Cairo Update
Greetings!
Alison
and I have spent most of the day in bed having had several vomiting
sessions last night. We've obviously both eaten something that
has caused it but we can't think what. Fortunately Hannah is completely
unaffected.
It
started last night, we ordered a take-away but I didn't feel like
eating it (a beef sandwich) so I put it in the fridge. For the
next couple of hours I felt a bit off but I thought that it would
pass- Alison started to feel the same. I had a phone call and
during the conversation I had to tell the lady - "I'm sorry, I'll
have to pass you over to Alision- I think I'm going to be sick
. . ." I just managed to get to the bathroom sink in time (I couldn't
even make it to the toilet). Alison couldn't face cleaning the
sick up from the sink so I had to try to put it in a carrier bag
by scooping it out with my hand (I assume you wanted ALL the details,
right?). It remained quite tepid and it was the tomato skins that
blocked the plughole.
I
thought that would be the end of it- not so! I was determined
to get a good night's sleep because I was leading the worship
at my church today. Unfortunately I had to make several journeys
to the bathroom to be sick but by this time it started to affect
Alison too. We were taking it in turns, one after the other to
use the toilet to be sick. Even when there was nothing more to
bring up. These vomiting sessions were about 30 minutes apart-
so after Alison finished hers I knew I'd be back in after half
an hour. We tried to make light of the situation, I remember saying
to her at one point- "That's 3-2 to me now love, I'm beating you
now!"
This
happened through the night as well as diarrhoea! I got hardly
any sleep but when the morning came I had to make a decision about
what to do about the service. I was supposed to be playing the
guitar with another lady but I was reluctant to hand it all over
to her- she would have had a heart-attack at the thought. I decided
to try to get started and see how far I get. Alison phoned a friend
at church to ask him to be the "stand-by" in case I had to run
out of the service at any point!
After
arriving at the church I started to feel better and the whole
service went without a hitch! For a lot of the time I was running
on "automatic pilot" but at least I managed to get to the end
without further problems. Because of a lack of fluids (and my
reluctance to take them in case I brought them back up again)
I felt like a prune, but I didn't want to drink anything without
a toilet being within comfortable running distance.
When
I arrived back Alison had already had breakfast and brought it
back up again so I decided to not even try! I managed to keep
down some drink. I phoned a doctor friend here to cancel my attendance
at a children's meeting (it is easier to find a replacement for
this) and to ask her for some advice on what to take. She gave
me the name of a drug to help to clean my insides but this was
not for Alison. Instead Alison was prescribed fresh lemon juice,
slightly diluted- apparently this is quite good for disinfecting
the stomach! We've been taking our medicines and we've basically
been having a day of recovery- both lying down with Hannah playing
around us.
I've
just had a couple of cartons of yogurt and they seem to be staying
put. We can both hold down liquids now and we'll probably start
to eat bread tomorrow.
Alison
phoned the gynaecologist to ask about the baby. The doctor said
that there is nothing to worry about since the baby can comfortably
go without the mother eating anything for 24 hours but there would
be a problem if she couldn't keep down the liquids (which isn't
the case now). Alison has been prescribed a suppositary in case
there are further difficulties in keeping down the food but she's
managed to hold down 2 handfuls of crisps and some yogurt.
The
cause of the stomach upsets are a mystery to us becase we both
ate different foods at different times yesterday. There is an
outside chance that we might have inadvertantly drank some tap
water but I'm not sure about this. My medical CD explains our
symtoms as being typical of eating contaminated dairy products
like milk or cream but neither of us ate these yesterday, neither
do we have any other flu symtoms (apart from aching all over)
so that's ruled out too, the mystery deepens!
Anyway,
the weather is cooling down for us now which means that we don't
need the fans on in the day now. At night we need to have a sheet
over us and in the morning my feet are sometimes cold- can't remember
the last time that I had this sensation!
Let
us know when you get the video from Wallace and Creidwen, send
them our love.
That's
all for now, I think that by tomorrow we should be back on top
of things.
The
copy of last week's update failed to get faxed to Elfed although
I tried several times, Dave, could you please send a copy of it
to him. I'll let you know if this one gets through to him in due
course.
Love,
Jason,
Alison and Hannah
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