A Tough Couple of Days
What was supposed to be a big weekend for me has taken a dramatic change for the worse! I went out with some friends for dinner and a movie on Friday night and came home looking forward to having a family day yesterday with swimming lessons, shopping, lunch and going to the drive in followed by a trip to McLaren Vale for an overnight stay with 3 friends to see the Rob Thomas and Vanessa Amorosi concert! But that all turned sour late Friday night.
I woke up in the middle of the night with a bout of gastro - Lachie had had it earlier in the week, but he had a lot of vomiting as well, Michael caught it and only had it for a short time but no vomiting and luckily Mikayla and I missed it - or so we thought!
The problem is I donated blood on Thursday night, so I had to ring the Red Cross to tell them that i'd come down with gastro and their response was thanks for letting us know, we may be able to use your plasma but will dispose of the blood. Then they put me onto a medical officer who gave me advice based on the fact that our immune system is compromised for 72 hours after donating blood - hence I would feel the effects of this greater than if I hadn't donated blood - well that's definitely been the case!
I'm completely exhausted, pale, can't eat and late last night I had to call a locum because I felt very faint and thought I was going to pass out when going to the toilet and I got the sweats. The locum came out about 10.30pm and gave me maxolon which had stopped the vomiting. Amazing that I didn't vomit at all until I started to take hydrolyte and after the second dose of that I started throwing it all up!
So today I still have a little bit of diarrhoea, though nowhere near as bad as yesterday and am trying to eat to get back some strength - yesterday I had a few dry crackers and water, i've just finished a piece of toast with vegemite (no butter) and some diluted apple juice and so far so good. My big problem is I simply feel exhausted I have absolutely no energy at all which is a catch 22 because i'm sure if I could eat i'd regain some strength! So today is another rest day, I wasn't successful in selling my tickets so have lost the money for the concert because I just can't face the thought of going. Thankfully I have tomorrow off work as an annual leave day anyway so can rest up with no kids (it's not easy resting when you're sick with 2 kids in the house).
So no doubt i'll be in for a very good loss this week but not for reasons I wanted, oh well, I think from now on i'll cancel my blood donation appointment anytime ANYONE in the family has been sick in the week prior (the questionnaire you fill out prior to donating blood asks "have you been sick or unwell in the last week" and rightly or wrongly I ticked no because I hadn't and had assumed the bug had gone - no such luck! I'll be back soon with a brighter post.
I woke up in the middle of the night with a bout of gastro - Lachie had had it earlier in the week, but he had a lot of vomiting as well, Michael caught it and only had it for a short time but no vomiting and luckily Mikayla and I missed it - or so we thought!
The problem is I donated blood on Thursday night, so I had to ring the Red Cross to tell them that i'd come down with gastro and their response was thanks for letting us know, we may be able to use your plasma but will dispose of the blood. Then they put me onto a medical officer who gave me advice based on the fact that our immune system is compromised for 72 hours after donating blood - hence I would feel the effects of this greater than if I hadn't donated blood - well that's definitely been the case!
I'm completely exhausted, pale, can't eat and late last night I had to call a locum because I felt very faint and thought I was going to pass out when going to the toilet and I got the sweats. The locum came out about 10.30pm and gave me maxolon which had stopped the vomiting. Amazing that I didn't vomit at all until I started to take hydrolyte and after the second dose of that I started throwing it all up!
So today I still have a little bit of diarrhoea, though nowhere near as bad as yesterday and am trying to eat to get back some strength - yesterday I had a few dry crackers and water, i've just finished a piece of toast with vegemite (no butter) and some diluted apple juice and so far so good. My big problem is I simply feel exhausted I have absolutely no energy at all which is a catch 22 because i'm sure if I could eat i'd regain some strength! So today is another rest day, I wasn't successful in selling my tickets so have lost the money for the concert because I just can't face the thought of going. Thankfully I have tomorrow off work as an annual leave day anyway so can rest up with no kids (it's not easy resting when you're sick with 2 kids in the house).
So no doubt i'll be in for a very good loss this week but not for reasons I wanted, oh well, I think from now on i'll cancel my blood donation appointment anytime ANYONE in the family has been sick in the week prior (the questionnaire you fill out prior to donating blood asks "have you been sick or unwell in the last week" and rightly or wrongly I ticked no because I hadn't and had assumed the bug had gone - no such luck! I'll be back soon with a brighter post.
posted by Tania | 8:02 AM
5 Comments:
sorry to hear you've been sick and the family :( here's hoping you pick up again real soon...
take care
Anne
Oh no! Hope you feel better soon! And good for you for calling the Red Cross to let them know. I don't think I would have thought about that. But then again, I'm not allowed to donate blood cos I've lived in too many weird places.
Bugger about the concert, hoping you are feeling better now...
Oh Dear that is no good. I hope by now you are starting to feel a bit better.
Your poor thing it sounds terrible,pity about missing the concert and your other weekend activities.
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