Don't get me wrong, I have loved being in Georgia so far but I have to share this unique experience my family has just recently had the displeasure of enduring; the stomach flu or gastroentestinitis.
This thing comes on like a freight train. First there is a tummy ache followed by the chills. Then the fever and many, many, many, MANY trips to the bathroom. If you're lucky everything is moving south. If you're not lucky...well, then things are going north as well.
And through all of this...you're hungry. I have never felt so bad and been so hungry at the same time. It was insane.
Anyway, the fever lasts from 24 to 48 hours. The bathroom visits seem to last from a week to three weeks. I'm still trying to figure that one out as some of us are still in that holding pattern.
However, this unfortunate event lead us to the local ER not once but twice. Once with my 5 year old nephew and another trip with my 17 year old. Of course my 17 year old had to go in style by way of an ambulance ride. She had dehydrated so quickly that she became shocky during one of her many bathroom visits.
Two bags of fluids and a shot for nausea later and she was well on her way to recovery.
The ER was great to us and so were the nurses and doctor. The doc explained that being new to the area our bodies would need time to acclimate to the local bugs.
Now I had done lots of research in regards to our move but none of them included what the locals were coming down with.
Anyway this stomach flu has slowed us down a little bit but hopefully we'll all be back on track soon enough.
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