Ok, not. I have had the worst week. I came down with severe muscle pain, weakness, trembling and nausea on Thursday. And it only went downhill from there.
Because of all my existing muscle pain, especially in my neck, I was just a wreck. I went to the hospital a couple of times this weekend, since it was not immediately apparent I had a virus. I was concerned about my neck, at first, so had a lot of tests done and got a lovely shot of morphine. Yum. I had severe cramping in my abdomen, so they did an ultrasound.
They believe a virus, perhaps Norwalk, is the cause. It has resulted in the muscle pain, shivers and the major issue, the gastroenteritis. Unfortunately, I had a bad case of everything.
I have been living on Gatorade, when I can keep it down. My symptoms are slowly going away, and I have managed to keep some food down in the last 12 hours, although with a fair amount of pain from it.
I could totally have handled this if it were not for the muscle pain. That just kicked my ass. It’s not something I’d like to go through again.
Tags: flu, gastroenteritus, norwalk
Oh blech. I feel for you, doll. Hope the nasty virus goes away soon. Thinking of you!
I entirely sympathize. While my pain is in a different place for different reasons (lingering chemo and radiation side effects), I understand completely how nasty it is. I actually wish my little morphine tablets worked better than they do.
I’ve had a norovirus too, a couple of years ago, and it sucks big time in all sorts of ways. In fact, some of my recent symptoms were very similar, thankfully without the barfing.
So get better. You’ll appreciate life again when you do.