What A Week
The past week has been quite a week. My week was so lousy that I would have sworn that just this past week was really three weeks long!
First, the grandkids started puking last Sunday... unfortunately, I had been with them on Saturday so I was probably exposed to the same bug.
By Monday, the stomach virus had hit me as well. Fortunately for the grandkids, they shook off the bug within 24 hours. Unfortunately for me, bugs like this tend to linger and negatively impact my Systemic Mastocytosis with problems that linger even longer. This bug was no exception.
Some of the days over the past week were absolutely miserable... from morning to bedtime... but some of the days varied between waves of nausea and feeling like the bug was finally moving behind me. Then another wave would hit and I knew that I was only experiencing some wishful thinking.
Some days, my fatigue was actually brutal... I'd get up and immediately take my morning dose of medications... then, after my medications settled, I would attempt to eat something small (toast)... then, I would be so exhausted that I would lay down to sleep again. I'd awaken in time for some lunch... take my lunchtime medications first... wait the half hour before I could eat... then I'd make something small for lunch and eat... then I'd be completely spent and exhausted again so I'd sleep until dinner. Of course, waves of nausea would ebb and flow throughout the day. Typically, when you sleep through days like this, time seems to fly... not this time... it was brutal and time dragged.
Finally, a week into this nonsense, it was Monday again. It seemed like three weeks had passed but it was only one long miserable week. Overall, I was feeling pretty good. I even did some of my daily physical therapy. Mild nausea hit me again. Then, on Monday evening, I started having some neurological symptoms...
The right side of the top of my head became hyper-sensitive. Just touching my hair was painful. My scalp felt like it was badly sunburned even when not touching it and it was tingling. For a little while, I was wondering if maybe I was developing shingles. It goes without saying that getting Shingles is not good for even a healthy person but it would be absolutely miserable and dangerous in combination with my illness. On the positive side, my head is feeling 'normal' today but last night I was wondering if I'd need to call the doctor today for symptoms of shingles.
So, it is now Tuesday... around lunchtime... I'm feeling halfway decent. I'm still exhausted and worn out but I haven't experienced any nausea yet today. We'll see what happens after I eat some lunch...
First, the grandkids started puking last Sunday... unfortunately, I had been with them on Saturday so I was probably exposed to the same bug.
By Monday, the stomach virus had hit me as well. Fortunately for the grandkids, they shook off the bug within 24 hours. Unfortunately for me, bugs like this tend to linger and negatively impact my Systemic Mastocytosis with problems that linger even longer. This bug was no exception.
Some of the days over the past week were absolutely miserable... from morning to bedtime... but some of the days varied between waves of nausea and feeling like the bug was finally moving behind me. Then another wave would hit and I knew that I was only experiencing some wishful thinking.
Some days, my fatigue was actually brutal... I'd get up and immediately take my morning dose of medications... then, after my medications settled, I would attempt to eat something small (toast)... then, I would be so exhausted that I would lay down to sleep again. I'd awaken in time for some lunch... take my lunchtime medications first... wait the half hour before I could eat... then I'd make something small for lunch and eat... then I'd be completely spent and exhausted again so I'd sleep until dinner. Of course, waves of nausea would ebb and flow throughout the day. Typically, when you sleep through days like this, time seems to fly... not this time... it was brutal and time dragged.
Finally, a week into this nonsense, it was Monday again. It seemed like three weeks had passed but it was only one long miserable week. Overall, I was feeling pretty good. I even did some of my daily physical therapy. Mild nausea hit me again. Then, on Monday evening, I started having some neurological symptoms...
The right side of the top of my head became hyper-sensitive. Just touching my hair was painful. My scalp felt like it was badly sunburned even when not touching it and it was tingling. For a little while, I was wondering if maybe I was developing shingles. It goes without saying that getting Shingles is not good for even a healthy person but it would be absolutely miserable and dangerous in combination with my illness. On the positive side, my head is feeling 'normal' today but last night I was wondering if I'd need to call the doctor today for symptoms of shingles.
So, it is now Tuesday... around lunchtime... I'm feeling halfway decent. I'm still exhausted and worn out but I haven't experienced any nausea yet today. We'll see what happens after I eat some lunch...
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