This whole being sick thing blows.
Some things about me: I am rarely ever “normal people sick.” Like yeah, I often feel like puking my guts out because I have gastrointestinal problems and a heart condition that causes all sorts of things in my body to be funky, but I hardly ever get sick with regular run of the mill bugs.
UNTIL NOW AND IMMA BE HONEST? FUCK THIS SHIT. WORST THING EVER.
my normal shit I can deal with. I can power through just fine. But not with this lol. I have a tiny low grade fever and feel like puking my guts up and I am WRECKED. And like... throwing up when you have a genuine tummy bug is so much worse for some reason. Like the entire experience is so much more vile and disgusting. A symptom of my chronic health problems is gastroparesis, meaning that my stomach is partially paralyzed and I have very delayed gastric emptying. So when I puke because of this, I’m puking because there’s food sitting in my belly that isn’t digesting one bit, and I end up barfing it back up and feel immensely better afterwards. Puking from stomach viruses is a whole different kind of hell. I don’t feel better after. I just feel sick and sticky and sweaty and wretched and disgusting. The taste is my mouth stays even longer, no matter how many times I try to rinse my mouth out. My belly keeps trying to empty itself even when I know it’s done, even when there’s nothing to throw up, even when it’s just a sip of water I’m trying to keep down. My whole body is on fire and I feel so so sick.
