Painful

When I was lying in my bed last night after my curry, my tummy felt very burny. I hate that feeling, it’s as if my stomach lining is being eaten away by acid. So then I remembered my Dad’s old remedy for indigestion; to take bicarbonate of soda dissolved in a glass of water. Not that he ever ate curry because he found it to be too spicy for him, but many other things gave my Dad indigestion. So I padded downstairs, found some bicarbonate of soda in the cupboard where we keep baking ingredients, stirred a heaped teaspoon of it into a glass of water and knocked it back. Back in bed I felt a sense of foreboding as my stomach became more and more tight and painful. I sat up and let forth a belch that sounded like machine gun fire. The pain got worse and worse, and I ended up vomiting copiously which brought some relief, although I still felt as if I had a big balloon of air inside me. I’m not quite sure what I did wrong; I suspect that I took too much bicarbonate of soda and quaffed it too fast. Finally I got a few hours of sleep.
In the morning I was exhausted but my tummy was mostly ok, although I kept passing a veritably Herculean quantity of wind. I mean a LOT. I went swimming with Cat and Chanel in the morning, I had thought that I might be too tired after the horrors of the night before, but actually it was great fun and we had a wee sauna and steam too. Then in the afternoon I needed to go into town for my mammogram. It was awful as usual, so sore, but I do realise that it’s very important. I was extremely relieved when it was over and have had a pleasant and relaxing evening. I’m now tucked into bed and I’m not in pain, hooray!