Sickness
October 17th 2002 -
Sick
I’d been copping the odd stomach cramp through the weekend and on Monday, but on Tuesday morning everything decided to cut loose and announce “You’ve got a stomach bug, buddy!”. After a particularly gut-wrenching session on the toilet I could feel my vision fading away, and instantly thought of Ted’s shower incident. But I held on, and after sitting in a doctor’s waiting room for an hour, had it confirmed: you’ve got the bug that’s going around.
A big day off for Tuesday, then. I lay around in bed reading “No Logo” and comfort magazines, then watched “Fellowship of the Rings” again and played a bit of “Red Faction”. I mention this purely because it so greatly resembled how I used to spend my time when I was unemployed.
rec.arts.drwho.moderated
The admin for thecabal.org has been having trouble getting some of the news software going, in order to get radwm off the ground. So he passed it on to me – apparently there’s some kind of bug in the C code. I can’t believe that we still haven’t got the thing working yet.
No sugar
When I went to the Doctor, he mentioned that killing off the stomach bacteria would mean not having any sugar or milk products for a bit. Dave and Fiona went on an interesting diet earlier in the year, one in which they couldn’t have sugar or dairy, which was taken to the extreme of no fruit (because it had sugars in it) and no bread for some reason. I don’t remember, there seemed like a lot to it. I remember that meat was allowed. Anyway, I figured: what an excellent time to start something similar! So as of Tuesday morning I’ve been on a no-sugar, no-dairy diet. Actually, diet is the wrong word. I just want to see if I get sugar cravings. I’m curious as to the strength of my dependency on chocolate and coke. I’m not particularly serious about it, so I’m just cutting out obviously sweet things. I’m sure I get some sugar and dairy in peanut-butter and bread.
Anyway, this is day 3.