I'm ALIVE!!!

I'm ALIVE!!!! I've finally feeling better after 48 hours of feeling like death. I said to Paul, "I feel like I'm 90 years old. If this is what it feels like to be 90, no thank you!"

I'm a real big baby when I'm sick. I freaking HATE when I don't feel 100% because the lifestyle I lead REQUIRES me to be 100%. I am already feeling guilty about how my Friday classes are behind, but I'm getting ahead of myself...

I woke up Thursday morning feeling fine. I went for a run and it was beautiful. When it was time to eat breakfast, that's when I noticed something was wrong. I wasn't hungry at all and the thought of food made my stomach churn. Instead of my usual bran flakes, I had some oatmeal with strawberries. I had to force myself to eat them.

As the morning went on, I started to feel tired and experienced waves of nausea. I made myself eat chicken and carrots at lunch (around 11:30am), and then everything went to hell.

Teaching in the afternoon was one of the most difficult things ever. I had to stop talking and just breath several times so I wouldn't throw up. I ended up warning my students that I wasn't feeling well so if I seemed angry or annoyed, it wasn't directed toward them, it was just because my belly hurt. I even scrapped my lesson plan for my fourth graders at the end of the day. We were supposed to folk dance but I could NOT dance. I had them do dance along videos from Youtube instead.

Before I left work that day, I contemplated whether to get out sub plans or not. I WANTED to feel better for Friday but what if I didn't? I may as well set them out just in case. I was glad I did, because things got worse that evening.

I had to teach three piano lessons, and it took every ounce of will I had to make it through those lessons. I've taught piano lessons for 14 years and I have NEVER felt that ill during lessons. You're probably wondering why I didn't cancel. I hate canceling last minute and also these students are missing their lesson next week due to Thanksgiving so I didn't want it to be three weeks in between lessons.

When lessons were over at 6pm, I climbed into bed. My stomach was cramping and I had chills and aches. Luckily, I only woke up a couple times during the night and slept until 9am the next morning. 

When I woke up, my stomach felt better than the night before. Around lunch time I ate a junior cheeseburger and fries from Wendy's- SLOWLY. The only thing I had energy to do all day was lay on the couch. I ended up watching six episodes of The View, Morning Joe, and two episodes of 13 Reasons Why. It was basically a couch day. My big accomplishment before going to bed at 7pm was that I ate a slice of pizza. (You may wonder why I was eating Wendy's and pizza... when I am sick in the stomach, those are normally the first things I feel like I could eat. Crazy, but true! I couldn't drink seltzer water but I could eat a junior cheeseburger... weird.)

I slept until 5am the next morning and I woke up feeling HUNGRY!!! I ate another slice of pizza and then actually drank some seltzer water AND coffee!!!!! I could tell that I was probably going to be at least 75% better today, if not 90% I was so relieved. I told Paul before going to bed Friday night that I didn't want to wake up until I felt better. I think I got my wish.

Saturday was a much better day. I got dizzy while raking leaves in the morning but that was probably due to the lack of calories I had consumed over the past couple days. I was able to eat some soup and a roll and that made the dizziness go away. I didn't workout because I didn't feel like it and there was no point as I felt it would slow my progress to feeling 100%.

WebMD said according to my symptoms, it was likely I either had lead poisoning or a stomach virus. My guess is I had a stomach virus and that it was over in about 72 hours. Thank goodness. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy! Okay, maybe I would wish it on my WORST enemy, by not my normal, everyday enemies. :)

Thanks for listening to me complain about being sick! You guys are the best!

Are you tough when you're sick or a baby?

Did you have the stomach virus yet this year?

What do you crave when you finally get your appetite back?