A terrible stomachache started this morning. I had no recollection of having had bad food the previous night and I was afraid I had gotten some malignant disease in the abdomen. While I was wondering if I had some medicine in my house, a severe diarrhea started and at the same time I was relieved to see that it was just because of a gastrointestinal infection, not a malignant disease. Though I felt relieved, my severe stomachache was continuing.
I had some appointments with patients today and had to make a general round in the wards. I got to my office anyway, but I felt a disabling fatigue from dehydration and I got drip infusion.
As you know, a drip infusion needs at least a few hours and it means that I had to cancel all of my schedule today. Since I had a stomachache, I was being pressed to think that I had to work today as usual, but I gave them up. I had medication in my office. Peculiarly, there's a kind of freedom in being completely screwed because you know things can't get any worse. I could enjoy a DVD movie titled "FRESHMAN" starring Marlon Brando in the daytime of a weekday. I found the phrase "There's a kind of freedom in being completely screwed because you know things can't get any worse" in this movie, and I thought that it was really true.
(Vocabulary)
have no recollection of ～した覚えはない
disabling 障害をもたらす, 無力にする
There's a kind of freedom in being completely screwed because you know things can't get any worse.
不幸も限界を超えると開放感がある（映画Freshmanで気に入ったフレーズ）
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