bad day

Yesterday (and the night that preceded it) was bad.

I had what was either (a) a flare-up, or (b) a bout of the 24 hour stomach flu, or (c) a lovely case of food poisoning.  With me, it’s hard to tell which is which unfortunately.

Given the range of things I ate on Sunday, it could have been triggered by any of the following:

1. Shrimp (defrosted and washed), mixed with mayo and wasabi mustard;
2. A tiny piece of unwashed sheep’s milk feta that I picked up from ARZ Market and which might have come from Iran;
3. New kind of hard cheese that looked like a brown and yellow marble slab;
4. Middle eastern sweet that was essentially an eggroll-shaped pastry doused in honey and filled with a creamy custard filling (had about half of one);
5. Half of a halloween-sized Kit Kat bar;
6. Antipasto squid fresh from the jar and marinated in oil and vinegar;
7. Any of the above;
8. None of the above!!

After a bad night and morning, I spent the rest of the day (and night) sleeping.  Food I ate yesterday that I was able to hold down:

1. Water laced with liquid strawberry sugar something;
2. Toast with strawberry jam;
3. Toast with mozarella cheese;
4. Vegetable noodle soup without the dried vegetables but with the powdered soup broth, a bit of parmesan cheese and a tiny bit of olive oil mayo;
5. Eggelach (egg yolks) cooked in plain boiled potato and mushroom soup;
6. Halloween sized Coffee Crisp bar to deal with the lack-of-coffee headache I had by about 9 PM.

Played it carefully today.  It’s 3:25 PM and I’m about ready to fall over again from tiredness so I may drink another gatorade just to keep my energy going long enough to pick my son up from school after work.  In the meantime, here is what I ate today that I seem to be managing ok with:

1. Coffee with YU basmati rice milk and 2 teaspoons of sugar (in the morning);
2. Eggelach;
3. Grilled cheese sandwich on toasted white bread;
4. Leftover potato mushroom soup heated up;
5. More black coffee (not the best idea – gave me heartburn).

Ugh.