I got hit with a stomach bug Thursday evening. Started around 8:00 with diarrhea every ten minutes and then I started vomiting around 10:00. Came out both ends for over three hours every ten minutes or so. Finally went to the ED as I was getting very dehydrated and weak.
I continued to put out for three hours while there. They gave me a medication that slowed it down but it didn’t stop. After three hours they gave me a shot which knocked me out and things slowed down.
I was in the ED for over four hours. Sent me home and I slept for eight hours straight. I was up for 15 minutes and slept for another four hours. Up for 5 minutes and slept again for four hours. I managed to sleep most all night last night too.
Still have a touch of diarrhea but the vomiting has stopped. I hate to throw up!
Jim is a good nurse. He reminds me to drink and fixed me some chicken noodle soup. I ate about ten spoonfuls of the broth.
I just ate a banana – my first food since Thursday night dinner. I’ll see if I can keep that down and will try to eat some more food later. I am a bit weak today but know my strength will come back quickly once I can start eating again.
The church where we were to get married a week from tomorrow has closed for three weeks and maybe longer. Sounds more and more like we need to cancel the public wedding ceremony and the receptions in both Strong City and Stillwater. The recommendation from the authorities is to self isolate as much as possible and hold no public gatherings.
We will make a backup plan today and will probably pull the plug on both the wedding and reception in Strong City. Maybe we will hold something later in the year when this crisis has passed. There are only a few confirmed cases in both KS and OK but there has been so little testing done who knows how many are really here. Most of the guests we invited for the wedding are over 60 and are in the higher risk group. I would hate to have them come to the wedding and someone be sick and get everyone else sick.
I’m sad and disappointed to have to make this decision. If we do cancel we will go to the preacher’s office or have her come to our house and marry us. We will find two people to stand in as witness and call it good.
I will have to contact the florist and both cake bakers on Monday and see if I can cancel and get back my money. I will need to cancel the photographer hotel rooms I reserved for the kids and siblings that were coming.
Life is always full of curve balls. This one is a big one! The impact on people’s lives is going to be hard for many. Cancelling a public wedding and reception and turning it into a private one is not a huge sacrifice compared to what others will be called to do.
I have been awake for over an hour this morning and am getting tired again. Time to go take a nap. Trusting the banana I ate will sit well and not start the cycle of throwing up again. I do feel better than I did earlier. Trusting I am over the worse of it and things will only improve from here. I do need to self isolate a bit as I am in a weakened state right now and am more susceptible to picking up another virus.
Stay well my friends! Celebrate with us in your hearts and someday soon we will join together for a public celebration.
Grateful for ED that are kind and compassionate, grateful for Jim’s care and love, and grateful for healing.
This is the most unselfish thing I have heard in a long time. Not surprising coming from you but special just the same. So glad you two are getting married. I felt so honored to get meet Jim and adored him the minute we met. You two are a perfect match period. There will plenty of time later for a big get together to celebrate your marriage but also the end of the pandemic (or whaterver they are calling it.).