by Carolyn Thomas ♥ @HeartSisters
This morning was an actual milestone for me. For the primary time in over every week, I used to be capable of get off the bed and gown myself.
A dreadful bout of viral gastroenteritis has left me in mattress, barely capable of sit up or stroll or do a lot of something. The relentless vomiting and nausea has now stopped, the fever has eased, however the residual fall-out remains to be a double-whammy of persistent muscle ache and all-over shaky-sweaty weak spot. And I’ve discovered greater than I ever needed to know concerning the assorted viruses liable for what we used to name “abdomen flu”.
So not surprisingly – no Sunday morning Coronary heart Sisters submit at the moment. I’m grateful for household, mates and neighbours shut by for recurrently checking in and dropping off no matter meals I’ve been capable of maintain down. We even had a quick balcony go to this week on little Zachary’s third birthday (me up right here, he and his dad and mom on the garden beneath). A lot of credible sources quoted a variety of probably recuperation instances – from 1-2 days to 1-2 weeks, relying on the affected person and on the kind of virus).
In the meantime, please get pleasure from a chocolate egg this weekend for me.
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