Let me begin by saying I am a raging idiot. I figured, what the hell, a little polish sausage from Costco won’t kill me. Toss in a few onions and some mustard, mmm mmm good. We had to be at the house at 8am for the furnace and plumbing guys to come check the horrifying inspection report we’d gotten on the house. I thought a second about the polish sausage…Listeria. It was cooked thoroughly, so I got over it and scarfed the sucker down.
6am comes. I wake up nauseous beyond belief. I take my thyroid pill and pray that I can go back to sleep for an hour before I need to yakk. No such luck. I surpressed until 6:35. I’m proud of that, I’ve never felt so sick in my life. I prayed to the porcelain god for over an hour, all the time with nothing in my stomach. If you’ve read my symptom updates, you’ve read that I have had the unfortunate experience of letting bladder loose everytime I vomit. Well, this time, I lost control of ALL bodily functions. Again, I have never been so sick in my life.
7:15am – We head out of the house. I feel horrible. I try eating a blueberry muffin to avoid a repeat of the empty belly, flourescent yellow, painful yakk of the morning. Eric’s trying to drive carefully so I don’t eject myself out of the roof of the car. I surpresseed for 25 minutes. Again, I am proud. Eric then hit the brakes on the highway. You can guess what happened next.
We get to the house around 8 and I managed to get through the whole rest of the day without throwing up. I even went out to eat, and got a bite and a half down. We returned home and I couldn’t stop shivering. I was freezing cold. I had no fever but I certainly felt like I had one. I kept trying to eat a muffin, things that would keep me from empty belly pukes and surpressed until 1am. Then it came, harder than ever before. I have never been so sick in my life, this life, past lives or any future ones. To top it off, I bled a little and it scared the hell out of me.
It ended around 4. I finally got to sleep and, upon waking, scared the hell out of myself reading what food poisoning can do to pregnancies. I called the doctor at 2 and her nurse said, “You’re fine. If it’s over with, you’re just fine. Don’t worry about it.”
So, I’m trying not to worry about it. Even though I’m now convinced my child will be born 3 months early and have some horrible mutation because my idiot self decided to eat Costco onions that had probably been sitting out for weeks on end. I am an idiot.
