Grr, Arrg
Been a few days since the last update, and with good reason. Since Sunday I've had a bastard of gastro bug.
On Sunday I had a 4 hour drive, which took me almost double that thanks to vomit stops every 15 minutes. Couldn't even hold down water. By the last hour my tounge was swolen, vision was blurred and I was getting quite disoriented. Really shouldn't have been on the road, but I didn't have much choice because the later it got the worse I got, and I didn't wanted to be stuck on the side of the road all night.
Just as I got home the diarrhea kicked in to complement the vomitting.
On Monday I weighed myself... 71.8kg. That's a loss of 4.3kg in a day... scary stuff. By Monday arvo I was keeping down liquids and the vomiting had stopped. By Tuesday I could keep some very basic foods, and had put back on 400g.
Wednesday (today) was fairly good, some more interesting food, and the diarrhea finally cleared up. My stomach is mostly feeling settled, but other than that I'm weak, exhausted and flabby! There's no doubt that that 4kgs was mostly muscle and water, though I haven't been game to do a BF test yet.
Hopefully I'll be back at work tomorrow, my wife and son are looking like they're mostly over it too so don't need me to stay home and help out. I'll take the rest of the week off exercise and try to gradually build back up to a decent diet. To date it's mostly consisted of water, lemonade and icy poles.
On Sunday I had a 4 hour drive, which took me almost double that thanks to vomit stops every 15 minutes. Couldn't even hold down water. By the last hour my tounge was swolen, vision was blurred and I was getting quite disoriented. Really shouldn't have been on the road, but I didn't have much choice because the later it got the worse I got, and I didn't wanted to be stuck on the side of the road all night.
Just as I got home the diarrhea kicked in to complement the vomitting.
On Monday I weighed myself... 71.8kg. That's a loss of 4.3kg in a day... scary stuff. By Monday arvo I was keeping down liquids and the vomiting had stopped. By Tuesday I could keep some very basic foods, and had put back on 400g.
Wednesday (today) was fairly good, some more interesting food, and the diarrhea finally cleared up. My stomach is mostly feeling settled, but other than that I'm weak, exhausted and flabby! There's no doubt that that 4kgs was mostly muscle and water, though I haven't been game to do a BF test yet.
Hopefully I'll be back at work tomorrow, my wife and son are looking like they're mostly over it too so don't need me to stay home and help out. I'll take the rest of the week off exercise and try to gradually build back up to a decent diet. To date it's mostly consisted of water, lemonade and icy poles.
posted by Ben at 9:16 PM
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