I was okay...

[ewilkins]

It happened Saturday night. Not with me, but my wife. We had seafood for lunch and she ended up with food poisoning. A short while back I began watching YouTube videos of people getting sick in order to try to help myself. I suppose it worked because I was pretty calm. I was able to assist her as needed and keep my cool. I admittedly was unable to sleep during the night, for fear she was going to awaken and get sick again (her ordeal lasted about an hour). Then later during the night I did get a bit anxious wondering if I too would be sick. I didn't eat the same thing she did, but I was still panicking a bit. I wasn't 100% calm later, but I did make some progress and was admittedly proud of myself.

I'm still not okay with the idea of doing it myself, but at least I know I can be around someone else and be at least somewhat okay.

[transcend6887]

That's good news! I go into panic when my boyfriend gets sick (its not big deal to him) On the evening of my birthday he was really ill and I was wondering how I would sleep next to him fearing he would get up and be sick. I made it through okay as well ( it took a lot of reminding myself everything is okay) and I didn't sleep as well as I had hoped but I think I always project it to be worse than it really is.