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Ryank1908 said:
I have Cyclical Vomiting Syndrome so, you know, any of those times. Notable mentions include the three times I've thrown up in school, throwing up on a train, throwing up in a supermarket, and blacking out from dehydration and waking up 4 hours later covered in sick in my bathroom.
Oh yes. It's unpleasant.
Welcome to the Escapist. <3
I've had similar episodes to many of the posts so far, but few really serious diseases. (Yay me!) The drippy poo + vomit combo when I was ten.
I had the chicken pox when I was a baby, which is the best time to have it because you don't remember the incessant
itching. (I've had people describe it like mosquito bites.) I did have over 100 bites on my body after returning (early with strep throat, even) from a summer camp when I was twelve, so I liken that to the same thing.
I few years ago I broke my ankle and dislocated my kneecap in a martial arts accident. Let me rephrase that: I nearly broke my foot off and put my kneecap somewhere where the paramedics couldn't
find it. It really does a number on your whole system. Also, I earned the nickname "Jacob Marley" from my sisters because I had to use a walker to get around until the knee brace could come off, and it clicked, so I rattled through the house at night. >=( There is a plate and six screws holding my right ankle together. Doc says that
when, not
if, I dislocate it again, I'll need surgery on the knee, too. I swear, sometimes I looked down after the surgery and expected to see my leg
on fire, it hurt so bad.
This past spring I had a cold, the stomach flu, and tonsilitis at once, and the resulting drug cocktail gave me "female problems." Four illnesses in under a month! Woo!
I once had tonsilitis so bad that my right tonsil swelled up and took over about 75% of my airway. I woke up choking/suffocating on my own snot several times. When you go see your doctor and the size of it actually freaks him out, you've got a winner.
Another cold / flu / sore throat episode was slightly more fun. The commute to the university I was going to was only about 15 minutes. The only cough medicine we had was prescription with codeine. I would take it right before walking out the door, and I'd be in my Physics class in less than a half hour at 9am. I've never had a 9am class be quite so pleasant as when the codeine kicked in when the roll sheet was going around. My professor asked me if I was okay after the second day of this, and after I reasurred him that I wasn't driving anywhere for at least four hours, he relaxed and just shook his head when he saw me sleepily grinning like a fool at the blackboard while he explained fun things like the equation for the force of gravity.
I recently ran 105+ degree fever. Flu and tonsilitis again, and my mother yelled at me for not taking ibuprofin to lower that. I really had forgotten that one can get brain damage from fevers that high. My bad.
Last one. One summer about ten years ago, I developed a rash. I'd never really had a rash before, and nothing like this since. It began on my upper arms and thighs and I thought I had heat rash. Should have gone away overnight. The next morning it had spread to my forearms and legs. The next day it was to my hands and ankles. It hurt when rubbed (most noticable on the hands) but otherwise was just red bumps. My sister had gotten a band of bumps around her middle, slightly higher than her waist. We both make a trip to the doctor (the same one I would later freak out with my monstrous tonsil) and I announce cheerfully to him that we've got bumps. He looks at me, and looks at her, and after a few quick doctorly proddings tells me, "You've had an allergic reaction. Take this pill for a week and you'll be fine." He turns to my sister and says, "You on the other hand, have shingles." I laughed all the way home. Dodged the bullet on that one, so to speak.
