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December 27, 2004

What a Christmas!!!

Yeah, I mean w-h-a-t a Christmas too.

Imagine waking up Christmas morning sick as a dog hanging upside down from a chinaberry tree, and at about 6:00 am vomiting what seems like forever. It really sounds devastating, but I assure you, that was rosy compared to the ending. ;-)

So anyway, I'm sick as can be, and vomiting something awful. In fact, I am not going to tell you how sick I actually was, because I don't want my blog to resemble a hospital wing. That is what is going to happen anyway, but at least I can spare you the gruesome details.

I end up spending the whole day on the couch, and my family was sick too, but only with the cold I had before I got the wretched whatever-it-was. So we were a pretty mum lot, and it sure wasn't a Merry Christmas.

I was truly in a bad way. Towards the early part of the afternoon, my heart began to feel strangely strained, and a very cold chill set in around it. I thought maybe I was having a heart attack, but it wasn't persistent pain like a heart attack is. Then my lungs started slacking off, and I had the worst time trying to breath!! The third (and probably the worst) symptom I had was my brain sucking for dear life for blood, which it wasn't getting enough of.

Pretty morose eh? Well, Mom wanted to take me to the hospital, and I felt like going for sure, which is bad, because I don't go to the hospital unless I'm at death's door.

I started sipping fluids, mainly cranberry juice and Vitamin C drink, and I was actually able to keep it down!! I began to feel better, and the breathing got easier, my brain felt better, and my heart perked up. I felt good enough that we watched three movies that we had gotten for Christmas that afternoon. I wasn't feeling well, but the terrible symptoms were gone for awhile.

It was getting time for bed, so I headed to take my bath. The bath felt good, it was after I got out of the tub and was getting dressed that it happened.

Wave after wave a awful nausea hit me, and I threw up everything I had managed to keep down during the afternoon. I remember not being able to breath - almost screaming to get some air - and the dizziness came over me. Everything turned a lucious shade of black, and then there was nothing.

When I woke up, nurses and doctors were tapping me and prodding me, asking me questions, like "What's your name?", "How many quarters are in a dollar?", "How old are you?", and "Who's the President?".

I had been rushed through the ice cold Christmas night in an ambulance to the hospital. Yay.

The doctor told me what probably happened. Dehydration has many different levels, and I was near the worst. Also, the heart, brain and lungs need potasium to operate, and I had vomited mine up. With my important minerals depleted and badly dehydrated, my body went into shock, and KABOOM I went on to the bathroom floor.

Well, they checked me for head trauma, because they thought I had a concussion. They tell me things I don't even remember. They tell me I insisted that I was 17 years old, and that it was October the 12th. Okay.....

Once I checked out to be okay, they rehydrated me with some warm, yummy IV goodies, and I went home around 12:30 pm that night. Praise the Lord that I was alright and I didn't break my neck when I blacked out!! So it wasn't an entirely dull Christmas, just not the way I wanted to spend it. ;-)

I'm still not feeling all that great, but I am a whole lot better than I was Christmas. I have to work tomorrow too. :-(

Enough with the troubles. Let's see what I got for Christmas.

Quite a roundup!!! I was just looking at my Big Book of Grilling and forgot I was sick. I want to COOK!!! Heeheee.

Posted by Grant at December 27, 2004 04:25 PM

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Praise God that you were not hurt worse in your fall and the causing factor of that fall! I am so sorry that you were sick during Christmas, and we will continue to pray that you recover quickly!!


As for your gifts....wow! You made out well didnt you?? Thats some pretty cool stuff!! :D

Posted by: Carm at December 27, 2004 06:22 PM

how did you get so dehydrated???

Posted by: Jesse at December 27, 2004 06:24 PM


Thanks for your prayers! :-)

As for getting dehydrated so bad, you'd think I would have enough sense to replentish my fluids, right? Well, I sure tried, but I couldn't keep anything down. As soon as I would get something down, back up it came! :-D

Posted by: Grant at December 27, 2004 08:19 PM

Wow, Grant, I'm glad to hear you are feeling a little better now! I felt almost exactly the same way around Christmas (vomiting, etc)....anyway, that's pretty weird. :-( I'll be praying for you.

Posted by: Josiah at December 27, 2004 10:59 PM

Grant. :( You poor guy. :( *feels very sorry*

Don't work too hard, please. *prays you get rested up and feeling wholly well again soon*

Posted by: Sarah at December 28, 2004 10:21 AM

Josiah, that IS weird! Almost everyone I know was just as sick or sicker on Christmas. It's a conspiracy...they're out to get us. ;-)

Thank you all for praying! I could really use your prayers going back to work so soon after this! :-)

Posted by: Grant at December 28, 2004 12:00 PM

How is work going, by the way? Is it okay? Really bad? Endurable? Sometimes fun?

Posted by: Sarah at December 29, 2004 12:31 PM

Well, I'd have to say not that great. Endurable and sometimes fun about describes it. *heehee*

Posted by: Grant at December 29, 2004 09:47 PM

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