Attack of the Enzymes

This was gonna be the Halloween when I actually had fun. I had the basic idea for a costume, I had invitations to parties thrown by two different sassy ladies, and I was eager to go out after a few consecutive weekends of out-of-town trips.

My enthusiasm for the whole thing started to dwindle late Wednesday night as I clutched the rim of the toilet bowl, when it became clear I’d been having more than just a little heartburn for the previous few days. On Friday, the doc confirmed my amateur diagnosis: ulcer!

Woohoo! A weekend full of stomach pain, bland soups, applesauce, and water instead of candy and hijinks! The coolest part of all was having to watch out for enough blood or anything that require a trip to the emergency room.

Fun!

Well, things are OK and my bland soups have been staying down, but my stomach still hurts and I still have to go have a tube with a camera shoved down my gullet tomorrow. That ought to be more fun the weekend I’d been planning, right?

9 thoughts on “Attack of the Enzymes”

  1. take care, sparky…i hope the ulcer heals soon. i’ll be sending you warm thoughts during that icky test. i think they will give you something to sleep so maybe you won’t remember much of it. hope so…
    xoxo
    brent

  2. feel better, mr. sparks!
    if it helps (which i’m sure it doesn’t) you’ve changed my conception of ulcers. always thought ulcers were for old, fat men that wore ugly business suits, worked too hard, and sexually harrassed their secretaries. now i know that the best of us can get them…

  3. awww. that’s poo! i dressed up as buttercup from the powerpuff girls. unfortunately, there are no good pictures of the costume, oh well :-/
    i hope you feel better soon! i love you! oh, thanks for the mp3 disks. i almost peed my pants while i was looking at what was on all of them, heh.

  4. Ouch! I’ve got that “hold in the stress” thing going too. Now I’m even more worried.
    I was planning to ask you about meeting me for lunch at a relatively new vegetarian Indian in your ‘hood. Maybe not right away…

  5. Sorry to hear that, Sparky! Ulcers are no fun! If it helps any, I’m on Protonix for GERD which is good stuff for helping out in helping ulcers go bye-bye.

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