stephanie is: 
ugh…
i have been having bouts of nausea and diarrhea for over a week. it started two days before my period, so i thought it was period related. period started exactly on time, was 7 days as usual, and was as heavy as usual. taking a pepto bismol tab with a small meal worked about 60% of the time. i’ve only been eating once a day though.
yesterday i only ate pea soup, hot cocoa, and about 10 potato chips. about 40 minutes after i got in bed i started to have hunger pains. within 5 mins it had changed to severe nausea. i had no pepto left and had to wait it out (i have a mental block about puking and can’t seem to make myself when i feel i need to.). i had taken a benedryl for my allergies and couldn’t stay awake. i dreamt i was puking non-stop till i woke up 45 mins later feeling a bit better. i felt fine for the rest of my sleep and woke up from a dream of cuddling with my boy and 2 dalmation puppies.
spent a couple hours after i got up getting ready for errands – packages for delivery, checks for the bank, papers for the vet, showering… i was shaking and had a single hard candy. my first stop was the pobox to pickup packages and a paycheck and ship out packages. it was taking a looong time for them to prepare my shipping stuff and about 15 mins in i got super pukey. i was about to look for the nearest garbage can. i was shaking and my heart was racing. i paid and went next door to the drug store for pepto and tums. luckily it was a short line and i was taking the meds on my way out the door.
i tried to gather myself together in the car. i was supposed to go to the bank, the vet, and buy danny some food. but i just couldn’t – i was feeling worse and worse and headed home gritting my teeth and breathing slow. once home, i headed for the bathroom and stayed there a long time, unable to puke but unable to feel better. when i felt i could walk i made it upstairs to this chair with a glass of water and a tupperware bowl.
danny has been up for nearly 24-hours and is rebuilding the mail server. every time i feel sick i feel like i am being a bother to him. but i asked if he could look up a doctor and make me an appointment (we just got on a new plan – keep having to change). he tried but everyone was busy for the next week.
the nausea is getting a bit better finally – either passing or the meds are working. i am afraid to eat anything. i think danny is mad that i didn’t do something about this when it started, but i had thought it was beacuse of my period. but now period has just ended and this is getting worse.
our mail server is once again being rebuilt due to hardware problems, so to contact me, im at punquin or email stephanie at serve-you.net.
ugh.