Jan 07 2011
Surprise
I was woken up in the early morning darkness by a headache instead of by Audrey.
I took a couple of ibuprophen, made some coffee, and let Audrey out. I drank the coffee while reading my emails and waiting for the pills to work. Suddenly, I was overwhelmed by a stomach ache, which got increasingly worse until it became clear that the coffee and pills were to be only temporary visitors.
I ran out into the dark garden and said a painful farewell under the stars. This summoned Audrey from whatever is so important for her to do in the early morning hours, and for once, I wasn’t all that thrilled to see her. Some things are better done alone. Not for the first time, I contemplated the methods of bulimics with confusion: why put yourself through this voluntarily?
As being sick goes, though, in the fresh air under the trees is about as good as it gets.
Fortunately, I had some ginger ale along with the emergency water stash, and had that with some chicken soup later on. So far, so good, other than a lingering headache and stomach ache and that “out of it” feeling so familiar to all of us at one time or another. I must have picked up a bug along with the groceries yesterday.
So far, I’ve pretty much spent this lovely, sunny day in pajamas, reading and sipping ginger ale while the cats play in the sunshine. Hopefully I’ll feel better tomorrow.