So, I ended up being in the ER for a night and under observation for another day. With 4-5 pipes running into my veins for almost a whole day supplying my body with IV fluid, antibiotics - I wondered laying on the hospital bed whether deciding to go with home cooked food was the right thing to do on that Tuesday night. I think I jinxed my good health off-late. Been running 5 miles atleast once a week and 3-4 atleast 2 times, eating an egg everyday, eating healthy (salad, rice, roti, vegetables, occasionally pizza and fries). Come tuesday night - I was debating if I should cook something and eat or just have some ready made parathas since my roommate had rice and chicken from a restaurant the night before. I decided, fine let me cook instead of eating something ready made. Picked up frozen green beans and mixed vegetables from the freezer and cooked a simple sabzi. Boiled an egg and had roti along with it. Wednesday morning was almost normal apart from diarrhoea in the morning which I should have realized then that something wasn't right. Around 11 am felt surprisingly hungry - I was thinking to myself what was wrong, pushed my hunger until 12 and decided to eat roti and THE SAME sabzi from the night before. That was it! God Knows (really even after spending a day at the hospital - all that doctors could say was GI infection) what went wrong that I had total uneasiness in my stomach. Pushed it until late evening on Wednesday hoping it was a condition of usual indigestion or gas. But when it didn't detiriorate until night, I decided to show it to a doctor (in this country going to a doctor when you are sick is going into ER unless its a regular check up). So even though it seems big - by the time I entered ER, I was 60% better than what I had already gone through.
What I am getting to is these situations can demotivate one to live healthily. I don't see anything wrong with what I did but still ended up sick :-(. May be I should have ordered a pizza, or had parathas.. but thats all now not at that very moment when it happened. Well I guess recovery wasn't too bad after all (I guess me being fit helped a bit). I am almost back to normal. Now I have to regain my stamina to be able to get back to running 5 miles under 40 mins and I am looking forward to it. I can saw it was good in a way this happened coz they could analyze my system to see if something was seriously wrong - Thank God! nothing came up - phew. Now I can recover for the next 3 weeks before I can enjoy good Indian food :D.
Off to home to get some lunch!
2 comments:
Gosh! Bad. The only saving grace was that it wasn't any serious.
Forozen food has it's disadvantages - primary among them is that it sucks out all nutrition from the food when it is fresh. But, then, how many better options do you have than frozen vegetables, forzen parathas, frozen rotis, forzen idly, frosen dosa, forozen sambar, and even frozen chutni?
Yup! And at these times it makes one realize "After all if you can't get good food, whats the point in living?" - Has me thinking on it for a looooooong time now. I guess its only a matter of time before the Volcano erupts and I take a decision!
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