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So, yesterday at the beach I woke up sick again, after having rice, bananas, and several bites of cantaloupe, and two different kinds of ginger ale.
Once I got my appetite back, I had more rice crackers, then I ate the gratin we made last week for dinner (a very small piece).
Today I woke up fine, except I didn't really have an appetite. Then I ate some more rice crackers (good thing I like them) and have been drinking water and doing laundry. (I also typed up my notes into a spreadsheet so the doctor won't have to deal with my handwriting next week. I should also type up as much of a history of this thing as I can remember, including the night I went to Sage with A and ended up getting my food to go. Which was back in April I think.)
I'm getting hungry, but I don't know what I can/should eat. There's plenty of food in the house; I have no idea what's going to make me sick tomorrow, or even if it's related to food AT ALL. The blood panels should come back sometime this week, hopefully sooner than later. (I asked my friend K, who works at LabCorp, and he said the test takes a day to run, but they wait until they get enough samples to run a kit, which is why it takes 4-5 days to get the test done.)
It's disheartening, because I have days like Saturday and today, where I'm fine, and I don't feel sick, and I can go about my normal business, then there's Thursday, Friday, and Sunday, where I'm awful in the morning and fine in the afternoon. There's a pilates class I want to take at the yoga studio up the street. It's at 9 am Tues/Thurs, or 10:30 Fri. Today I could make it, but I have no idea about tomorrow.
There's a huge anxiety component with this thing.
I'm also getting irritated with expressions of sympathy that compare it to some self-limiting illness they had this one time. My instincts (all pessimistic, naturally) are telling me this is going to be a PERMANENT issue now, and I'm going to have to make a lot of changes. [The friend who had cancer and talked about how radiation and chemo gave her horrible n/v/d? I think she understands.] Yes, I'm glad you're expressing sympathy. Comparing this whatever that's been going on for two months now to the time you got the stomach "flu" and felt bad for a week? Or had food poisoning? Kind of misses the point.
This is like food poisoning or viral gastroenteritis (influenza viruses do not infect the GI tract; yes, I'm an infectious disease nerd) that hits repeatedly, and almost daily, gives the slimmest hope by the end of the day that tomorrow will be normal again, then cruelly shreds that hope.
Once I got my appetite back, I had more rice crackers, then I ate the gratin we made last week for dinner (a very small piece).
Today I woke up fine, except I didn't really have an appetite. Then I ate some more rice crackers (good thing I like them) and have been drinking water and doing laundry. (I also typed up my notes into a spreadsheet so the doctor won't have to deal with my handwriting next week. I should also type up as much of a history of this thing as I can remember, including the night I went to Sage with A and ended up getting my food to go. Which was back in April I think.)
I'm getting hungry, but I don't know what I can/should eat. There's plenty of food in the house; I have no idea what's going to make me sick tomorrow, or even if it's related to food AT ALL. The blood panels should come back sometime this week, hopefully sooner than later. (I asked my friend K, who works at LabCorp, and he said the test takes a day to run, but they wait until they get enough samples to run a kit, which is why it takes 4-5 days to get the test done.)
It's disheartening, because I have days like Saturday and today, where I'm fine, and I don't feel sick, and I can go about my normal business, then there's Thursday, Friday, and Sunday, where I'm awful in the morning and fine in the afternoon. There's a pilates class I want to take at the yoga studio up the street. It's at 9 am Tues/Thurs, or 10:30 Fri. Today I could make it, but I have no idea about tomorrow.
There's a huge anxiety component with this thing.
I'm also getting irritated with expressions of sympathy that compare it to some self-limiting illness they had this one time. My instincts (all pessimistic, naturally) are telling me this is going to be a PERMANENT issue now, and I'm going to have to make a lot of changes. [The friend who had cancer and talked about how radiation and chemo gave her horrible n/v/d? I think she understands.] Yes, I'm glad you're expressing sympathy. Comparing this whatever that's been going on for two months now to the time you got the stomach "flu" and felt bad for a week? Or had food poisoning? Kind of misses the point.
This is like food poisoning or viral gastroenteritis (influenza viruses do not infect the GI tract; yes, I'm an infectious disease nerd) that hits repeatedly, and almost daily, gives the slimmest hope by the end of the day that tomorrow will be normal again, then cruelly shreds that hope.
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Date: 2010-08-17 10:43 am (UTC)From:You're eating what I usually call the "sick diet." My personal sick diet is: absolutely NOTHING raw, mostly steamed white rice, nothing sweet(no desserts, no honey, no fruit) and forget about dairy.
Being Japanese, maybe I can help you add some variety to your rice diet, seeing as to how we moonies eat rice 3/24/7/52.
Okayu: Rice Porridge. Just use a little too much water and cook the rice a little longer. For flavoring, add some bonito fish flakes, grated ginger, green onions. I forget, do you eat eggs? If you can, add a little bit of boiled egg for extra protein and flavor.
Mochi: Rice Cakes. Roast these in a skillet with a little bit of soy sauce. Wrap with seaweed. Chew very carefully.
Chazuke: Take regular steamed rice, maybe rice that's a little itty bit stale. Add a little bit of wasabi, furikake and douse with green tea. Mix. Eat. Be happy.
Vegan Chirashi-sushi: Make sushi rice(use 4/5 the water, after it's done cooking, add 1/5th the water's worth of sushi vinegar, mix rice vigorously.) Add thin, steamed shiitake slices, thin carrot slices, green peas, sesasme seeds, thin bits of seaweed.
I make it vegan if I'm sick, if I'm my usual happy healthy self, I add steamed shrimpiess, minced tamago-yaki, raw snow pea slices and maybe some teriyaki-ish roasted fish bits.
Do you have like, O157 ecoli or something?
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Date: 2010-08-17 01:52 pm (UTC)From:I probably don't have O:157; I don't have the right set of symptoms, and I'd probably be dead by now.
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Date: 2010-08-17 02:57 pm (UTC)From:I guess you can use sea salt for a soy sauce substitute. I know it's blasphemy but hey, when you're sick, you're sick.
Hope you find out what the hell is going on...
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Date: 2010-08-17 03:38 pm (UTC)From:I have gluten-free veggie broth, which I can use for flavor, and I really want to try this. Rice cookers are awesome tools!
I have a GI appointment in 6 days, and the food allergy/celiac results should be back by the end of this week. It may not even be GI; it could be nasty endometriosis (which makes sense with timing issues, since I've been on my period since just after this latest bout started (yes, like 10 or 11 days now. I have hell periods.)).