So here's how my day went in the end. Last night, after a long previous 24 hours, my inner ear started playing up (see 'Benign Positional Vertigo' thread if you want the details) and I very quickly got flushed, sweating, headachey, eyes couldn't focus, and nauseous. Yuck. So I went to lie down and called DH for a cold flannel for my head (I couldn't go to bed yet because Krystiana was still cluster-feeding for the night).
Krysti finished her feed and I was feeling pretty horrible so got DH to carry her, and then help me, downstairs to bed. And once I was there the vertigo kicked in big time! I had waves of extreme nausea and started vomitting, over this time Krystiana woke for more feeding so I was with her to feed then feeling nauseous so put her down as is to go do my thing and then come back for the second part of the feed. I've never had to deal with chucking and bf together before.
Once Krysti went to sleep for the night I lay on my bed and fell asleep in record time. I woke for feeding/nappy changing (forgot to do it right before bed, for obvious reasons) at 2.30am and then slept through to 6am - when DH's alarm went off. I felt rested but any turn of my head sent things spinning so I asked him to take sick leave and be my nurse. He did but he wanted to get his mum around to do it instead lol, mockingly saying "Mum, please, I just want to be an irresponsible teenager again" LOL
So it was DH, please pass this, please wipe that, please change that person for a couple of hours before we got an appointment to see the Doctor (for anything! anything to make me not feel like this!) at 9.15am, by which time DH was musing the benefits of (historic) Samoan communities where the women-folk deal to all nurturing matters and the men go off together and hunt. He even asked our nurse, teasingly, if she wanted to come to our place today cause he'd really prefer to be at work!
There's not much my Doc can do other than ease my symptoms while BPV runs it's course (probably for 5-7 days), so I've been prescribed some meds to help keep the dizziness at bay - but get this, some of the potential side effects are drowsiness (which is probably quite helpful) and dizziness (low blood pressure) of all things!!
So my head's been feeling a lot better this afternoon. Definitely still there but I'm not violently sick or getting bouts of dizziness/nausea, it's more like a foggy dizziness. I certainly am not up to driving at the moment, we'll see how I go tomorrow because I have already made an appointment for Krystiana's 6 week check and imm's in the afternoon.
But the humour in all of this?? The DH. They don't do well with Man Flu but they do even worse when someone else is sick lol. Last night as he set to work on my great big miss-the-toilet (carpet and lino, ugh), he was saying the smell was almost setting him off (he says the same when he changes mucky nappies). So he was there with the mop, a curled up tissue up each nostril and a hairdressing hairclip over the top of his nose as well. Hilarious! If I wasn't going around in circles I would have enjoyed the laugh!
Wow that was long. If you're still reading, hopefully it was entertaining
And I've told DH he can go back to work tomorrow - he'll be so happy lol
My day...
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