Average Jane Loses Another Weekend

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I started feeling poorly on Friday afternoon and ended up leaving work early and taking my misery home. It turned out I was suffering from my all-time favorite ailment, food poisoning. You can tell it's my favorite because I get it ALL THE TIME.*

This was a particularly nasty case** and it laid me out for the rest of the day and night and well into the next day. I managed to emerge with a face full of broken capillaries and the inability to drag myself out of bed or form a coherent thought for nearly two days.

The first night was so bad that I considered going to the emergency room for an IV. However, a friend suggested I get a bottle of Pedialyte to drink and it ended up helping enough that I managed to take an ibuprofen for all of the head-to-toe pain I was in and actually get to sleep.

On Saturday morning I started out with dry toast and Pedialyte and managed to graduate to half a sub sandwich and some Sprite by evening. Even though I felt better, I was still so tired and lacking in motivation that I never actually accomplished anything all day long. Needless to say, I canceled all of my social plans.

I spent Sunday catching up on all of the work I'd missed the previous two days. So now it's Monday again and, for the second week in a row, I feel as though I haven't really had a weekend.

I'll bet you had a lot more fun this weekend than I did. What did you do?

*Actually, I probably do get it more often than most people. One of the many delightful side-effects of taking acid reflux medication is an increased susceptibility to food poisoning.

**No, I'm not sure where I got it. I'd had a lot of restaurant meals over the previous 24 hours and it could have been any of them.

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5 responses to “Average Jane Loses Another Weekend”

March 7, 2011

David

You know yourself better but my Mom thought she kept getting food poisoning and it turned out to be a gallbladder issue. Might be worth checking into just in case.

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March 7, 2011

Mary W

Sorry to hear this. I, too, get food poisoning more frequently than anyone else I know. My favorite episode? Passing out at a Luna show after eating chicken. I don’t take acid reflux meds, I think that I after the first really bad episode I became hypersensitive.

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March 7, 2011

flask

the last time i had food poisoning it had something to do with a turkey breast i’d been carrying around in the back of my car for a week.
i did not know that about reflux meds; all i notice is that since i had my gallbladdder out, i’m sick a lot less.

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March 8, 2011

Keith

Poor AJ, hope you are better now. Be more careful what and where you eat…

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March 9, 2011

Joy

A lot more fun than you? Hmmm, I passed a kidney stone…as you know from your comment on my blog. I think we may be even sweetie. Hey, I’ve never had food poisoning that I know of; but I would definitely check your gallbladder out. I had my gallbladder taken out some 23+ years ago…about three months before I had my first kidney stone. Some of the same discomforts are experienced in gallstones and gallbladder problems as in what you’ve described. Besides, if it’s not, it’s always good to rule things out. Hope you’re feeling a lot better. ~Joy

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