Not good

[Georgie]

A moment of personal privilege, please. Yesterday was the first day of school and I was doing fine with my 24 eight-year-olds until about 10:30 when I was hit with a stomach virus! Somehow I managed to make it to the end of the day (and nothing is easy on the first day...no routines in place, no real lessons underway, don't ask), dragged my sorry self home and went straight to bed. Stayed in bed from 4:15 yesterday afternoon until 5:30 this morning, only getting up to do one of two things. I called out today...you can imagine how thrilled my principal is....this is no way to start a school year....any home remedies would be welcome!

[This message has been edited by Georgie (edited 09-04-2003).]

[Innkeeper]

Only one I know is time. Most of these are the 24 hour variety.

[Bucko]

Push Gatorade until you feel like your eyeballs are floating. Don't drink soda or soup, etc. -- not balanced in osmols and can cause worsening symptoms. Avoid dairy for 24-48 hours.

[Georgie]

Thank you, Doc. I was kind of hoping you'd be around. I'd have never thought of Gatorade.

[wondersofwine]

You must have dined the same places as Regis and Kelly. She blames it on the calamari I think it was, and he blames it on carrots at his sister-in-law's house.

[hotwine]

Sympathies, Georgie. Been there. Came down with amoebic dysentery on the day before a major attack in '68 (Op. Pegasus), to lift the siege of the Marines at Khe Sahn. 5,000 of us had the same problem. Ran out of TP, Playboy magazines, letters from home, and all other paper products by noon and spent the afternoon and night in total misery. And launched the attack on two NVA divisions at dawn. Those who had survived horrendous bombardment from supporting B-52 Arc Light missions fled back across the border at the smell of our approach.

If your class stayed put, you did OK. Hang in there.

[Bucko]

Uhhhh..... thanks for sharing that, Gil.... GASP! [img]http://www.wines.com/ubb2/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]http://www.wines.com/ubb2/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]http://www.wines.com/ubb2/biggrin.gif[/img]

[Thomas]

To add wine to a similar experience, hotwine, I got amoebic dysentary while living in Tehran in the seventies. Lost 23 pounds inside of ten days before they figured out what to do with me, which was first to feed me iv, and then to get a drug in me to kill the one-celled Devil. Took years to get over it.

Oh yeah, the wine part of the story: I got the dysentary while scouring the countryside looking for modern Iranian wines (many of which were quite good then) and ancient wine sites. The dysentary was the result of a combination of me not being careful with meat and them not being careful with sanitizing...

[Georgie]

Oi,vai, I can't imagine feeling like this for an extended period of time, or having to do anything more strenuous than sleep. I love how you told the tale, Hotise. I think I'd have just fallen on my own bayonet and gotten it over with!

[winedope1]

Sorry you're feeling poorly, Georgie. Wishes for a speedy recovery!! If my patients have symptoms like that they are put on a bland diet of boiled rice and boiled hamburger or rice and boiled chicken. when I traveled to Egypt I was thr only one of 2 dozen people who didn't get these symptoms. I had been forewarned by relatives not to eat meat or anything from the street vendors. So for 3 weeks I ate all veggies and drank bottled water only. Hope all goes well Georgie. I'll be thinking of you! WD

[hotwine]

Took over 20 years for me, too, Foodster, with relapses 3-4 times each year until early '90's. Some got real interesting, but not exactly normal conversation material. Problem was caused by filling our canteens with untreated paddy water, not knowing our engineers' water purification plant had been sabotaged overnight. If you ever saw villagers taking their morning constitutional en masse along the paddy dikes, you know what that water was like.

Falling on bayonet was not an option, Georgie. Attack!

[Bucko]

I think Georgie is playing hooky so that she can watch the football kickoff tonight. [img]http://www.wines.com/ubb2/rolleyes.gif[/img] [img]http://www.wines.com/ubb2/rolleyes.gif[/img] [img]http://www.wines.com/ubb2/rolleyes.gif[/img]

[Georgie]

For a baseball game? Maybe. But never for football. Sorry. Thank you one and all for your good wishes. It's 10:45 and I am feeling much more human, thank you. I shall wage my own attack on the littles in the am!

[Thomas]

Well hotwine, at the Glenora gathering in May you and I will have to walk off to talk about our "running" days...

[wondersofwine]

My episode was from escargots in Strasbourg (I think--there was also a stomach virus going around in Heidelberg so I may have caught the germs from another person--not the food). I love snails in garlic butter but they occasionally are hosts to parasites that aren't beneficial to humans.

[hotwine]

The further from civilized folks, the better, Foodie.

W-o-w, I'm also a big fan of snails in garlic butter. Used to get the "petit gris" at four dozen to the can at the French PX outside Kaiserslautern and devour a full can's worth on a Sunday afternoon with a bottle of FF10 Bordeaux. And a loaf of French bread, of course. Never had a problem with them. Must have been my blind, stupid luck to have dodged the parasite... sure couldn't have been skill and cunning.

[winoweenie]

Georgie,dear teach, So sorry to heat you were incapacitated whilst CB and I were frolicking around like 19 year old bums. Hope all is well now. Won't recount my joust with the nasty lil' bugs. WW

[Georgie]

Thanks so much! All is well and I'm whipping those little gremlins into shape!

[Bucko]

Did you get my bill yet? [img]http://www.wines.com/ubb2/biggrin.gif[/img]