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7:14pm May 13, 2014

➸ Wow that was a close call.

feliscorvus:

youneedacat:

Started feeling extremely lousy and nauseated, to the point where even with all my emetophobia-induced coping skills I wasn’t sure I’d be able to hold down my stomach fluid. We drained out my g-tube and got about 3 cups of fluid out. No wonder.

It still never fails to surprise me how much stomach…

Gah, glad you were able to avoid actual barfage. I was actually wondering if you might have the flu, vs., a cold, because apparently Influenza B is hitting the Northeast pretty hard right now. Weirdly late in the season. I guess it’s the “other” flu, not the A-type/swine-flu thing that more people were getting in the winter. And vaccines help a lot but obviously some people still catch the virus, though they are more likely to get a milder version thankfully.

Re. the tube thing, thankfully the “can’t burp, but full of air and feeling horrible” thing doesn’t happen that often these days. But when it does, yeah, I can definitely understand how having an extra valve attachment would be awesome. I’ve sort of figured out how to push on parts of my abdomen to make the air move down, rather than up, and (tmi) I don’t have any problems, er, venting from the other end. :P

This definitely feels more like a cold than the flu.  It’s mostly just sniffles and feeling a bit lousy, with a sore throat.  I’ve had some coughing but mostly from post-nasal drip, it doesn’t feel centered on my lungs.  And it smells like a cold.  (I can often smell a cold on myself or on other people, I can’t describe the smell other than it smells like something diffused in the air, very specific.)

The stomach stuff is related to my obnoxious habit (whenever I fast and it throws off my food cravings) of chewing on caramels.  Which stirs up stomach fluids like whoa.  I wish I could chew on something umami, but caramels get digested quickly, umami foods do not.