On Sunday I was horrifically sick :) When I got up in the morning everything was fine, but by about 3pm I was feeling pretty rotten. From then on I was vomiting roughly every 2 hours for about 12 hours. On Monday morning I was supposed to start work at 6am on my new shift system, but luckily I have amazing room-mates who offered to work for me if I needed them to and as I still felt sort of awful at 5.30am I woke one of them up and asked if she could work my morning shift for me. My next shift starts at 2pm so I went back to sleep, thinking that if I don't throw up before that shift I won't have been sick for 12 hours so if I felt better I was planning to be to work (I was brought up that if you are there to do something, unless you are dying, you do it! Except for school. School is compulsory so I tried to get out of going to that. A lot.).
Anyway I get up at 12.30 planning to have a bath then maybe try and drink some water, still not entirely trusting my stomach to hold down solid food, and go to work. I see one of my room-mates as I'm leaving the bedroom and she tells me I have to go back to bed as the volunteer manager has got another volunteer to replace me for that day and maybe also the next. I feel I could go back to work that day, but maybe it's a good idea for me not to. I go and sit in the kitchen for a bit when I get a call from the volunteer manager who tells me off for being out of bed but says she appreciates me wanting to go back to work and if I take the day off (and spend it in bed) then I can work the next day providing I'm better of course!
So I spent a long day yesterday in bed watching films on my laptop. I have discovered although my bunk-bed is useful for many unexpected things, watching films with a friend, it is hopeless at. You can't sit upright to watch so you have to lie down, but because the bed is unnaturally narrow, it's a bit of a squeeze. But I'm working on developing a laptop hammock so I can hang my computer of the bed to watch movies! In my head, it's an awesome plan that works really well and my laptop will never fall out of it. In reality it will either break the laptop or my face!
Aww, being sick when away from home is the worst. I remember that from my college days. That's when you miss your parents the most! Sounds like you've got great roommates though, and that you are on the mend!
ReplyDeleteAnd a laptop hammock - great idea. Maybe you can sell those once you've figured it all out! Would be a great selling item at a university!