A Shockingly Aching Stomach

My stomach rarely gives trouble, but when it does, it does so with a vengeance. Just today, I came back from office and had a bowl of soup. Shortly after, my stomach began to roll like stormy sea. I could feel it writhing like a wounded serpent, like the proverbial Kracken. I could not sit up, could not lie down. Just sort of propped on one elbow, the other hand clutching my stomach, ashen face, grunting breaths, oh I was a picture indeed. I skipped dinner tonight. And as I write this, I am sipping pinapple flavoured saline water. It tastes horrible. But as always, I am an optimist. So I raise my glass to a better tomorrow...