The beau and I went out to lunch today. We had some giftcards for Ruby Tuesdays (one of my fave restaurants) that were given to us by someone I cat-sat for. We figured we'd spend the day out, have a free lunch, come home and do a movie night and all would be splendid. Instead, it ended up being a day from hell.
I ordered a salad and a veggie burger and a mango tea - nothing rough on the stomach, nothing fancy. But about 10 minutes or so after I'd finished eating I felt SO sick. I literally had to hobble to the bathroom because I was in so much pain. My stomach was churning like crazy. I almost fainted just trying to get into the stall. I was dripping sweat, dizzy as all get-out, and no matter which way I leaned or how much I bent, moved, or strained, I absolutely could NOT ease the pain in my stomach. The only thing that helped was when I started to Reiki my abdomen. The cramps stopped and I was able to pass a little of what was upsetting me.
I must have sat in the bathroom for a good thirty minutes. One of the waitresses even came in to check on me twice! David was so good and patient with me throughout all of this. When I was finally able to stand (and that was truly a feat) I walked out to him where he practically caught me in the hallway. He had to help me out to the car and kept insisting that I should go to the hospital. The thought had crossed my mind, but I make it a point to listen to my body and go with my gut and my body was telling me that it was just a REALLY bad stomach ache and if I could only get home and lay down, I'd be fine.
So he took me home and got me set up in bed and covered me up and turned on a comedy show for me, thinking that laughter might help ease the pain. I thought for sure it would make things worse - having to use stomach muscles to laugh - but it helped take my mind off the pain. He layed with me and we laughed together and by the time it was over I was feeling so immensely better. He's always so good to me; I'm very lucky to have him in my life.
Right now even he's picking us up some mint chocolate chip ice cream because I wanted something cold (and minty) in my stomach and he wanted something chocolatey. We're going to watch another comedy show when he gets back and try to finish today on a good note. :)
My stomach is always so sensitive and none of my doctors have ever been able to find a reason for it. They always just say it's "IBS" which is really just a catch-all type of diagnonsense. I have stomach problems far too frequently. I am going to see if David's sister (who is very "new age") will do a tarot card reading and see if she gets any clues as to what the problem may be.
For now, I'm going to stick to very simple, mono-meals, which is how I've been eating lately for no particular reason other than that's how my body decided it wanted to eat.
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