Scattered Thoughts . . .

W ell, the stomach virus that is one of the things running rampant through society over the past few weeks has finally found its way to our house.   All day yesterday, I had twinges of odd intestinal problems...  sudden pains...  a short lived cramp...  then I started feeling like someone had knocked the wind out of me.  Within minutes, I was in the bathroom with diarrhea.  I'd come out for a bit, then would need to get back to the bathroom.  This continued through most of the night.  Even when I was in bed, I couldn't lay down.   Honestly though, what I experienced through the night was far less severe than one of my typical Systemic Mastocytosis episodes that involves my gastrointestinal tract.  Although, when this first started, I couldn't tell if it was viral or my illness.   While I was sitting at the piano last night before attempting to lay down in bed, I started to get lightheaded like I was going to pass out....

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 me...