26 December 2007

Breakfast: Healthy Choice_{® Cafe Steamers^TM
Chicken Margherita (White Meat Chicken Withy Angwel Hair Pasta &
Roasted Garlic In Balsamic Vinaigrette Sauce), a can of D.P., slice of
coffee cake and coffee.}

Lunch: A low fat strawberry yogurt, a very small amount of creamy cole slau and water.

Dinner: Leftovers:

• turkey,
• mashed potatoes (made with sour creamme!),
• dressing,
• gravy,

seconds of the above and

• pumpkin pie with low fat "Cool whip" and
• a coffee cup of White Zin with dinner!

I had thought of having eggnog with rum but from the way my stomach felt, I thought that would be a very bad idea.

It was...

Knowing that "Pink" (Pepto Bismol) prevented me from vomiting the last time I felt ill when going to bed, I drank a goodly slug of the stuff. It didn't have the usual rumbling effect however but I didn't worry about that. About an hour or so after getting to sleep, I started feeling the usual pre-symthoms:

• liquid coming up into my mouth and
• occasional coughing and
• finally, a feeling that I was going to "blow chunks" soon...

So, I did the inevitable. I went into the bathroom, stuck my finger down my throat once and the vomiting started! (That one throat tickle was good for three "up Charlies -er- "Chucks". I still didn't feel much better so I did the "tickle routine" one more time for one more "display"...

I sometimes wonder if the
uvula has any purpose other than to make it easier to vomit?

The amazing thing is how much liquid comes up. I have to think that my body is investing a lot of bodily fluids in digesting and it all goes down the toilet.

So, why don't I just drink some water?

Historically speaking, drinking water at night nearly always stuffs up my nose...

This is a bad thing.

Anyway, I felt a one-time-return to the sympthoms about an hour after "blowing chunks" but it quickly went away and I slept fine. Oddly enuf, I wasn't any more thirsty at 3:27 am (on the 27^th), when I made and drank my first coffee of the "new work day". (This cup of rather poorly made instant coffee was my first shot of liquids since before I'd gone to bed the night before...)

Here is a lovely quote from the wikipedia article:

Universal Emetic

Patients that suffer from bulimia nervosa, an eating disorder, tend to take the uvula to their advantage. Massaging the uvula causes the gag reflex to initate and expell stomach contents.* Massaging the uvula is the universal alternative to ipecac, but should not be practiced as it can result in damage to the lining of the esophagus and other long term health problems such as rotting of the teeth and gums.

"No shit, Sherlock?"

There is something about the way this photo was taken that reminds me of a different area of the body (in a manner of speaking). It reminds me of a so-called private part of a woman'.