Bleeeurgh. I was feeling a little average last night and took myself off to bed early. Without going into any more detail, it seems I’ve caught a vomiting bug, and spent a good part of the rest of the night either trudging up and down the landing by the bathroom/toilet, or sitting on the cold tiles in said toilet, praying to the god of porcelain (except we have an old skool Caroma toilet which isn’t even porcelain).
A couple of good things: one – no-one else in my household has got it yet (touch wood) and two – my husband was able to take a sick day today to look after our little boy, because I feel so weak today I can barely pick myself up let alone his eight kilos of squirminess! I guess I should add a three – although I was hypo for a couple of hours at the start of the episode, I managed to boost my BGs up to early 4s before the vomiting began, unlike poor Aaron at the end of March.
I barely ever get sick, and I’m grateful for that. Whenever I’m sick though I always think back to those leaflets they give you when you’re first diagnosed about “sick days” and how your blood sugars will rise, so I kept a close eye on it. Surely enough, the results slowly crept up: 4.2, 5.7, 7.9, 11.4 (I corrected this one) and then by the time 7am came I was 16.6. Just what you don’t need on top of feeling lousy. I’m just super grateful I didn’t get vomiting in my pregnancy. That must be really hard to handle.
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Saffy wrote
Hope you’re better v soon!!
Nic wrote
Thanks Saffy, starting to feel a little better now… wow it was a pretty intense bug for a while there. I can’t believe how amazing the human body is. I rang Plunket re breastfeeding Hugo (didn’t want to pass it on) and they tell me that not only does the virus not pass through the breastmilk, the milk itself will actually carry antibodies to the virus so protect him from getting it. Incredible!!