The Ick and My Planner

Late last Friday night/early Saturday morning, I came down with what I'm assuming to be food poisoning. It was not pleasant. There was vomiting and fevers and all sorts of horribleness, of which I will spare you the details.

But what I do want to share is how my planner helped me out.

Yeah, that sounds weird, I know.
It will make sense, I promise.

Being as ill as I somehow managed to get, I had the weirdest fever that would come and go, and I wasn't really able to eat anything without feeling queasy.
I would take some ibuprofen, only to get hot/cold flashes and get super sweaty, while not feeling any better.

I have a hate/hate relationship with ibuprofen. It served me well for a few years, then it got too weak (so I would take more), then it ruined my stomach, and now my stomach is better (except for this bout of whatever I got!), but I still try and avoid it as much as possible.
So I was taking some these past few days, and logging it in my planner.
Because that's what you do, yes?

While it's not a medicine you can really outdo yourself with, it is one that I should mostly avoid. And keeping track of when I took it is helpful in that I can easily see that on Saturday I took some at 2 pm and at 11:30 pm - and did not feel any better for it.
This would be a much better example if it was something one had to take every x-amount of hours, but the premise still stands.

And eating? That wasn't even on the list of things to think about.
As in I wasn't hungry. At all. My gut was sore from vomiting, and my intestines were rather uncomfortable, but my actual stomach wasn't really affected or in pain.
Doesn't mean I get to not eat. But that also doesn't mean that I can eat. Because I couldn't.

So whatever I did manage to eat, I wrote that down. I managed to eat once on Saturday, twice on Sunday, and four times on Monday (a yogurt cup counts as a meal, yes?).
I also could tell you when and what exactly it was, but this is not as important.

The idea is that if I were to, say, not get better and need to go in to the doctor, I have all of this information.

If I was smart, I would own a thermometer and would have been keeping track of my temperatures as well, but I am apparently not a smart lady.

What I do know is that I feel much better having it all written out. It's good to feel "on top of things" even if you're stuck in bed, and it's good to see progress in feeling better. And it's good to know that if, for some reason, things went horribly, horribly wrong, I wouldn't have to be 100% mentally present at the doctor's office - having the ick turns me into a zombie...please tell me I'm not the only one!

~Havok

P.S. And yes, we are on the upswing of feeling much better than the past few days. Not 100% yet, but better!