sudden onset crap.

So all of yesterday I felt a little bit off. Went to Bowie Town Center with dreamattack329, shopped a bit, had some dinner, and my tummy was just getting crankier and crankier. Stopped at the pharmacy, got some Tums, started popping those. Made it to Barnes and Noble, where Scrabble Club meets, still not feeling great, vaguely nauseous, achey, etc. Went to the bathroom to try to fix my stomach, and walking back to the cafe from the bathroom, everything started getting hazy, blurry and white around the edges. This has happened to me once before, in Peru, when I got altitude sickness and passed out in a restaurant. Luckily, this time I made it back to a chair, but I was freezing and sweaty and pale, my chest hurt, I couldn't breathe deeply - basically, just not well. I asked someone to call an ambulance, because the upper chest pain was really scary. By the time it arrived, I was able to sit up, mostly, and walked myself to the ambulance after being asked lots of questions. That was about 7pm.

Had a visit to the lovely Anne Arundel ER, where they took 5 vials of blood, and gave me an IV of fluids, leaving me with lovely bruises on both of my arms. They think it's just a stomach flu-type virus, but I've never had something hit that hard, that fast. Got home around midnight, at which point I slept and slept and slept, until my doctor's appointment at 1:45pm today. I still haven't eaten, but I'm hungry, so I think that's a good sign.

So yeah, if you don't see me around for a bit, that's why.