Night of Nausea

For the most part, my health over the summer has been relatively good. I've had some lousy health each week but I've been able to accomplish a few things each week. Overall, lately I am finding that if I am religious about taking all my medications, careful about not straying from my very restrictive diet, keep my body as cool as possible and avoid all stress, my health stays relatively stable.

Last night, however, my health crashed.

It has been terribly hot and humid the past week... bad news for my health.

I strayed from my limited diet last night at dinnertime... bad news for my health.

I got stressed over a four day-long project getting damaged in an instant last night which means I wasted very precious energy... energy which is very rare to come by... bad news for my health.

At some point yesterday, I screwed up one of my doses of medications which I did not realize until after my health started crashing... bad news for my health. I also didn't pick up on a very reliable clue of impending disaster... I was experiencing excruciating bone and joint pain all day and this pain worsened as the day progressed. The pain was (and still is) unbearable.

So I experienced moderate (by my "new normal" standards... most people would consider it "serious") breathing issues... nausea... vision issues... by this point, I should have already taken my emergency medications, including an epinephrine injection... cognitive problems... then my health really took a nosedive with a sudden sensation of free-falling followed by palpitations and tachycardia.  This was a clear-cut sign that I experienced anaphylaxis... again.

The nausea got so bad that I was holding back vomit for hours through the wee hours of the night. Breathing difficulties lingered. Cognitive difficulties lingered causing me to make some poor decisions about emergency medications. All-in-all, it was a pretty miserable night.

Today I am left feeling drained from the anaphylaxis. The bone and joint pain is still unbearable which, I suppose, is a step in the right direction away from "excruciating". I am groggy from my emergency medications too. And, I suppose I still have a little bit of nausea lingering because I have no desire to eat anything this morning.

I don't think much will accomplished today...