Aug 27 2008
Day 67
This was the last day of our holiday and the day we travel home.
The day started really bad for me. For an unknown reason I awoke with severe diarrhoea this morning. This is a bad day to get this so I took some imodium tablets to stop it. Normally I would allow the cause to flush through but we were checking out of the hotel by 11:00 am. and wouldn’t be catching the boat until 7:00 pm. seeing us home by about 10:30 pm. That is a long time to be without a toilet or a familiar base!
We had planned a day out at the Pleasure Beach which is a fun fair/theme park. We continued with the plan but I felt progressively worse through the day. I started to get a temperature and felt pain on the skin on my back and in my joints. The high temperature led me to think that the diarrhoea was bacterial. All I wanted to do was lie down and go to sleep. We had nowhere to lie down and I knew I was many hours away from getting home.
I persevered pushing myself through the day and was a bit relieved when we started the drive to the boat as I could let me body rest. I haven’t felt this bad for a long time and at times just wanted to rollover and let it all stop.
After the boat journey we got back to the Isle of Man and reached the house at 10:30 pm.
I unpacked the car and went straight to bed where I fell asleep almost immediately. I didn’t have time or energy to eat, see to the kids (thanks Nicola) or anything else.