sick sick sick of being sick
This is getting ridiculous. On December 27 I came down with the full-blown, wish-I-was-dead version of the dreaded norovirus that’s terrorizing Rochester—it knocked me out completely for a day, but took five days to recover completely from.
Last Monday I came down with a lower-GI-only-version that took me out for all of Tuesday. Two GI bugs in two weeks—I figured I was particularly unlucky.
This morning I woke up at 3:30am with what turned out to be round two of the norovirus (or something very like it). It was worse, not better, the second time around. I wasn’t able to keep liquids down until late afternoon, and while the symptoms have abated now I still feel like I’ve been hit by a bus.
A little research on the CDC site (once I was able to sit up again) yielded two relevant pieces of information. First, that it is possible to be reinfected, though typically people get a few months of resistance rather than a few weeks. And second, that people with type O blood (that’s me) are genetically predisposed to be more vulnerable to the virus.
I really hope that this bad luck traveled in threes, and that I won’t be seeing symptoms like these again in the near future.
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