In the wee hours of Saturday morning, when I lay down after getting up to use the little room and feed Val, as I do every night, I had enough gastrointestinal distress, I couldn't get back to sleep, not even with my usual medicine for gas. It took a couple of hours to finally fall asleep, and then I woke up in early morning, and had more trouble with the mostly the same gastrointestinal distress. When I got up, I had a short, severe bout of a different kind of gastrointestinal distress, then felt better. I still tried to text the housekeeper to warn her to stay away. She didn't get it because she left her phone at home, but she went right back to her car. I got to talk to her from a good distance just long enough to establish yes, I'm sick, and I will let her know when I'm better. I hoped I already was, since I was feeling much better. {smile}
I still hoped I was better when I got first chilled, then overheated around lunch time, since I do that after a lot of illnesses, to the point I see it as part of me more than the illness. {smile}
However, I had to admit that this wasn't the case when I got a third kind of gastrointestinal distress around dinner time that even made it hard to eat. It's hung around right through the evening, but either it quickly got milder, or I quickly learned how to handle it much better than that first bout. It didn't go away that day, so I had serious doubts about making it to church tomorrow. Thankfully, they still try to post it online for those who find it easier to watch from home. {smile}
I didn't eat any meals with Mom, nor did I read to her today. Neither our relief nurse nor our regular nurse thought I should until I'm clearly over it. Our regular nurse isn't even sure she'll survive another illness, so I'm trying to be very careful not to give it to her. {faint smile}
I didn't do any of my exercises today. I just didn't feel up to them. {worn smile}
I shared yesterday's daily update in the morning. Then I chatted with Nox on the chat server a bit more than usual over lunch. After that, I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming after lunch and found Perogies. We chatted a bit, then teamed up, trying to do one of the individual high-level missions with two particularly good rewards a day. We did complete one but had to drop the difficulty twice before we could handle it. I blamed being sick, but that frustrated us so much, we switched to watching a show together. The first show we tried to watch was not to Perogies's taste, so we tried a second that was much better. Perogies pointed out when it was time to read to Mom, but I explained that wasn't happening because I was sick and will resume when I'm clearly noncontagious. So, we continued to watch until Perogies was ready for bed. We said goodnight, and I looked around at my friends list. Ulty looked like she was busy with an RP, but we chatted on the side. I told her I wasn't well enough for good RP or good play anyway. I also hunted for rewards on my fifth best reward hunter, cementing her claim to that title more firmly. I eventually got to talk with Nox on the chat server while hunting for rewards, too. When they left, I just hunted rewards until I started writing this, switching to making notes to write from the next day. {smile}
