Sick

I was not able to post last night because I decided to go to bed as early as Zach would let me.  I had been feeling a bit "off" health-wise the last few days and wanted to try to fight off whatever it is that I am catching.  Unfortunately, I lost that battle.

I felt pretty miserable when I crawled into bed, only to hear loud music (i.e. a live band) and kids running around and yelling outside my window.  At 10 pm, I thought this was a little obnoxious, but the Marshallese stay up quite late so in the spirit of embracing cultural differences I didn't dwell on it.  At 11 pm, I was starting to get ticked off.  By 2 am I had accepted that my "good night's sleep" was not going to happen. 

Once the music finally died down, my stomach decided it was its turn to keep me awake.  After a day and a half of doing my best to keep it calm and settled, I found myself puking my guts out.  When I was finally able to sleep, I tossed and turned due to the firmness (or lack thereof) of the mattress and the all-consuming body aches. 

When Zach woke up this morning, I wasn't sure how I was going to get through the day.  I could barely stand, let alone hold him and pace with him (which he requires now), I had 9 bottles to wash and only one clean one, my body ached and I wanted to get in the hot shower, and I was weak and dehydrated from not having eaten since lunch yesterday.  Somehow I made it through and got everything done while managing Zach at the same time. 

By later this evening I decided it was time to eat, having only managed sips of liquids during the day.  I had a few bites of plain white rice and some jello.  This all stayed down, so I thought it was reasonable to try to take some Advil to ease the body aches.  Luckily this stayed down too, and the aches feel a lot better.

Zach is already in bed, there is no band outside my window, and I am going to sleep on the other bed which has a firmer mattress.  Fingers cross that I feel better in the morning.