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Well I suppose one day of not being in some way ill in the last month was all I could hope for. This morning I was all geared up to do my first Park Run for 5 weeks when I was hit by a sudden burst of what I will politely call a stomach upset (but was in fact explosive and watery diarrhoea). I felt otherwise fine, but decided I didn't want to risk a Paula Radcliffe and stayed home.
I managed to do some work in the morning as we were taking childcare in shifts, but then cleverly got a bit more poorly in the afternoon, so my session was mainly sitting by the fire whilst the kids watched TV and then occasionally making visits to the loo where things got messier and more painful.
A couple of times it was so bad that I thought I'd managed to poo myself inside out, but luckily my insides stayed inside, but I was hit with a ring of fire and my evening visit was so bad that my wife compared the sounds I was making to those in the maternity unit of a hospital. So I have to conclude that I was in as much pain as someone giving birth. And I didn't have the consolation of a lovely little baby after I'd finished. Though it the stinking liquid I had expelled had somehow formed itself into a new life I would have abandoned it on a hillside.
I don't understand what the lower half of my body has against me this year, but it seems determined to bring the upper half down by any means necessary. Even at significant pain and loss to itself.
Obviously hopeful that this isn't anything to do with the virus (and it's odd to be praying that you've got food poisoning) but maybe now is the best time too. The whole country is going into lockdown soon enough, so better to be ill during that, I suppose. We dropped out of our last possible pre-Christmas social gathering just in case, but maybe pre-Christmas social gatherings are a bit of dumb idea now.
But maybe Boxing Day is the day to get ill. Avoiding Omicron, as I am not the first person to point out, is this year's deadly Whamageddon!
I am assuming that no big work opportunity will be coming up in the last 2 weeks of 2021 so
I have updated the history section of this website in an entry that might be sub-headed - A bad year for bulbs.
