tummy trouble

One of the worst aches that you can ever experience is the one that involves your stomach.

It’s ironic how your tummy has a weird way of repaying you after feeding it stuff that it’s been craving for for weeks.

In the past few days, I’ve treated it to countless dishes I rarely eat in the US and it punishes me by giving me a nasty case of a stomach ache.  Either that or it’s being a brat and throwing a wild tantrum because I wasn’t making sure what it ingested was kosher.

It’s one of the sicknesses I hate the most because to me, it’s the most inconvenient.

Nobody wants to suddenly get that jab of pain or the bubblies when you’re in the subway or bus and far away from a toilet.

You wouldn’t want to have to break into a cold sweat when you’re in the middle of class while you tell yourself to hold it only to find out when you’re seated on that porcelain throne, that it was a false alarm.

Or discovering that after running all over Macy’s looking for the restroom that they don’t have toilet paper or hand soap.

But if you think about it nursing a bothered belly has its advantages.

After coming home from a week long southeast asian sojourn, being down with the stomach flu gives me enough time, albeit divided between running to my bed and toilet, to get my body clock back on US eastern time. Sure, my sleeping pattern is still whacked with me sleeping at 11pm, waking up at 3am, then falling back to sleep at 9am but at least I’m not nodding off in the classroom.

The thing with attending classes at night is that I miss out on all the good TV shows that are shown while I’m trying to understand the definition of hypothesis and why theory x or theory y is relevant in my career. But now that I have nothing else to do between bathroom breaks at night, I can finally catch up on The Voice, Modern Family, and more bullshit on QVC.

I haven’t worked out in a long time. In fact, the last time I did, they played Adele in the gym  so instead of pumping iron to feel good, I sat down and felt bad. But who needs the gym now when a stomach flu can make you lose weight just by laying in bed sleeping? It still constitutes the age old fitness saying – no pain, no gain. Without the stomach spasms, you won’t get your abs back!