Normal service is resumed…
Jun 25th 2006
Well that was a weekend I hadn’t planned!
This is how it should have turned out.
Friday – nice meal with H followed by trip to cinema. Saturday – trip to antiques shop to look at furniture and also pressie for mum’s birthday. Sunday – halo-providing sponsored walk for Cancer Research.
This is how it actually turned out.
Friday morning – left work early feeling ill. Friday afternoon – spent quality time with the toilet bowl, revisiting the previous night’s dinner…to the point where I couldn’t get up off the bathroom floor, H called NHS Direct, NHS Direct said call an ambulance. Friday night – A&E, connected to a drip. Friday night to Sunday morning – my own little ensuite room in the local hospital connected to said drip, feeling sorry for myself and wondering where it all went wrong. Low blood pressure, dehydrated, sore tummy and generally grumpy. Sunday lunchtime – sitting in back garden with a renewed appreciation for my little patch of green with little pink and purple hardy geraniums, honeysuckle, hostas, a brave half dead rose and other unidentified green things. After staring at yellow hospital walls for two days, and listening to nurses chuntering on (although they did a brill job and we love them for it) the peace and quiet of my little garden for just 10 minutes when i got home was a blessed relief.
I have no idea what I would have done if H hadn’t been there on Friday. Probably would have called my mum. Or stayed on the bathroom floor! Poor boy. Ruined his weekend good and proper. Especially as he starts his new job tomorrow.
But i’m out in time for England’s game against Ecuador and that, let’s face it folks, is the most important thing!! Phew!
Off to weigh myself now. If I have to go through such a truly disgusting revolting experience, the least I can expect to get out of it is the shedding of a couple of pounds!
Jun 25th 2006
Did they work out what it was or was it a case of Gastrogrrl meets Gastrobug?
Jun 25th 2006
And this is how I planned it. BadlyDrawnToy spends week moving into GastroGrrl’s cute (though somewhat untidy) terrace in Macclesfield. BadlyDrawnToy poisons GastroGrrl’s food. GastroGrrl expires. BadlyDrawnToy gets himself a free house!
OK. That wasn’t funny. Neither was the food poisoning/virus/alien abduction. Good to have you back! Please don’t do it again. Not during the World Cup.
Jun 26th 2006
I was on the point of renaming this blog “GastricGrrl” but thought better of it.
Ste – No they haven’t worked out what it was – gastroenteritis is all i got out of them, which pretty much covers everything.
BDT – i promise not to do it again. By the way, have spent the day calculating how much you have to pay me each month to stay in my cute (though somewhat untidy) house – wasn’t looking too bad, then I read your entry, and am now checking my sums…don’t be surprised if it’s more than you thought…;-) only joking.
Jun 26th 2006
so I take it we won’t be going back there again!!??
please thank H for the phone calls keeping me updated, it’s been a true baptism of fire for him this weekend!
At least he found out that I’m not just a figment of your imagination and I do actually exist!
Jun 26th 2006
You exist do you?! If you close your eyes, are you still there…?!
OK…I’ll go and have a lie down now hee hee!
Jun 27th 2006
Are you sure he didn’t ring his mum for advice!
And did the hospital not advise that it was merely the smell of his vegy farts or the mere realisation of what you had done letting him crash at yours for a while that caused this upset tummy!!!
Glad to hear you are on the mend and able to get out to the cinema again.
See you soon.
Big get better kisses from J&S.
As for charges don’t forget to include TLC and breakfast in bed at least once a week on your list.
Jun 28th 2006
Trust me – at the moment, my farts are probably worse than his!!
Please tell J&S that the big get better kisses have helped a lot, just what I needed :-)