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serindeThere is such a thing as "payback", and it is defined as "being truly sympathetic when your best friend is woeful about how she just can't seem to stop eating right now, but internally feeling just a *leeetle* bit over-virtuous about how well your diet is going; and therefore two weeks later there is not a horrible food in home or office that does not find its way into your gaping, never-sated maw."
Srsly. Eating the same schedule and rations of food I was two, three, four weeks ago; and I'm still ravenously hungry. Preparing for hibernation? No clue.
Today was a general mess--had to leave work midday to come home and drive Steve to the doctor, as he was feeling too woozy and weak from severe belly distress to drive himself. (Current diagnosis: probably some form of bacterial gastroenteritis, possibly salmonella or the like. But they don't know for sure, because you need to test...samples, and he has nothing left with which to produce a sample.) Also, enormous slush storm. That was fun. Finally got him back home, slogged to drugstore, got his antibiotic and anti-nausea prescriptions filled, scraped off the car AGAIN, etc. etc. So naturally, once sufficient measures had been taken to relieve him and he had fallen asleep, I started baking. My attempt at whole wheat bread is composed of utter fail: refused to rise. (It is definitely harder to work than white flour.) Therefore I also made peanut butter cookies. Because that is what we need right now, any of us. Feh.
To end on a vaguely useful note, the broth that the Poule au Pot cooked in is very tasty and nourishing, as I thought might be the case.
Srsly. Eating the same schedule and rations of food I was two, three, four weeks ago; and I'm still ravenously hungry. Preparing for hibernation? No clue.
Today was a general mess--had to leave work midday to come home and drive Steve to the doctor, as he was feeling too woozy and weak from severe belly distress to drive himself. (Current diagnosis: probably some form of bacterial gastroenteritis, possibly salmonella or the like. But they don't know for sure, because you need to test...samples, and he has nothing left with which to produce a sample.) Also, enormous slush storm. That was fun. Finally got him back home, slogged to drugstore, got his antibiotic and anti-nausea prescriptions filled, scraped off the car AGAIN, etc. etc. So naturally, once sufficient measures had been taken to relieve him and he had fallen asleep, I started baking. My attempt at whole wheat bread is composed of utter fail: refused to rise. (It is definitely harder to work than white flour.) Therefore I also made peanut butter cookies. Because that is what we need right now, any of us. Feh.
To end on a vaguely useful note, the broth that the Poule au Pot cooked in is very tasty and nourishing, as I thought might be the case.
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Date: 2007-12-14 05:37 am (UTC)And now a word from the poop queen...
Date: 2007-12-14 01:01 pm (UTC)Odds are, he has a stomach virus:
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/revb/gastro/norovirus-qa.htm
The norovirus (named for Norwalk, OH, where it was first isolated)is reaching epic proportions this year. This is the bad bug that kills cruises, and whole schools at a time.
We've been up to our armpits in our hospital lab with stool specimens these past two weeks. Gotta plate those bad boys under the isolation hood.
They've all been pretty much negative for anything bacterial. This is good, because last year C Diff was running rampant through the nursing homes in the area.
So, odds are, it's viral.
The good news is that it will pass.
He needs to baby his belly however. He should stick to the brat diet: bananas, applesauce, rice and toast.
No caffeine, no greasy foods.
And I second the probiotics. Oh, and no dairy except for the yogurt.
Also, keep wiping your bathroom door knob and the toilet down with Lysol wipes or something similar, or the whole house is going to come down with this bug.
Re: And now a word from the poop queen...
Date: 2007-12-14 04:49 pm (UTC)The whole house has, I think, already had it, in greater or lesser degree. (I had four hours of misery the weekend before last, and was dainty the next day, but that was it for me; I seem to have been the least affected.) Indeed, Steve's been off-and-on with stomach/GI trouble for the last week and a half; it just took a sharp turn into OH GOD KILL ME yesterday morning. Which seemed more than a bit odd to me, unless he got a new dose of the unpleasant bug, do you think?
Yeah, it is much in my mind to start ladling on the lactobacilli. If he remembers to take them, heigh ho.
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Date: 2007-12-14 11:30 pm (UTC)For whole wheat bread, try 80% white bread flour and 20% whole wheat flour. That should rise okay. I used to do about 50/50 and that didn't work out that well at all.