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Galvin has not been sick for a long time. Today... He fell sick.

He did not have a good sleep due to some erratic dream that kept plaguing him through the night. He kept thinking that he had some important appointment today, spent time rationalizing in his dream (yes, in his dream) and whiled the entire early morning away half awake, half asleep. When he finally woke up, his first stop to the toilet. It was there where he realised that something was terribly wrong.

The stools came out in watery spurts (okay sorry for the graphic imagery) instead of the normal ones. Galvin suddenly felt very nauseated... he went to the kitchen and found a pack of unopened carbon pills, so he decided to take two and see if the situation would be alleviated.

As soon as he downed the two pills and half a cup of water, he felt this sudden rush of the pills and water travelling up instead of down the stomach. Not wanting to make a mess, he rushed to the nearest toilet and prepared for the worst, though he really did not want to vomit. The sensations came - his mouth started to produce saliva from beneath the tongue. He tried his best to swallow them down and suppress the vomiting while asking God no please no please...

Hahaha.

Yeah.

Didn't vomit in the end. There were altogether two instances when I rushed to the toilet... but thank God, no mess. Haha. Didn't dare to eat because of the nauseated feeling, so worked two hours on the computer in the morning, downed another two pills and went back to sleep for two hours.

Thank God things got better. Started to venture into eating biscuits... which stayed in the stomach. My hands got really cold in the course of the day though... could feel a fever coming, even now as I type. Guess I'll sleep early later.

Thank God that the day was still productive - did quite a bit of work in between the periods of rest. And hur ya... thank you dear for cooking the herbal chicken and bringing it over for dinner... my stomach was well enough for that at night. =) Well, at least I'm still okay for now. :P

I have a feeling that it's the food from the new hongkong style eatery which I patronized with Dori the night before. The century egg and chicken porridge was nice though... but if it's the food that's causing so much trouble today... OH WELL.

But yeah... my resolve is not to visit the docs for this... unless it gets worse I guess. From the looks of it, healthy food, lots of water and rest seem to do the trick.

Thanks to everyone who sent get-well-soon messages! :)