Monday last week of dig

Oh my faithful fans...you may have noticed that I did not blog yesterday, trust me there is a good reason.

The last 36 hours have been...well at the very least rough. I left you as we were going to dinner Saturday, we got in the bus and I was feeling a little sick to my stomach. We landed on going to dinner at a coffee shop that also served sandwiches and pasta and I ordered some linguini and lemonade. I wasn't feeling well and Tommy (he's one of the area supervisor's) suggested that I go and put some cool water on my face which I did. That didn't really help much and I was feeling dizzy and sick to my stomach. We cut dinner short (everyone got to eat, well not me, but we didn't stick around) and they brought me back.

I will spare you the terrible details of my sickness but for the next twelve hours it was bad news and poor Mari had to take care of me. She's seen me like no one except my family has before, but she was lovely and caring. At 6 in the morning she went and found Tommy who brought me Immodium and cooked me up an electrolyte compound of boiled water, lemonade, strawberry banana juice and salt. It was so gross, but I tried to get some down.

To mix things up, Sunday is the day they clean and so we were kicked out of our place at 7:45 am and I sat on a bench waiting with Tommy while everyone else went out for coffee.

When Tommy and Greg's room was clean I went in to lay down and thankfully stopped getting sick about that time. I mostly slept for the next 5 hours while Tommy worked on his PhD proposal. As a second kicker, we were supposed to change rooms, because so many people left. So Mari, Eva and Nick moved all of our stuff and also brought me back some (almost) pedialite type stuff, which was gross but not quite as bad as the other. At 1pm Sunday I ate part of a peice of dry bread and then slept again until about 3:30pm.

Then Mari and Eva came to take me down to our new apartment. It wore me out just walking a few hundred feet and I slept on an off until about dinner time. Mari and Eva had gotten me some pretzals and taken some peanut butter from the office and I ate two peanut butter pretzals, about all I could handle. I didn't go to dinner but they brought me back some bread and white peaches. I ate one of the peaches and drank a little water and then fell back asleep for the night about 8:30 or 9pm. I slept through the girls getting up for work this morning and woke up at 9 am feeling mostly normal and very hungry.

I ate a peach and several peanut butter pretzals and then felt a distinct desire to get out of bed. So I came up to the office to blog about my crappy 36 hours (haha...no pun intended). At any rate...what a bad day. I'm hoping to take it easy today and be back to work tomorrow.

It is not fun being sick away from home...well loves, off I go...I need more rest for the time being.