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Banana, Crackers and Gatorade… Oh my!

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life

Well, I finally feel like I am at least partly back from the dead. But really, that’s get­ting ahead of myself; allow me to back­track a bit.

2005. May. 7th. Ariesna and I were joined in wed­ded bliss. Unfor­tu­nately with her just fin­ish­ing her degree and pay­ing for a wed­ding money was tight so we didn’t have the cash to go some place exotic and we couldn’t really afford to spend more than a night away. So I picked a B&B just a few hours drive away. A help­ful friend had rec­om­mended it as the most roman­tic B&B in the area. After the cer­e­mony & recep­tion, we drove out and enjoyed our one night there.

2006. Ariesna and I went back to the same B&B for an entire week­end. We ate out at a cou­ple of nice restau­rants, did a lit­tle shop­ping and hit up an art museum while we were there. It was a grand time, but by the end of it we were both tired. We got home, chilled for a while and even­tu­ally went to bed. Bliss­ful slum­ber was inter­rupted at 4:30 AM by me wak­ing up feel­ing like I was chok­ing and/or drown­ing. I ran into the bath­room and spent the next 15 min­utes or so kneel­ing in front of the porce­lain throne. After get­ting myself cleaned up, I tried going back to bed but woke up a while later with the same prob­lem. Again, I even­tu­ally got cleaned up and tried going back to bed. Later, I got the intense fun of mak­ing a trip to the doc­tor on what was sup­posed to be the last day of my vaca­tion. I got weighed¹, poked, prod­ded and a q-tip was shoved down my throat². The doc­tor con­firmed I had the flu com­bined with a sinus infec­tion. How­ever he was wor­ried that I was severely dehy­drated and wanted to put me on an IV to get some flu­ids in me. Alas after much pok­ing (in both arms), they real­ized I was too dehy­drated for the nee­dle to go in prop­erly. Even­tu­ally, they gave up on the IV and let Ariesna take me home. Though they did tell her to keep push­ing flu­ids down me and rec­om­mended she get me to drink 2 liters of gatorade that day and keep push­ing the flu­ids at me the next. She did so, con­tin­u­ally wak­ing me up from some of the best sleep I’ve ever had to drink, drink drink. And I don’t even like gatorade! *sigh* I mean the fruit punch ver­sion isn’t too bad but the rest.… yeck.

Any­hoo, I ended up spend­ing the entire week home sick and now the night before I finally go back to the office I am feel­ing much bet­ter. I’m just not at 100% yet. My sinuses throb (and con­tin­u­ally drain down my throat) and on top of that I’ve got an evening cough³ which feels like it’s going to rip my throat in half. But I’m still tak­ing the anti-biotics the doc­tor pre­scribed and I’m hop­ing when the pills are gone so will be the last of my health problems.

Oh yeah, if you’re won­der­ing about the title on this post that’s pretty much all the food I’ve eaten in the last week. It’s been thrilling. :(

¹ No, I’m not repeat­ing what that lying hunk of metal claimed was my weight.
² Appar­ently, that’s part of the test for strep throat. Only nobody warned me in advance. Inci­den­tally, the test came back neg­a­tive but it has a 15% chance of fail­ure.
³ It only hap­pens after 5. No idea on why that is, but there you have it.

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