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[personal profile] edenfalling
So the more coherent version of my last post goes as follows:

Shortly after 1am, I began feeling nauseous (in addition to the diarrheal cramps and the bizarre gurgling sensation I'd been fighting since around 3pm, as if something in my guts were actively fermenting or whatever) and simultaneously developed a case of bone-deep chill and full body shakes that lasted, in total, something like 45 minutes -- they were just tapering off when I reached the hospital. And that is WITH two extra-strength Tylenol.

I called 911 and they sent an ambulance, because there was no way in hell I was capable of driving.

I vomited in the ambulance. Pretty much everything I ate since I'd gotten up around 2:30pm came right back up. Not fun in the slightest. Although, in a potentially useful side effect, once I'd cleared everything out of my digestive system from one end or the other, there was nothing left for the diarrheal cramps to keep shoving out. Small backhanded favors!

Anyway, they checked me in at Cayuga Medical Center, I sat in the waiting room for a while (which is when I made my previous post), and then they stuck me on a gurney and waited for a room to open up. The hospital was apparently crazy busy last night, mostly people screwed up on alcohol or other recreational drugs, which I guess is because it's Apple Harvest Fest weekend and people are partying hard. This had the side effect of making people forget I was there for long stretches of time, presumably because I wasn't either belligerently drunk or in immediate danger of death. The nurses always answered the call button, though, and were quite helpful when actually in the room.

Once I got a room, they hooked me up to a blood pressure/heartbeat monitor (apparently mine were too high), and put me on a saline drip (to counter dehydration) that also included some fever reducers because surprise surprise, I was still running a mild fever. Later I got a second IV drip plus an anti-nausea shot, and I asked for the bed to be lowered completely flat so I was able to get an hour or so of uneasy sleep. (Previously I'd been watching a documentary on lucha libre, or Mexican masked wrestling, to distract myself from the way my lower back was screaming in pain. There are reasons I sleep with a single extremely flat pillow and find people who construct pillow barricades utterly baffling. But I am way off topic now, so! Moving on.)

The upshot is that this seems to be a nasty viral thing that's been going around Ithaca. Half the hospital staff have already had it and another third are currently home sick with basically the same thing, just not quite as severe as my case. I hit the bad luck lottery or something. :-/

I am now home (after a small misadventure with a taxi pickup) and in possession of a prescription for some anti-nausea medication that I will try to get filled later today once my local pharmacy opens. I also took 600mg of ibuprofen for continuing fever symptoms as directed by the nurse, am risking some bread and gingerale because I am starving, and will shortly be going to bed because I AM EXHAUSTED.

I am also under strict orders to not go into work today under any circumstances, and if I don't feel better by this evening, not to go in tomorrow either. I am pretty sure I will have to go in tomorrow regardless, since AS is not yet satisfactorily trained in closing and also I think I am the person scheduled to do afternoon cashup, but I am going to cross my fingers and think unrealistically positive thoughts about my likely recovery time. *resolve face*

And now to bed.

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Date: 2012-09-29 12:02 pm (UTC)
askerian: Serious Karkat in a red long-sleeved shirt (Default)
From: [personal profile] askerian
DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD:

*HUGHUGHUG* auuuuugh. YES REST IS GOOD. D: *frets argh too far away to hover argh*

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Date: 2012-09-29 12:10 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] jjhunter
Best wishes for a speedy recovery! That sounds like quite the ordeal.

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Date: 2012-09-29 12:20 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] sabriel
I hope you feel better soon!

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Date: 2012-09-29 01:08 pm (UTC)
silverblade219: a wolf looking at reflection in a lake (Default)
From: [personal profile] silverblade219
Hope you feel better soon.

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Date: 2012-09-29 02:33 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] lexicology
Good lord! That sounds like a truly nasty bug you've got there. Hope your recovery goes well!

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Date: 2012-09-29 04:53 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] branchandroot
Worlds of blargh. But yay for promethazine, which is most likely what they want you to take for the nausea. Your stomach will feel made of cast iron once that kicks in; great stuff. I will think good-sleep thoughts for you. *also waves pompoms to cheer on your white blood cells*

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Date: 2012-10-01 02:52 am (UTC)
branchandroot: oak against sky (Default)
From: [personal profile] branchandroot
Oh, excellent! Yes, that stuff does work very nicely, and it doesn't usually make you dizzy or sleepy until you have a /hefty/ dose. Good for daytime use.

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Date: 2012-09-29 12:11 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] rthstewart.livejournal.com
Thanks for the post! When I saw your update last night I was worried and that sounds like one nasty virus which is also probably really contagious! Sleep well! I hope you feel much better really soon
Edited Date: 2012-09-29 12:12 pm (UTC)

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Date: 2012-09-29 12:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aishuu.livejournal.com
Feel better - don't push too hard.

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Date: 2012-09-29 01:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cherokee1.livejournal.com
Christ, the last i read before lights out is that you did not feel well, not that you were at death's door, tapping timidly.
This is not what I expected, sheese.
please feel better soon. I am sending good thoughts your way, dear.
And, is the owner of the smoke shop in Ithaca?
Also, here is an essay you may find interesting.
http://issendai.livejournal.com/572510.html#cutid1
The writer is prolific in this subject.
You seem happy at this job, however, when one has been at the hospital, quite ill, and the
major thought is that you can't miss work because there is no one else that can keep the
place from crashing....
Please concentrate on you today.
c

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Date: 2012-09-29 02:18 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] snacky
Oh man! What an ordeal, but I am glad you got help, and are doing a little better. Rest up! Lots of liquids!

As a veteran of retail I say when you get this sick, you're off until Monday - aside from you having to, you know, get better, you don't want to give this virus to anyone else. Someone else will have to cover! They can and SHOULD do that!

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Date: 2012-09-29 03:09 pm (UTC)
lady_songsmith: owl (owl)
From: [personal profile] lady_songsmith
God, that sounds incredibly nasty. Feel better soon!! And STAY HOME! (really, your coworkers would probably rather fumble around without you than get the bug)

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Date: 2012-10-01 02:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dameruth.livejournal.com
Wow, glad I was scrolling backwards and hit this before your hospitalization announcement, so I didn't have to be *as* freaked out. Sounds a bit like a really, really bad case of the norovirus that burned through this part of the world back in Feb.; I didn't get it bad enough to be hospitalized, but some of my friends were.

At any rate, whatever it was, glad you're on the mend from it!

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Date: 2012-10-01 07:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] annearchy.livejournal.com
Oh Liz, it sounds like you had Norovirus, which is truly awful. My kiddo had that a few years ago (contracted it at a church luncheon, where maybe 20 of the 50 people present got sick, not from the food but from a small child who was ill and yet came to church). We ended up in the ER too after several hours of serious vomiting. Hope you are feeling back to normal really soon.

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