I knew I shouldn't have been so upbeat last post! A presumed intestinal virus has attacked me. In fact, according to my journal, it attacked the next day after the last post. All of my friends have had some variety of this before I did. For most it resolved in days, maybe a week max. For some, vomiting accompanied the diarrhea in the first days; for me, no vomiting.
With my compromised immune system I am now entering the second week of it. A call to my regular physician's nurse informed me that as much as two weeks of it is not unusual. For the most part I can engage in daily activities but the condition lurks and is persisting. Moreover, the major symptom between attacks of diarrhea is gas-induced cramps. You might correctly guess that a lusty, corrective fart is not in the cards. And then when one races to the toilet and sits, the cramp has gone--only to reappear when one lies back flat in bed. (TMI dude!)
As you might guess, my workouts are in the toilet--pun intended, and I have cut out eating out with my buds for awhile. Hopefully, this will resolve by the next time I post.
I am wondering whether this is a silent epidemic?
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