Diarrhea: When Sh*t Happens, Explicitly.

Oh, so you say toothache is the worst kind of ache in the world. Well, why don't you try DIARRHEAAA.

This is (so far) the most underestimated "ache" by human being. At least by me. Reason is, I never had one. Until now. I don't know how it starts... I don't know what freaking food trigger is.. what I know now is... Shit happens. Explicitly!

There goes all the planaheads, all 10 to-do-list beautifully crafted to be  finished once-and-for-all by this week, my 3 classes presences, and the ability to appreciate food. So here's to sum up the diary of Sarah fighting diarrhea, just in case if you happen to get one, you know what NOT to do.

Day 0 - this monday.
My body was in constant nag. It is like an invisible rope tighten in every joint of mine, trying to lag every step I took. "Maybe it was because of  those two-afternoons-in-a-row jogging, which is like, since 2 years ago." I thought. Then, on a stormy afternoon, I woke up from a pain-combatting nap with waterfall dripping all over my body, and a hot forehead. Wait what - a fever?

Day 1 - this tuesday. 
Slept with horrorly-woken-up for 200 times, all sweaty and hot (eww..). "OK, I am so in fever." convinced me to myself, ready to take some orange-flavoured crunchable kiddos fever tablet a.k.a. INZANA :3  (oh yes, Paracetamol is sooo dangerous). Until... I finally get up with urge to, you know, Nature calls. Which is also...waterfalls. Ugh, no. no. no.  Best thing - dorm's water supply has a trouble for autofill the main tanks, hence at first there is no water at all to poo. Use drinking water in bottles instead. I miss my mum :(

Waterfall comes out again and again and again. This is NOT fever, gentlemen. this. is. the. freaking. DIARHEEAAA. First time had I encounter this fellow, yet he is so mean. I was left motionless, mindless, purposeless (except to store waterfalls) on my bed by these powerful bacterias inside my tummy. Total bedrest.

D-COMBAT 1# POWDER ORALIT

I still saved one back from my first-aid-kit in 2010 for Freshman Training Camp. Woooohooooo, an ancient recipe. Expired in 2016 though.. I read the label that says..

for 12 years and above :12 glasses. 

WTF??? 12 glasses of oralite-water to be drink in a row??? are you insane???
well, since I had just one sachet at all, why not give it a glass try?
... not working. Too low dose the bacterias laughing at me now. 

D-COMBAT 2# D****T CAPSULES : from my first aid kit yet again. I actually admires the herbal composition as it is composed by leaf of delima, peels of kunyit, and everything else convincingly cool (YES, I hate modern pharmacy). But, buddy, you make one HUGE mistake. IT IS CAPSULES! Capsules are, one of the last thing I can swallow peacefully since 5 y.o. So I poured out the content to spoon and drank.
... no change. vomit now. 

D-COMBAT 3# BlACK TEA+HONEY

 it is popular, right? that deep, black tea can cure the D. So, very nicely my partner gave me a visit with a requested box of tea and two doughnuts which was for my breakfast, lunch, and dinner, since I cannot swallow anything.
...provide a very calming warm effect to the disturbed belly. Yet, no significant change. But, recover my stamina to open some important e-mails. Thanks, partner :*









 Day 3 - this wednesday.
my stamina has come back a bit...  could read some journal stuff. My partner yet nicely came again with black-tablet-oralite and strawberry juice which was claimed to help stop diarrhea. "HUH! See who got stuff here!" yelled me to the bacteria army.

D-COMBAT 4#D**TABS ORALITE IN TABLET:

works wonderfully! It shrinkes waterfalls into loser mud volcano (if you don't understand, God bless you). I gained my confidence, that nothing is impossible. Can eat Tom Yum without protests.
but wait... the mud volcano consistently pour small.... 








 Day 4 - today.
"This is the last day of your existence!!!!" claim me on the victory of diarrhea combat. And to my partner, too. Small eruptions did not matter... maybe it just the last stuff to push out.
....until I decided to eat a portion of Sirloin steak for my dinner, which is also my lunch (its hard to want to eat anything with this kind of clingy colon, duh).

THE D STRIKES AGAIN!!! WITH POWER NO LESS THAN THE FIRST STRIKE!!! AAARGHHH!!

D-COMBAT 5# IMODIUM tablet

  also called as level-2 oralite. It is just a 2 mm sphere yet (hopefully) so powerful. Well, you can see, as right now I can type this without a follow-up urge to go to the toiled since 1 hr ago, can say THIS IS IT. Woohow.










Moral of the story
1. If you have one, go for D**tabs. It is good enough. If it does not work.. well wait for my result in Imodium.
2. Diarrhea is a b*tch.  If you catch one, follow my no.1 advice without delay, before your world fell apart.
3. Shit happens.. deal with it.

Wish me luck. I will come back for medicacy updates.
Doctors? last, last option. Why? I told you, I hate modern pharmacy... and they tend to give me all of it, no offense.