. Good you have lovely people there to take care of you.

[identity profile] ajva.livejournal.com 2005-04-07 08:51 am (UTC)(link)
Eurgh. Get well soon.

[identity profile] simm42.livejournal.com 2005-04-07 08:55 am (UTC)(link)
Not good!

You are the 3rd person on my LJ this morning to be ill!


Hope yo pick up soon

[identity profile] duranorak.livejournal.com 2005-04-07 10:35 am (UTC)(link)
I'm so sorry, love, you poor thing. I'm glad they're looking after you, and obviously if you need anything I'm only up the road, after all. ~gentle hugs~ Hope you're better soon. Much love.

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[identity profile] gingiber.livejournal.com 2005-04-07 10:45 am (UTC)(link)
Oh poor you, have you succumbed to the winter vomiting bug you'd thought they could come up with a better name

Get well soon.

[identity profile] ciphergoth.livejournal.com 2005-04-07 12:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks - that's exactly what I've got I think. And no, I didn't go to the doctor - do they want my statistic, I wonder?

[identity profile] keirf.livejournal.com 2005-04-07 12:40 pm (UTC)(link)
I had the winter vomiting virus back in January - not nice at all. Dehydrated but throwing up withing seconds of drinking any water.

Vaimoni had it even worse (she caught it in hospital and brought it home to me), in that she had simultaneous diarrhoea and projectile vomiting.

It's quite infectious but not serious. Going to your local GP would probably end up spreading it more. I wonder - perhaps they could have a website for reporting it.

[identity profile] ciphergoth.livejournal.com 2005-04-07 05:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Or squirting out of both ends simultaneously as Jess pleaded with me not to write here earlier...

[identity profile] gingiber.livejournal.com 2005-04-07 01:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I was wondering that too when both Seth and Myself came down with it.

But I guess they would just look at me like I was a weirdo - you what...?

[identity profile] kelemvor.livejournal.com 2005-04-07 11:45 am (UTC)(link)
More sympathies.
Had that on a ski-ing holiday - not pleasant. (Also, thanks for not describing the symptoms...)