Weddingbee

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 know EXACTLY what you’re describing. Its from stress. I just got engaged recently and was stressed out about telling my parents. I woke up one morning with a red bump on my neck — same red bump as you have described. It doesn’t hurt or anything. Just not very visually appealing. I initially thought it was a bite too, but nope. It was stressed. Its SLOWLY disappearing since we’ve already talked to my parents and told them the news.

I know its hard, but just try to relax…

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

Yup. A week before the wedding, I started breaking out (really badly) all over my chest and neck. I’ve never had that happen before.

Luckily, it calmed down some the day of the wedding, but it didn’t totally go away until after the honeymoon.

I woke up with a zit in my nose!

Chronic, MFing acne. GRRRRHHHHHH.

I was shopping for shoes yesterday and banged my ankle against those mirrored stools that are all over shoe stores - HARD. At least I had the presence of mind to merely mouth the obscenities instead of barking them the way I do at home when something like that happens : )

To Abi: I attended a wedding several years ago where a similar thing happened to the groom. In fact, he was supposed to have his cast removed the day before the wedding - but then he slipped and fell on a slick sidewalk. He still had the cast removed, replaced with an air cast type of thing, which he was able to hide under his pants, and made it up and down the aisle without his crutches. I’m pretty sure his tears were of joy, not pain.

I totally also developed a left-eye twitch about 2 months before the wedding! It’s gone now (almost 2 months after) but it was definitely acutely wedding-stress related. Our bodies just can’t keep up with our wedding-craziness.

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.