This week I developed food poisoning. For those of you who have experienced this, you know how aggravating and “messy” it can be. Talk about crash dieting!
Of all weeks to get sick, this certainly wasn’t one of them. Since most of my time has been spent in the bathroom and there’s no computer in there, I have dropped the ball on a couple of important projects for clients. The problem with that is those projects were due a week ago—which means my illness has delayed the work even longer.
This is what I would classify as a mess because people who know me know that I am always working hard—burning the midnight oil–to complete what I’ve started.
So what have I learned?
1) Don’t bite off more than you can chew for the sake of proving you can do it.
2) When mess because more mess, sometimes you just have to let it run its course. Too many times, we are so busy cleaning up the mess we made, that we create even more of a stink to the situation.
3) Don’t add anything to make it worse; just get through it and use the time to heal mentally and physically.
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February 21, 2009 at 3:47 am
I’ve been crook too, overnight and thought it was something I’d eaten for dinner last night – it was rather peppery, but I usually enjoy pepper.
However, at lunchtime today I discovered what might have caused it and like you, I think it’s food poisoning 😦 I discovered the loaf of break I’ve been making sandwiches from this week has developed mould – it’s quite visible today but wasn’t yesterday and since it’s multigrain extra colour wouldn’t have shown up. uggghhh now I know why I’ve been feeling so awful all night.
February 21, 2009 at 4:50 pm
Sometimes we just have to let down, let nature take its course, and give ourselves some TLC. It seems we’re always in a rush and pushing to work overtime. I think we often get sick because our bodies are crying, “enough!”
February 24, 2009 at 8:29 am
Interesting how so often we ignore the little signs, little messes, that are there trying to say stop for a minute, look around, be conscious, things are crumbling. Then as a last resort getting sick or injuring oneself is the sure way of stopping, before you really get into a mess.
February 26, 2009 at 2:45 pm
Oh Bev, Food poisoning is an awful thing, both times I contracted was from eating chicken. NOT because I have a problem digesting chicken, but when its been left out too long in a shop window, re-heated, or just not fresh…people don’t realise how delicate the stomach is, until they’ve been bowled over with a bad stomach ache, vomiting etc etc…I am always careful when buying any take-away, and there are many pointers to playing it safe! Maybe I will blog about that sometime, but meanwhile, glad its all out of your system, and bet you are glad too! 🙂