I hate being sick

Mar 09

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Hey readers!

Sorry I didn’t post like expected last week, especially my favorite links like I wanted to get started.  Unforunately I have had the stomach flu and have probably spent more time in the bathroom over the past week than I have with my computer.

It all kind of started on Monday.  My stomach felt uneasy most of Monday but I figured it was due to tight jeans and thought nothing of it.  By Monday night I could tell I was catching something and went to bed around 9:30pm (I normally never go to bed before 11pm).  I woke up around 11:30pm with some wicked heartburn.  It seemed to be from my typical Monday night pizza which is not uncommon when they put a ton of sauce on the pizza, but they didn’t do that this time.  There was actually very little sauce so I found it a bit odd.  Like usual, I popped some tums and hoped they would work.  When they didn’t work, I tried some more which still didn’t work, so I tried some acid medication I have which still had no effect and even took a swig of the pink stuff with still no effect.  I ended up awake all night and miserable with some of the worst heartburn ever.  Over the next 24 hours it would go away, but when I “woke up” Tuesday morning, I found myself with a major case of the craps.  Those in turn were about every 15-20 minutes or so for a couple of days until they finally slowed to once an hour and then only in the mornings and as of Sunday, to nothing.  Unfortunately it didn’t end there.

On Since Thursday, something strange has been going on with my esophagus.  Everytime I swallow anything, whether its water or food, it feels like I am being stabbed in the chest.  It makes it near impossible to eat or drink anything without the thought of jumping off a bridge first.  On Friday, I went to the doctor with this being my primary complaint.  I can live with the occasional case of the craps, but not with this.  The doctor seemed to think it was maybe an irritation caused by some vomiting that I did on Wednesday (I forgot to mention that).  He gave me a prescription for some stuff that is supposed to coat my esophagus so I can eat and drink without a problem.  Sounded like a great idea, except the stuff doesnt seem to work at all.  Now my stomach feels unconfortable when I swallow something, on top of the pain I am experiencing with my esophagus.  So now I am headed back into the doctor at 1:45pm today to either get some other medicine or try to find out what is actually wrong with me.  I’m praying its nothing serious.

At this point, I just want to be well again.  Although I am there today, I missed work last week for everybody but Monday when this all slowly started.  Feeling like this and not being able to make money is not a fun thing.  Hopefully this will end soon as I want to get back into the swing of things.  With the exception  my Battlestar Galactica Live Blog, I have done almost nothing else online over the past week other than the occasional tweet.  No podcasts or anything.  I haven’t even listened to but one or two podcasts so I am very far behind on them.  I am working on getting the podcasts up that we have already recorded but I never got around to putting up.  I just put one up and am about to begin editing on the second.  You can find those at GlobalGeekNews.com

Anyway, that is all from me for now.  I will likely post more soon as I feel like it.

-Jeremy “pcnerd37″ Bray