Wedding Blog

I had a lovely stomach virus surface last week (well, really, it started the Friday before that, right in time for my friend’s bridal shower). It completely killed my appetite and derailed working out that entire time (save for occassionally wanting bowls of pasta and ricotta cheese), but it seems to have finally gotten out of my system. Nasty little bugger….

I was fine before the wedding and all through the day itself, but the day after on our flights to Mexico I was miserably sick. I had what I thought was a cold the entire honeymoon (hardly any beach drinks for me because I was drugged up on cold pills). When I got back, the cold turned into a cough which ended up being a raging case of pertussis (whooping cough). All my wedding guests had to get tested for it and I had a chronic cough for the first 8 months of my marriage. Yuck.

I got this mysterious rash on my left leg. It itched like crazy, but never spread anywhere else. Was there for a week! I also sprained my ankle and tore a ligament going down my stairs as I was leaving to try on wedding dresses. 4 months and $1,000 later, it’s starting to feel better, but I went ahead and bought wedding shoes with only a 1″ heel to try and prevent me from rolling my ankle again on my wedding day! Finally, I’ve broken out on my face again like high school. I assume it’s the stress and probably my caffeine intake to keep me awake! Just try not to worry about it; I’m sure it will go away soon

Oh dear, lets see.

I have a twitch in my right eye that just started, a weird rash on both of my elbows, I broke my big toe so it’s hard to wear pretty much any shoe but flip flops, and my face is breaking out like crazy.

Three days before my wedding, I woke up nauseous, and ended up spending about 5 hours hooked up to an IV in the ER. Despite several tests, the doctors never could figure out what it was, but they filled me with fluids and who knows what else. I slept for the next 18 hours. I’d been under a ton of stress at work and then planning the wedding, but I was so happy about getting married. I didn’t want to think that stress alone could make me that ill. I still felt off the next day, and it wasn’t until my bridesmaids got me out of the house for a quick dinner that I started to feel a bit better. I was up the entire night that Thursday finishing an assigment for work. I emailed it to my boss at 7:30 a.m., just in time to meet up with several of our guests for white water rafting. My mom said I was crazy to go, considering how sick I was, but I felt great the whole time we were rafting. During the drive back from rafting, I listened to my voice mail message, there was one from our photographer that he wouldn’t be able to make our rehearsal dinner - tummy hurt. Then my mom called to tell me that there was a problem with the flowers - more tummy hurt. I think you get the picture. Apparently, it was the stress causing the problem. The only real solution for me was to get away from the stressors. The morning of the wedding, I pretty much secluded myself and listened to some of my favorite music. Having those few hours was invaluable in getting me through the day. The wedding was beautiful, and my tummy stayed pretty well settled. However, it wasn’t until the reception was fully under way that I started to feel like myself again.