Digestive diary

It’s been a rough few days in tummy land. I have realised that I get some really bad stomach effects when I have these bouts of recurrent meningitis, usually my gut is upset and I have diarrhoea but this time it‘s been gas-central!

Friday was another day of just being incredibly uncomfortable. I had a really bloated stomach from the moment I woke up,  all that gas which had been gurgling through my guts the night before had really been bloating me up and I went to the toilet where I let a whole bunch out as one long, forceful blast of wind after another. My poor tummy was bloated all day long and I couldn’t even face breakfast because I knew what the weetabix would do to me!

so I ended up feeling hungry and bubbly all day. I;ve become very familiar with painful hunger rumbles lately and I have to say, I don‘t like them! I like feeling full and stuffed and satisfied, I’ve felt so hollow and empty for so long. 

I was so desperate for real, solid food that I cooked a packet of potato waffles with baked beans that night, even though I was exhausted, and it felt soooo good finally having solid food inside me again! My stomach worked so violently on it, I could feel it churning away for ages, like it had been as desperate as the rest of me. Ohhhhh boy that was good! But afterwards I started to get an extremely bloated belly and it ached like crazy! I thought it was from eating so much after having little solid food lately but my stomach made it clear it wasn’t enjoying the beans, which I don’t usually have much of an issue with.

well. To say I was flatulent all night long is an understatement. Not only that but my stomach was so distended, I felt incredibly uncomfortable and luce says I was moaning in my sleep and clutching my gurgling stomach, letting out occasional farts! I had no idea about any of that and I was so humiliated when I woke up! I nursed a balloon belly all day, the air circling and gurgling inside of me something shocking! 

I was so uncomfortable first thing in the morning that I had to get a firm belly rub from luce. Her attenting rubbing of my swollen stomach ended with me letting out a very long, rumbling fart with the strain showing in my face! Afterwards I was about to sit up when my stomach let out a ridiculously loud gurgling, bubbling noise. Ohhhh that was ominous and I could feel all the gas shifting inside of me as I moved. Luce told me it was a very satisfying sound, like a sound effect from a movie, and patted my tummy before I rushed to the loo and let out a lot more gas

stupidly I ate weetabix for breakfast and the fibre only filled me up further with gas! I haven‘t had such an uncomfortably gassy day for a very long time!  I couldn;t eat for hours, I was too full of air, but I enjoyed soup in the evening, two tins as usual, but with a bit more bread than I have been eating, trying to get my capacity back to normal. I ended up with a rounded, bloated gut after that, the bread tends to swell inside of me and I already had all that sloshy soup in there , mixed with the endless wind I’ve been subjected to! Tummy rubs from luce were in order and my stomach gurgled and purred against her hand 💙 

Yesterday was the first day I started to actually feel a little better and my appetite started to return. I was really hungry when I woke up early in the morning so I had some chocolate digestive biscuits with milk, then I had weetabix a couple of hours later and some cheese and bread for a snack, and later on I managed to cook a couple of bacon sandwiches, 12 slices of bacon (fat and all) and 4 slices of bread, then I finished the day with a LOT of chocolate, milk and more chocolate biscuits, plus I was really craving coke so I drank about 4 litres total during the day and today I feel fatter and much, much better for it fkr the first time in weeks - hopefully things are looking up!