How Comfortable Are You?

Original Post By www.MelissaGPfight.wordpress.com On May 13, 2014

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Here we go… no turning back now…

For years I have read many stories that seem similar and it just hit me that all the following events have the same psychological and physical traits.
What started this was my GP Sister, Emily.  She went to Disney World and of course got sick while in a park.  Did she go back to the hotel?  No.  Did she seek out the medical staff?  No.   She kept walking!

Some nights I don’t go to bed right away, so I need to sneak in and try not to wake my husband when it’s my bed time.  I’m sure most of us have done this at some point or will in the future.  But what amazes me is that I can crawl into bed and my husband in his sound sleep will roll over to hold me… in the same position that we normally start out together in.

So what do these two events have in common?  This is what I was thinking:

• Repetitive – to be able to vomit in public and keep walking shows that a person has done this a million times and it is just second nature.  Rolling over in bed to hold your spouse several hours after you fell asleep shows that your body knows the other person is there and remembers what the original sleeping position is -through repetition.
• Secure – you would have to be secure with your self to not let sickness in public bother you, to simply keep going.  In a relationship you build trust (or should -haha) and fall into mutual security (again -or should), that trickles subconsciously to roll your body over in bed.  Okay, that may be a long shot.

This brings me to reading other cases of gastroparesis plagued people vomiting in: stores, on the street, at a school desk, out side a car in traffic and even me on my wedding day.   Each one of us wiped out chin (literally) and continued on with what we were doing.  Yes, I did get married that day!

I invite you to take a look at Emily’s blog (here) and for those of you that are on Facebook, to join Emily’s Stomach (here).   If you want to find me on the different social media sites, click HERE for a list (Emily’s links are there as well as some other GPer’s).


Obviously this wasn’t me.  Mine was in a trash can that my mother was holding for me, while my groom awaited me wondering if the wedding was going to happen.  After a delay -for the bride- I walked down the isle and nothing else mattered.   If I wasn’t sick, I could have enjoyed the reception more, but I was there, we danced and in the end it could have been a lot worse!  15 years with my guy and we are still going strong … so don’t let GP get you down.  You are much stronger than you know, just keep going!