I’m always uncomfortable sharing details of illness on the Internet, there usually a stream of good and loving and comforting messages, a stream of unwanted medical advice and diagnoses, and then some horror stories people feel obliged to share. But this is the Internet, this is the meaning of sharing a life, this is the responsibility of my commitment to being open. I am not open about everything, there are many details of my life that I do not share, but you can’t just share the good, you have to share the bad as well up to a point, that is what a life is, what a life means.

If I’m laid up for a few days, I need to share that.

I have been very sick the past couple of days – acute nausea and weakness and other symptoms I’ll skip, the thinking is that it is viral gastroentitis, perhaps triggered by some of the diabetes medications  I am taking. As we all know, there are always side affects with medications, always, and so this is my turn. This is something new, it is pretty awful.

This is a fairly wicked thing to have, I’ve been in bed all day and up all night being sick. it is not a pretty or a neat illness, Maria is of course, wonderful to me, and she is an angel to have around. Right now she’s making me some applesauce, saltine crackers, yoghurt, some brown rice if I can handle it. In the morning, I might try some anti-nausea medication. I’m lucky in many ways.

This is the glorious and wondrous challenge of life, to soar past your Kickstarter funding goal one day, to be on your butt the next trying to keep some applesauce down. Dehydration matters with diabetes, if I can’t control it myself I’ll have to get some help over the weekend, I’m in touch with my very excellent nurse-practioner.

So there it i, in keeping with my pledge to be open, a cornerstone element of my blog. My plan is to be graceful, appreciative of Maria’s hard work, cognizant of the much worse suffering people endure with much worse illnesses. And to get well quickly, so I can resume my life and work. I’ll be in touch.