I was home sick again on Monday, March 8.

First of all, WTH? is up with all the sick lately?

Anyways, I hung around at home, on the sofa, watching Angel on DVD and knitting.

I made a baby slipper, which took about an hour, but I wasn’t in the mood to knit its pair right away. I’ll probably do that this evening.

I made a hat out of some chunky yarn that I’ve had for ages. I was about to start on a matching scarf, but I couldn’t decide on a stitch pattern that appealed to me, so I set that aside.

I got about 75% of the way through a wrist warmer made from Bernat Jacquard in Geranium.

Pattern: Bernat – Wrist Warmers

Swatch: Bernat Jacquard – Geranium

I’m hoping to finish it and make its pair tonight. It’s a really quick knit, because the yarn is medium weight, unlike the other wrist warmer/fingerless glove patterns that I favour which take days because they are made out of sock yarn. Obviously, this will not be a summer weight accessory, but I can wear them outdoors in the spring and fall, and in the winter sometimes the indoor temperatures are cool enough to warrant them.

I’ll post pictures of the finished projects soon. Actually, not of the hat and scarf, I am planning to give those to someone for Christmas, and I don’t want to ruin the surprise for them.

This is a post about vomit and vomiting, so don’t read it if that grosses you out.

YOU

HAVE

BEEN

WARNED

There DEFINITELY is such a thing as “throwing up a little bit.” I know this because I threw up A LITTLE BIT in the middle of the night two weeks ago on Wednesday, and I threw up A LOT last evening.

Last evening, without a doubt, ends my streak of not being REALLY sick enough to throw up in years. Let me qualify that I am not counting any time that I ate or drank something that caused me to vomit – like really greasy food or a little too much alcohol. Let me also qualify that on occasion I have FELT sick, and needed to throw up, but have usually had to resort to enducing vomiting, for example by going for a car ride – motion sickness added to regular nausea usually does the trick for me.

Last evening was the first time in a long time that I spontaneously threw up, multiple times, until I finally emptied my stomach.

It all started off as a little headache that I noticed when I got back to my desk after lunch. I didn’t have any Tylenols or Advils with me, and it wasn’t a terrible headache so I ignored it. After work, I went straight to the laundromat, and I still had a headache but it wasn’t debilitating, so I ignored it. When I got home from the laundromat, Jason and I started to play a game on our good ole PS2. About 15 minutes into the game, I started to feel what I attributed as motion sickness. So, I turned off the game, and took a couple of Tylenols for the headache – which had gotten bad enough that I couldn’t ignore it any more.

What followed was the worst 2 hours of the last decade (rough estimate) – excepting the time I got car sick on the ride up to our Girl’s weekend in the mountains last January [edit - not last January, actually, it was in January 2007] and I threw up on the side of the road, and then suffered from motion sickness the entire rest of the ride up and residual effects the entire weekend.

By 7:30 PM, I had been resting on the sofa for almost 30 minutes, I had eaten two slices of dry toast – because despite all the nausea, I was starving – and drank a glass of 7-Up watered down with Club Soda. I was still feeling awful, but everything stayed down until I went to bed at 9:00 PM intending to read for a bit. I was so exhausted, I fell alseep right away, and slept until my alarm went off at 6:15 AM.

I came into work today, determined to be feeling better, but if I get even the slightest twinge of a headache or nausea, I am going straight home. I do not want to go through ALL THAT again, especially not in the shared bathroom here at work.