Friday the 13th, 2021
How you all doin? I am feeling much better today but not perfect after a sudden and unknown sickness on Wednesday.
I got really bad stomach ache and kinda crampy lower abdomen on Wednesday afternoon. At first I wondered if it was the beginning of a first period after birth (which seemed unlikely since they say normally it’s after 6 months PP if you’re breastfeeding exclusively). Then it got so painful I couldn’t hold my tears back – and I can tolerate a lot of pain. It was so horrible that I gladly take childbirth again (and I gave birth without any pain meds). Eventually I started to throw up. For three hours. I hadn’t eaten much that day so I really had nothing coming out of me, it was exhausting. Then I felt good enough to feed Lily before her bedtime (J gave her a bottle of formula when I felt the worst). Yesterday I felt ok to eat and I tried to drink lots of water, but my tummy felt like it had been run over by a monster truck and I was really tired. Today is way better, I took L for a walk this morning and I am even drinking coffee. But I still feel kinda blah and need to take it easy for a few days. The storm Fred is apparently hitting us this weekend so we don’t have any plans to go anywhere anyway.
I really don’t know what this was. Why was I throwing up for only 3 hours? Why throwing up at all? Could it have been a “mild” food poisoning from the rice and veggie bowl I ate from Taco Bell the night before? Thought for a sec that it could be a stomach bug that I somehow got from our shopping at Target the day before (but that seems unlikely since I wash my hands a million times a day and practice good hygiene). What I really think it is… my body is giving me sings that it’s time to take care of myself. My body has been angry with me for quite some time now and I need to start to listen.