H2O

H2O can be extremely dangerous for you. It turns out, I had no idea you could die from drinking everyday water. I was lucky though. I didn't end up dead, or with any lasting damage. Then again, after being told what I've had I googled the condition and I'm not sure it is what I had. Usually, people with water intoxication feel very ill and weak, there is some muscle spasming and general discomfort, potentially followed up by the loss of consciousness and in the worst cases a comatose or lethal outcome. My experience while similar in nature. I was feeling awful and weak, my stomach was twisting and turning like an Aerotrim. My legs and shoulders were spasming and my over vision was getting somewhat blurred. Hell, in fact, after consuming just short of three liters, the room was spinning and I couldn't stand straight.

I drank this much water after a workout, I guess you could say I was out of shape and ended up overdoing it. I came back home with my throat on fire, my muscles stinging as lactic acid ate away at my fibrous organs. I needed a drink, water, just tap water. I filled my bottle and drank it all down, my throat was screaming for more, so I filled it again and downed the whole thing again, and the thirst wouldn’t go away. So, I filled it up again and started drinking again, this time, I couldn't finish it as I was feeling full and the flashes of nausea popped in the back of my throat. I put my almost empty bottle on the counter and started walking around the apartment. The rooms immediately started shaking and spinning all around me. I felt as if I was in the middle of the ocean, with the waves bouncing all around me.

My stomach twisted and turned violently as gastric gases forced their way out of my mouth. I was getting dizzy and nauseous. My muscles started spasming and I was beginning to feel weary. I assumed it's the result of my body finally relaxing. I didn't think much of it and continued walking around the house waiting for my heartbeat to slow down before I sat down.

I passed by the large mirror in the hall between the bedrooms thinking it would be cool to show off to myself after working out for the first time in months. Bad mistake.

Instead of a reflection of a reddish man wheezing and shaking on his feet drenched in sweat I saw the image of a pale creature, shaking as if he was struck by fever, water pouring out of his skin. Not just sweating or even profusely sweating, but water outright pouring out of his skin, drenching his clothes and the floor. In gallons. There shouldn't be this much water inside the human body, my head was spinning and my vision was starting to fade. I thought I was just seeing things as a result of my exhaustion. Rubbing my eyes, I realized the sight before me didn't get any better.

In fact, the image in the mirror had gotten worse, chunks of flesh were being washed off, for a lack of a better term, from my bastardized reflection, beneath it, I saw patches of some gelatinous, watery thing. I was feeling too sick to be concerned with the whole situation

Just as a chunk of its face slid off, revealing a watery mug beneath it, my stomach was seized by an awful cramp so bad I felt as if my head had been split open. I felt something rising up my throat and just before I threw up all over myself, the whole world started fading to black. I hit my head on the mirror hard, and it cracked. As the blood poured from underneath my forehead, I saw the creature in the mirror smiling at me before a flow of clear liquid escaped from my mouth and everything went dark.

My wife found me laying on the floor, covered in water and blood, she took me to the hospital and the rest was history.

I was lucky enough to get out without any lasting damage, though one thing bothers me still, she said something about watery shoe prints all over the house, even though my shoes were dry.