Post-Christmas Vomiting and my Tinsel Fixator!

Christmas day was very pleasant. From playing games with the family (just the three of us: my mum, brother, and I), a lovely roast beef dinner, and opening presents, it was a wonderful quite day.

Unfortunately I woke up vomiting bright and early Saturday morning. Vomiting that soon turned from throwing up Christmas dinner to throwing up bile which than rapidly progressed to dry heaving. Definitely not my way to spend the day. I also had a fever and chills.

Fortunately, after sleeping (or at least lying in my bed) for a solid thirty hours, I now feel much better and am able to stomach some food without feeling like things will come rushing back up again. This is great news because the nursing student within me says that not drinking anything for thirty plus hours is not exactly the best thing for your body. So I am now indulging in a nice cup of lemon tea.

On top of that, it is kind of hard to keep track of time when you are sick definitely which makes it hard to remember to take medication and do "the turns" on my fixator. I did manage to get the turns done, but didn't take any medication yesterday. As a result my leg did hurt a bit more than usual, but nothing unmanageable.

Being sick when you have an external fixator definitely sucks. As if the fixator wasn't bad enough, then add the throwing up/dry heaving, muscle pain, fever and chills, inability to get comfortable... I was not happy.

On a much brighter note, here are the pictures I took when I decorated my fixator for Christmas. Although my house was (probably still is) covered in stray bits of tinsel, it was totally worth it!

Don't mind the pile of stuff on the bed - I didn't finish wrapping gifts until Christmas day...