Being sick as a child is a miserable thing. But being sick as a single adult is definitely more miserable. When you're a child, your mom or dad will be there to comfort you. When you're an adult and alone, the only one you have for comfort is God, and he tends not to be too physical with people (probably because they'd freak out).
Sometime yesterday I had some bad food, and my stomach decided to let me know at bedtime. Sometime after bedtime, actually.
I was lying there drifting into sleep when my stomach suddenly caught fire. At least that's what it felt like. I hurried into the bathroom, did some business and went back to bed. But my stomach still felt terrible. I went to the kitchen to get a pan since I thought I might vomit, and then lay on my bed stomach-down, my head hanging over the feet end, shuddering violently. I finally got warmed up enough to drift into an uneasy sleep with horrid recurring dreams of camera shopping. Then my stomach caught fire again, I went back into the bathroom, did some more business, and headed back for bed, this time with my head at the correct end of the bed. This repeated probably five or six times, with twenty to thirty minutes between each episode. Although I never threw up, upon returning to bed each time, I could taste something different that I'd eaten for lunch or supper. I think I finally fell solidly asleep sometime around two or three in the morning.
I still don't feel great, though I haven't vomitted and I haven't had diarrhea at all. Strong smells kind of set my stomach off a bit, and smells are pretty difficult to avoid in China, whether it's on the street, in the office or in the classroom. I had a very small bowl of cereal for breakfast, a small bowl of egg-fried rice for lunch, and I'm planning on a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for supper--nothing strong, and nothing big.
Hopefully tonight will be much better. I don't know what I'll do if it isn't.
Posted by at April 13, 2004 5:14 PMyikes. maybe a sanda break?
maybe you could ask God to do some unphysical prevention, like protect you from unwittingly buying/eating bad food. you know how sometimes when your alarm clock is broken and you really need to get up on time and so you pray and he wakes you up.