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.