It's been 4 days now since I came down with Norovirus and I am very very bored of having no energy.
Thankfully, the V part of D&V never hit me, but for the first three days I couldn't put any food in without it coming back out again half an hour later, which is rather faster than the body's transit systems like.
Gideon came down with it a few days earlier than me, with the vomiting taking him out of action on Tuesday night. Sophia managed to last as long as I did before coming down with things herself. They've both been about as well behaved as you can ask for from small sick children. Jane has either not been hit by it quite as badly, or is so used to chronic lack of energy that she's managed to look after all of us at different points and keep us all going. I am so incredibly grateful to her.
Today I have managed to actually eat food and have it stay inside of me, but this has had the knock-on effect that it completely knocks me out about half an hour after I take my first bite. This one has been a strange version of norovirus for me in any case - I've felt incredibly energy-depleted and there was one night where I basically passed out in the hallway outside the bathroom in the middle of the night. But it's very odd that I was shovelling food into my mouth like someone who hadn't eaten anything in days and then suddenly found myself going "Must stop eating and lie down on the nearest available soft surface", and was asleep 5 minutes later. And then, when I woke up, I felt like my brain hadn't woken up again properly - I had pins and needles on my scalp, which isn't something I've really felt before. I actually went and checked with the pulse oximeter to make sure that I was getting enough oxygen into my blood (it was 96%).
All of which is to say that despite feeling like a total shirker, I am not going in to work tomorrow either, because naps under desks are not something that office policy allows for, but I do feel like I'm on a slow upward incline, and am looking forward to being able to resuming normality as soon as I can.
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