Viral
So yesterday morning I was hanging around doing word puzzles when first one then a second text message came in from people who had barfed multiple times during the night and needed someone to buy the typical comfort food and deliver it. Saltines, cup-a-soup, and ginger ale, etc. Well, sure I can do that. Meijer to get food. Plum has a LOT of fancy stuff but things like saltines and cup-a-soup, not so much, at least not in the form factor that people remember them from when they were children. In the pic I am on the way from the country mouse’s house to the city mouse’s house.
Okay. Much later in the day, 4:00-ish, it was time to take the garbage carts out. I felt strangely chilly and almost asked the GG to do the deed but he was still feeling fugly so I sucked it up and did it myself. Maybe five minutes after I got back to the house, I was running to the bathroom to do guess what. Ugh. Ugh. Ugh. Three more bouts of that ensued and then I felt like the worst of it was done but still felt like you-know-what.
I was better this morning and by afternoon I sent the GG over to pick up some leftover crackers and things from the beach urchins. Although I remain on the upswing, I have not done much today, which is driving me nuts.
I am 99% sure this is not COVID. The GG tested negative and although his symptoms were a bit different than the rest of us (no vomiting), this felt like the regular old 24-hour “flu”. Empty your gut and you start feeling better.
That is all you need to know. Cheers.
December 28th, 2024 at 9:00 pm
Honestly, it sounds more like food poisoning to me. Glad that it goes away relatively quickly at least.
December 29th, 2024 at 11:50 am
I guess you could call that a traditional close knit family Christmas celebration, but yuck. So sorry. But you were together and presumably improving so there’s that. I’m going to join in on the (pointless but typical) speculation on the cause. My vote goes to a norovirus, which (I just re-learned) is different from food poisoning but so similar that only a lab test could distinguish which it was.
https://www.verywellhealth.com/food-poisoning-vs-stomach-flu-5213068#:~:text=In%20a%20nutshell%2C%20food%20poisoning,numbers%2C%20and%20this%20takes%20time.