Too sick for fun?
By fwidman
@fwidman (11514)
United States
March 20, 2009 2:05pm CST
I've really been down with this flu bug for too long. I was feeling better each day and decided yesterday that I felt good enough to go bowling for my league. I really hated the thought of missing two weeks in a row
I didn't feel all that hot but I really thought that once I got there the bowling fever would kick in and I'd be fine. Boy was I wrong! I felt more and more miserable with every ball I tossed down the alley and couldn't wait until the game was over. I bowled thirty pins under my average and a game my team should have won, we lost I sat down next to the captain and told him to put me in as absent the last two games, I was going home, and that's exactly what I did. Everyone there was shocked, they have rarely ever seen me go home in the middle of a set, I love bowling that much!
So, tell me, when is the last time you had to stop having fun because you were too sick to continue?
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16 responses
@moonchild1au (6237)
• Australia
21 Mar 09
I know, don't you hate that!! I normally have an average anywhere between 160 - 190 & when I bowl when I'm sick, sometimes I'm lucky to bowl a 130 game which of course brings my average down & I wonder why I ever bowled in the first place!! So I know exactly how you feel.
@moonchild1au (6237)
• Australia
21 Mar 09
I don't think your team mates would get rid of you...just remember that bowling in a league is also about the social & fun aspects as well as the competition.
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@fwidman (11514)
• United States
21 Mar 09
And besides all that they need me for my handicap I have had some bad seasons, right after I hurt my back, and I thought they'd not ask me to return but the captain did ask me, and I was the first one on the team he asked. I was pleasantly surprised
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@MaryLynn321 (2680)
• United States
21 Mar 09
It has happened to me more times then I would like to admit. I have IBS (Irritable bowel syndrome) and it acts up whenever, sometimes I have warnings, and other times I don't. It just comes on, hot and cold sweats, nausea, chills, cramps, diarrhea. The best place to be is at home. It is too hard to concentrate when feeling that miserable.
Hope you feel better soon.
Will keep you in our prayers for a speedy recovery.
@MaryLynn321 (2680)
• United States
21 Mar 09
Yes they have medications, that help, but doesn't not completely stop it. I use to take a nerve pill for it, which helped. You have to watch the kinds of food you eat, and stop eating what triggers the attacks (that is what I call them). No it definitely is not any fun, but one learns to live with it, and for some of us, it gets a bit better and manageable over time.
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@kerriannc (4279)
• Jamaica
22 Mar 09
Hey fwiddy sorry that you are sick. I have not have fun since the last two and half years. It was devastated now that I have started back and seeing what I have missed. But I know that you are a soldier and will bounce back again. I told you about that honey and cinnamon powder didn't you try it out. Anyway take care
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@greenglitterturtle (2750)
• United States
1 Apr 09
hi fwid...that sounds mighty miserable. now that last time i had to stop having fun was way back at new year's 2000. i was so excited about it. we went to a neighbors party and had a great time. then i went home and was standing in the yard watching another neighbor's fireworks. i was still so happy and excited about it turning the year 2000. i was looking forward to going shopping the next day in the brand new year. the first day of 2000. but alas as i was standing and watching the fireworks i started to feel very sick. and i felt diarrhea coming on. i couldn't finish watching the fireworks that i was enjoying. i had to tear myself away and run to the bathroom. then i also was violently nauseous. i was vomiting for 4 hours. i was miserable the next day. in bed all day. and the next. and couldn't go to work the next day. people at work thot i celebrated the new years by drinking too much. but i don't drink. it started to be the most exciting new years of my life but ended up being the most miserable new years of my life.
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@greenglitterturtle (2750)
• United States
1 Apr 09
no fwid...that wasn't a good thing. your observation and grasp of the situation is on target.
@clorissa123 (4926)
• United States
21 Mar 09
I never had such experience myself. But if you are really sick, you should consider your health first. The bowling set is always there. You can't have fun this time, you always have next time. Don't worry about it, get well soon!
@littleowl (7157)
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21 Mar 09
Hi fwidman..have been there..last November until February this year I have been very ill with the flu, colds and viruses, so can understand where you are coming from. All I felt like doing was sleeping and then when up water was my favourite drink and food didn't even bother me...littleowl
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@mimico (3617)
• Philippines
21 Mar 09
When 'm sick, I get worried about my health. I'm not sickly so when something's wrong, I know that something's wrong. it's not a usual thing for me that I just shrug it off. if I have the energy, I'll go online and check out ways to treat my sickness. If not, I'll just stay in bed and get lots of sleep until I feel better. I'd rather be fully cured than half cured, you know? :)
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@tamarafireheart (15384)
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21 Mar 09
Hi fwidman,
So sorry to hear you are not feeling well, it seems that this flu bug is going round, and hope you will feel better, stay indoors and in bed before you have a relaps, if I don't feel well I won't go out, thats what happened to me few months ago whe my friends and I planed to go out on a girls night out and I felt ill and couldn't go out, I stayed in bed and sulked.
Tamara
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@Opal26 (17679)
• United States
21 Mar 09
Hey fwidman~I'm so sorry to hear that you are feeling so bad!
The flu takes awhile to get over! Unfortuanately it does take
alot out of you and you really need to rest until you really
are feeling better. And it can take more than two full weeks.
I know that sucks, but if you really want to get back to
feeling yourself you must rest and let it take its course. I
do hope that you will feel better soon! Now get off the computer
and back to bed!
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@Chevee (5905)
• United States
21 Mar 09
I am sorry to hear that you were to sick to finish the game. the weather is still cold outside and I know it is colder where you are. What is done is done, but you shouldn't have went there. Take better care of yourself next time the team will understand.
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@lynnemg (4529)
• United States
21 Mar 09
Last Februaury, around Valentine's Day I was so sick that even the thought of trying to have fun made me queasy. After a few days, I thought I could handle playing a video game with the kids, and five minutes into it, I had to stop. The room started spinning and I just couldn't do it.
I hope that by next week, you are feeling back to normal. I imagine that as long as your are feelling better, you will try again though, especially since you enjoy it so much!
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@ada547612 (203)
• China
21 Mar 09
I also enjoy bowling, I do not know you are not a pro! And bowling are my hobbies! However, I do not play well, how about you!
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@fwidman (11514)
• United States
21 Mar 09
I am a long, long way from being a pro! I bowl well enough for an old guy, I guess. My average is the lowest on my team at 163. The rest of the team can really throw some strikes! My captain could be a pro if he didn't dislike the traveling so much. He easily averages in the 220's. Lucky guy!
@jew_kinse (3)
• Philippines
21 Mar 09
Hi fwidman, you know what I also love to bowl, well I also have an experience like you had. I was sick because of a flu and I also got measles, and all my friends are having fun that time, I can't come because of my sickness and I felt very sad, but after that sad weeks, I recover and try to cope up in having fun, don't worry I think your captain understands you, and I hope it won't happen again... =
@gitfiddleplayer (10362)
• United States
20 Mar 09
Being sick is a bummer, I haven't been ill for a while, just run down when I do too much, hope you feel better.
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