Update/follow up on last post
huh.......
well i am slowly recovering, but have reluctantly decided that i cannot attend Storvik Novice Tourney today. (This is an SCA event in Maryland that i was scheduled to merchant.) Outside all day in 90 degree weather right now seemed unwise.
The current best guess is that *something* upset my stomach, whether a stomach bug or bad food. Combined with my rather notoriously bad thermostat, and the hot weather, i got some kind of heat exhaustion on top of my bad stomach and started throwing up... (see last post)
i may have been mildly dehydrated, but it was probably a secondary issue instead of a primary one....
which is why putting my (now empty) stomach and the rest of me into the refrigerator (the Emergency Room waiting area, where i felt hot and everyone else was wrapped in blankets) and where because of my hurt ribs (see a few posts back) sitting is uncomfortable..i ended up walking slowly from one end of the waiting room to the other
slowly, but over and over, interrupted only to lean on a wall, try to go to the bathroom, and wash my mouth out with cool water.
eventually i started swallowing sips of water and not throwing up.
then after i managed to keep down two whole sips of sugared ice tea (tasted awful) i figured i was well enough to leave the waiting room.
i have since been VERY touchy in my stomach... and wilting fast in the heat, but otherwise ok......
so i expect the dehydration component was milder that usual..... although i have been drinking lightly salted lemonade with real sugar since i got home.. which seems to help. as does spending time in much more air conditioned environments than i have available at home.
anyway, i plan on hunting up a place with industrial air conditioning and hiding there.... i am thinking "book store" but this may be an expensive place for me to hide......
well i am slowly recovering, but have reluctantly decided that i cannot attend Storvik Novice Tourney today. (This is an SCA event in Maryland that i was scheduled to merchant.) Outside all day in 90 degree weather right now seemed unwise.
The current best guess is that *something* upset my stomach, whether a stomach bug or bad food. Combined with my rather notoriously bad thermostat, and the hot weather, i got some kind of heat exhaustion on top of my bad stomach and started throwing up... (see last post)
i may have been mildly dehydrated, but it was probably a secondary issue instead of a primary one....
which is why putting my (now empty) stomach and the rest of me into the refrigerator (the Emergency Room waiting area, where i felt hot and everyone else was wrapped in blankets) and where because of my hurt ribs (see a few posts back) sitting is uncomfortable..i ended up walking slowly from one end of the waiting room to the other
slowly, but over and over, interrupted only to lean on a wall, try to go to the bathroom, and wash my mouth out with cool water.
eventually i started swallowing sips of water and not throwing up.
then after i managed to keep down two whole sips of sugared ice tea (tasted awful) i figured i was well enough to leave the waiting room.
i have since been VERY touchy in my stomach... and wilting fast in the heat, but otherwise ok......
so i expect the dehydration component was milder that usual..... although i have been drinking lightly salted lemonade with real sugar since i got home.. which seems to help. as does spending time in much more air conditioned environments than i have available at home.
anyway, i plan on hunting up a place with industrial air conditioning and hiding there.... i am thinking "book store" but this may be an expensive place for me to hide......