I woke up this morning feeling a little bit… off. I thought to myself, jeez, I thought this nausea thing was past? I do still get some nausea in the mornings, but it goes away when I get some food settled in my stomach. So I ate some toast, drank some water. And promptly threw everything. back. up. Violently.

I nibbled a tiny bit after that, but my stomach was feeling worse, not better. A couple hours later I threw up again, but this time there wasn’t anything in my stomach.

And so it has gone all day long. My stomach hurts, literally. I have this oogy, rumbly, unpleasantly-turning-over kind of feeling in my stomach. I took a few hour nap, but soon as I got up, same thing as the morning. I really feel like crying a little bit in frustration – I have things to do, people to see, and I’m stuck in bed feeling miserable as hell. I get to see my parents once a year, and I’m totally out of commission today.

Far as I can tell this is just one of those stomach bugs, probably picked up during my flights two days ago. I am really hoping it’s just a 24-hour thing so I can get back to normal. My worry however is that today I haven’t even kept down water, which means tomorrow if I still can’t keep down water I’m going to end up in the hospital to get fluids – and that would really piss me off.

Son of a bitch.

Update: Next morning is here and I’m feeling bounds better. So far I’ve kept up the little that I’ve been brave enough to nibble on, and the gatorade and water. So it definitely seems to have been some kind of 24 hour bug.