Last Wednesday, I was doing what generations of lifeguards have warned us not to - I was horsing around. Specifically, I was acting like a retard with Julia in the stairwell. That's a normal part of my week.
And normal part of these shenanigans usually involves me picking her up, giving her a little hop, and cracking her back. Last Wednesday, the
unusual happened. I bent to pick Julia up and tweaked my own back. I hurt it something fierce, quickly and violently. And let me make this perfectly clear. It's not because Julia's morbidly obese or anything; my spine is just morbidly weak and puny. Julia's svelte and no threat to a normal back.
When Thursday rolled around, I was still hunchbacked. It sucked taint. My back hurt as bad as Krause's nads did that time he had the world's worst case of "lover's nuts." Taking Gulia's sound advice, I popped a few aspirin to help me through my morning.
A few hours later, as I was sitting through class, I started to feel sick to my stomach. Julia figured this was because I'd taken the aspirin without eating anything, and lunch would calm my guts back down. Well, two bites into lunch, I knew that wasn't going to happen. I couldn't eat anything, didn't want to eat anything. I knew I was going to be violently ill. It was only a matter of time.
I sat through a meeting with the boss and a future rotation student, and I have to admit, I'm pretty impressed that I didn't die or shit on anyone during it. About 3 minutes post-meeting though, I made the decision to get the heck out of Dodge.
I walked down to my bus stop in the freezing cold...and just missed every frickin' bus. That left me shuffling from foot to foot in the Arctic conditions making arcane oaths to every deity that would listen in hopes of coaxing a bus out of the aether on promises of sacrificed goats. Low and behold, a bus rounded the corner.
It wasn't one I could take. Neither was the next...or the next.
I couldn't take it anymore. Violent expulsions of waste from my body were imminent, and I needed to find a bathroom. I more than briefly considered just throwing up on the dinosaur statue outside of the Carnegie Museum, but I knew I'd shit myself in the process.
I shuffled to the Carnegie Library instead, stumbled into the bathroom, threw off my layers of winter clothes, and unleashed a tsunami of evil from my body that would require 4 janitors and an exorcist to clean up. And then it happened again.
Thankfully, I was in the bathroom long enough that the next volley of buses showed up. After the bumpiest ride ever, I finally made it home, stripped off my winter clothes again, and unleashed a torrent of evil again. And again, and again, and again.
Normally, I don't mind throwing up. It's actually sorta fun. I mean, if you're bored, at least it's something to do. Not having anything in your stomach to begin with though makes vomiting the worst. You're always having dry heaves and barfing bile. Things were so bad that I couldn't even lay down. Being horizontal made me want to throw up more, so I had to "sleep" sitting up all night. Yep, I got a total of ~3 hours of sleep, puked, and shat all night.
It wasn't all bad though. I got to stay at home on Friday (woohoo), I lost a bunch of weight (there's basically nothing left of me), and Julia found out that I was a goddamn idiot (don't ask). I'm a little pissed that no one else got the flu from me, and I'm pretty confused as to where I got it in the first place, but I blame Creationists and Intelligent Design.
Fags.