Just letting you all know that my blog is going to be rather quiet for the next couple of days at least – I have comments to answer as well and I promise I’ll get to them eventually. I’ve also gotten very behind on reading your blogs! I’m sorry.
I’ve come down with a nasty bout of the flu – I thought it was just a winter cold but BOOM! This thing is nasty.
It’s made me realize just how important it is for us to have as much strength in reserve as possible. When you are fighting an eating disorder and you get something like the flu – having a bit of extra weight, and having had good nutrition over a long period of time beforehand could mean the difference between surviving it or not.
This flu strain has been killing people – I’ve only avoided hospital because it was a weekend and I was too stubborn to go – but I’m still very lucky. I realize I need a lot more weight, nutrition, strength behind me or the next serious bug that comes along might just kill me.
Remember that, my lovely friends – you can’t ever know what’s around the corner. If you got a serious illness tomorrow, could your body cope with it?
Keep fighting!!!
Oh no! I hope you feel better soon
Thank you, Katie, I’m on the mend now thankfully
Take good care if need be see a doctor. Thinking of you Paula
Thank you, Paula, I know you know it’s always a worry when someone with an ED gets sick. Unfortunately my GP was booked out but I have the number of an after hours service if things get bad again, I’ve also had my chemist deliver around some hydralyte to drink. I didn’t want to go into the actual hospital as was my only option over the weekend, because as you can imagine, I hate that place! But I’d go in a heartbeat if I really needed to. xx
Take good care of yourself, no one will blame you for being absent for a couple of days! *hug!* Somehow, I have an immune system of steel and hardly get sick. When I do, I fight it off really efficiently and quickly. People tell me about how often they get sick from food poisoning, mainly from restaurants, and I’m always shocked as I’ve never gotten food poisoning in my life. It’s so very odd to me.
Anyway, please feel better soon! We will be looking forward to the day we hear from you again! ^_^
It didn’t take long for you to hear from me
thank you for your lovely message. I think it’s awesome to have an immune system of steel! I think you aren’t the odd one, people who get sick all the time are the odd ones 
I think your body is doing what it’s meant to be doing and taking those bugs down! I wouldn’t be surprised if it also had a lot to do with your optimism – I’ve heard that people who are more positive get sick a lot less often. I get sick a lot because the ED has given me chronic nuetropenia (low white blood cell counts) so I catch everything going and have trouble shaking it off, which can be annoying.
I’m over the worst now thank you, and I had to come online because I was going bonkers. I do NOT lie around doing nothing well. Blah. Being a sloth is underrated haha
I hate flu with my bad back the achiness is tripled, keep hydrated and I always find chicken soup helps,
That’s awful, back aches make everything so much worse. I hope you manage to avoid the flu completely! Chicken soup is wonderful if you can find someone to make it for you. I don’t think the stuff out of the tin works as well, but I’m trying anyway
Rest and Fluids – Here’s to Getting Better:)
Thank you – hope you are well yourself xxx
Fiona i’m sorry you’re so ill! please go to the doc,if you don’t see improvement soon! you are probably more susceptible to illness because of the the ed and can’t fight it off as easily. lotsa love xo
Thank you so much for caring, don’t worry my friend. I’m okay. I didn’t want to go into the actual hospital as was my only option over the weekend, and I’m not as sick as I was on the weekend now. It was scary! Thankfully my chemist dropped round some hydralyte to drink and that’s helped me with the dehydration, because that was what would have most likely have put me in there, I wasn’t coping with the nausea part of it at all. It really has brought home to me again not just that it’s more difficult to fight off illnesses when you aren’t well already, but when fighting them relies so much on your eating and drinking, it’s even harder. I’ve found myself feeling very panicked and lost because I broke my carefully planned routines because the flu doesn’t care about meal plans, it doesn’t care that you need to eat certain things at certain times and can’t cope with others. The hydralyte was glucose-rich and I’ve drunk it regardless so I’m proud of myself for that, and proud of myself for feeding myself a bit better after the initial “Oh gosh, I can’t do this” panic. It’s also reminded me I don’t want to let myself slip backwards again because over the weekend, that feeling of being so weak and sick reminded me of my sickest days with anorexia where I was too weak and sick to cope – it’s scary, it’s not nice, and I do not want to go back there. Sometimes the grass starts seeming a bit greener on the other side again so these reminders are worth their weight in gold! Lots of love back – thank you for caring and your kind words xx
so glad you have recovered. being dehydrated can make you sick too so i’m glad you found it in you to drink what the chemist brought you! xo
Treat yourself like you would a friend. You may want to do what you’d tell her to do… even is it means seeing a doctor if you need to… Prayers & hugs
~ Wendy
“Treat yourself like you would a friend” Such good and timely advice. That’s what helps me every time, and gives me a reality check when I’m being silly! Thank you, Wendy xx
So sorry that you’re unwell Fiona…I hope and will pray that it doesn’t get any worse but in fact you begin the healing process..take care Diane
Thank you, Diane, for your prayers. I did manage to turn things around by looking after myself. Prayers help so much – more than we know xxx
Oh, gosh! I’m so sorry you have those. Hate hate hate them!
Feel better soon, sunshine! I hope you have someone to cook you a chicken soup? Or I should come?
PS I’m behind all blogging thing as well. So what?
xo
Oh yes please!!! Please please please come, Greta!! Hahaa, imagine you flying all the way from the other side of the world to make me chicken soup, and I’m sure it would be tasty soup too. Friends are the chicken soup for the soul, that’s for sure! I’m on the mend now, thank you, as you can see, I can’t stay away for long! No, it doesn’t matter when we are behind at all
Love you xoxo
Hm, I truly doubt my soup would be edible unless I fetch Kath on my way to kangaroo land.
Then we’d feast on chicken soup!
I promise I’d come if it weren’t for the money!
I dream to be rich …
The more the merrier!!! Well, we can always dream. We are rich – in the best way
xxx
Gah, flu!!
I hope you’ll feel better soon!
Sorry I didn’t manage to read and comment lately, I was just too exhausted due to all the learning and emotional stress, so I just kept contact via fb.
AMAZING YOU! Yes! Even when you are very sick with a terrible flu, you are telling US to fight! That’s the spirit! You are amazing. Please take good care!!! REST REST REST, and do whatever the doc says that doesn’t scare the pants off of ya!
Having an active ED and having major dental work was my biggest nightmare. The flu, teeth, stomach ulcers, etc. NONE of that stuff heals when you’re actively dealing with food issues.
Please get well!! XOXOX MELIS
Oh Mel, I’m still wincing at the memory of my wisdom teeth op! I hope your recent dental work went okay and not too painfully
I’ve been having to really push hard to challenge myself against the nausea, it’s still a problem. But I’ll get there – I’m on the mend so I’m getting there! 
It is a nightmare when you are sick and have ED. My biggest struggles have been keeping myself hydrated when I already struggle to drink enough fluid, and the nausea! Especially when my neighbor decided to have a roast dinner on the Saturday night when I was feeling my worst, I usually love the smell, but oh, one whiff of that roast and I was heaving my guts up
Thank you so much for caring. You are an awesome sis xoxox
I’m THRILLED you are getting better! I know what you mean about certain smells!! I cannot smell roast lamb of an kind. It literally makes me vomit. I had a roommate who LOVED lamb, and she also overcooked it. We had to arrange a time that I would be out of the apt. so she could fix that icky, smelling meat. I can’t eat it either. ONE THING, i can’t eat!!! Jeesh.
ANYWAY … keep resting, and try to drink a little gatorade maybe. It’s sort of awful tasting, but it’s supposed to replenish electrolytes, etc. OXOXOO MEL
I usually quite like the smell of roasts, because I guess it makes me nostalgic, roasts were always good time foods when I was growing up. I guess nausea + roast chicken do not mix at all
I think it must be the fattiness that makes us sick? Lamb can be quite fatty. Poor you living with a roommate who loved what made you sick! Good thing she made arrangements with you.
I rested a lot and I drank better than gatorade, I drank a whole litre of hydralyte!! That stuff is full of sugar and good electrolytes. Feeling quite a lot better now, thank you. I got a huge dressing down from my case manager today for not going to hospital though
OK, my responses are going all over! Take good care honey. I’m going to bathe and go to work. I’m hanging in there. I’m feeling “spread-thin” at the moment. I’m just tired. Take care of you!! OX MELIS
Hang in there, Mel, time to regroup and look after YOU first of all. *hugs* sending strength love and prayers your way. You can do it xxx
Thanks Fiona! I’m going slow. Just going easy on myself. Self-care, less worrying about what others’ thing, etc. XOXOXOXO Love you! Have a wonderful rest! xoxoxo melis
I’m glad you are looking after yourself, Melis, and hoping and praying things get brighter for you asap xxxxx
Oh Kath, don’t worry, you’ve been awesome. I’m still chuckling at the Black cat proving he’s different pic you shared with me! I know you have been busy with study and I don’t envy you but I’ve been thinking of you. *hugs*
get well sooon! may the force be with your body to fight the flu bug!
Thank you so much Valerie
=( I hope you feel better soon!
Thank you, Aggy!
Take care, Fi! REST.
AND EATZ ALL THE FOODS!!!!!<—for real. Restriction – be it on purpose or because (duh) we are sick is a slide downward as we already have that pre-programmed "rut" in our brain and it is always there.
We have an allergic reaction, one light say.
Thank you so much Melis. You are right about the risk of us slipping, that’s a huge danger for me, not to keep on going with the downslide after I’m better. I’m glad to say now I’m mending, it hasn’t happened. My case manager was not happy with me, her worries are that someone with an eating disorder is always physically on an edge and that the dehydration could have been enough alone to kill me. I guess another part of self care has to be, even if it’s the last thing we want, if we need to go to hospital, to go! Also have to remind ourselves that we deserve self care. So many issues tangled up with the Ed and keeping well, aren’t there
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