Sunday, May 25, 2008

Ugg...M sick of it

Today was wonderful. I feel sick. :( i know all of u know how lousy it is to fall sick, but i'll tell you my view on it anyway.they do say, share your sorrow, it'll become less--so here SHARE WITH ME;
To start things off, there's this nauseating feeling, associated with severe distention(thats what a balloon is when u fill it up)...how they co-exist within the same body i'll never figure out. you cant do much, all you really do is lie around going...uhhhh....m not feeling welllllll.....it gets u the attention just like the squeaking hinge.

you cant eat anything nice, but thats not that bad part, coz with the nausea u dont feel like eating, the whole though of food is full repulsive.If you have loose bowels then you are all set, make a dash for the closest available loo, and when u are out, and think u can finally rest that aching back, owing to the fatigue and lack of food intake, and u have to run back to that same available loo.

the nights are the worst...u keep twisting and turning in your bed, and then you're so groggy and u still want to visit your new favorite place in the world, so you are like a person far from sobriety reaching for the lights; and thats if u are lucky to have the time to reach for the lights. Otherwise u're just running hell for leather for the aforementioned place.

but given time and medication(fully supervised) things get better. m now feeling better though, therefore this post :D so its just a matter of time till u are able to recount to others the sorry and kinda disgusting tale to everyone else.


but sometimes some of these are just preludes to more major illnesses. we always hope that we are lucky enough not to be infected by any of those. i recall something my dad said to describe life and illness inducing germs. (i dont remember it verbatim, but its something along the lines of-)
"We walk on a path that is surrounded on both sides by virulent and dangerous bacteria and other illness causing agents, we are lucky if we get through without too many scratches"

i suppose falling sick is part of life as my mum put it, and the best way to deal with any of them is to laugh it away. they do say "Laughter is the best medicine". my sister helps me laugh whenever i am unwell :)

anyway...now i well. so i must get back to my books....I HAVE A FRIGGIN EXAM in 2 days!
i'll leave u with this thought:

"Those people who feel time heals everything, have not sat it out in the doctors waiting room"

-(i dont know who said this)

2 comments:

Siddharth a.k.a. Plasmabhai said...

well abt the bacteria part......being a microbiologist myself i can attest the truthfulness of that statement (not that i ever doubted ur dad!!!).....in fact every square centimeter of ur skin has around 10^5 bacteria......when u bathe the number decreases my 95% which still leaves about 10000 bacteria per sq cm....and u have a total surface area stretching into some sq meters and we have left the armpits and groins where the density is higher.... so being an engineer u can definitely calculate and get an idea of the actual number and its enormousness.....thats the no. of bacterial on ur body....and i havent even started anything abt the no. of bacteria INSIDE the body which is to the tune of 10^11 per ml of fluid in the intestine!!!! and u know the no. of Shigella (thats a bacteria) required to cause Shigellosis (thats the disease thats makes u a flatulent pachyderm) a measly 10 !!!

BUDDY..... u are indeed lucky to escape without a scratch !!!

Nikhil said...

wow, thats a lot of bacteria. seriously if it wasnt for our immunity system, we'd be goners!

makes u wonder...what must be the life of an HIV+ patient. Scary.