"Everything in Moderation--Even moderation!"
That's a hard one to put to practice when you're wired with the metabolism of an Energizer bunny, but I hear ya.
Hey Sue, Just wondering how sure you are it was a bug and not caused by lack of cannabis? The symptoms you're describing are exactly how I feel when I have to take a break. The feeling of wanting to vomit, hot/cold flashes, extreme cramping and lack of appetite. Even after getting some cannabis in my system it takes a day or 2 before I'm feeling back to normal. I've read a few different articles on this and it seems more common then one would think.
Happy to hear you're feeling better!!
Part of what I dealt with was explosive stools, not a common thing for the abstinence. The daughter has a history of IBS, which we've controlled pretty much with her canna cap regimen,mand she reported the same elimination uptick on the same day. We tracked it back to a shared meal about four days back. We don't often eat together, and this was too much of a coincidence.
I've been through the protocol once RheinRover, and although there were elements of confusion, appetite misfires, irritability and such, there wasn't any of the severe shaking and retching accompanied by the elimination distress. Those symptoms, however, are common to food poisoning. Tagging food poisoning can be difficult, since the bug can take two weeks to show system distress.
Whatever it was, I'm feeling almost 100% today. Still some residual fatigue, but appetite has stabilized, and I slept really well.
Incidentally, for anyone growing Blue Dream, if you don't pair this chemovar up with sexual adventures you're cheating yourself to one of the wonders of the cannabis world. At the risk of offering TMI, although my personal sex life is solitary, this chemovar has brought a flavor of joy to the sessions I've yet to experience with any other chemovar I've used.
This delightful benefit of the Blue Dream was recommended to me by another member, and now I've passed that golden tidbit on to all of you. Do with it what you will.
What method did you settle on? Bleach?
Nope. I won't be using bleach again. I soak the perlite for hours, stirring every time I go by the sink. If there's still lots of nutrient left it leeches out. Occasionally I rinse and resoak, if there's color in the water after soaking.
Then I rinse as thoroughly as I can, using a couple strainers I've designated for this chore and bake the perlite in the oven on a designated baking tray - 200 degrees F for 2-3 hours. Sometimes I don't hear the alarm and forget about it. I'm getting it down to a system now. Th new batch gets tossed in to soak at bedtime, or morning if I forget, and then I work through that batch as the day progresses. This time of year the oven running helps to keep the apartment warm.
There's not much smell to it at all while baking. I flush at least three times in the week leading up to harv st,mand this has apparently been cleaning much of the residue out. I've used the cleaned for a couple plants now with no problems arising, so I think it's working.
AKgramma mentioned using the microwave, which sounds like an excellent idea. I don't know how long you'd need to cook them, but I do know that when you sterilize soil in the microwave it's in two pound batches. Two pounds of perlite would be excessive in bulk, I'd think. Sooner or later I'll figure that out, because that'd be the preferred method in summer.
Of course if I plan it right I'm using fresh in the summer and reclaimed in the winter.
Good morning everyone 
I'm feeling soooo much better and stronger today. It's such a shock to my Energizer bunny mentality to have to take a down day.
All day long I had this sense that there were things that needed tending to. Lol! I was well-behaved, and the most strenuous thing I attempted was a walk across the street to accompany the daughter to the store. It can still be a challenge for her sometimes to head out into the world alone, and I find it more soothing to just tag along.
Before I get the morning drenches going, a little gardening joy, why not?
Here marks the spot of the branch that got the nanner treatment. Those little buggers are rediculously tiny, and in the end what I did was to bury a nanner in each blossom of this branch.
Then I buried one in this bud that sits right under the light. I almost walked out of the room without marking the treated branch and blossom.
Only time will tell. I put a request in with the universe to allow this crude first attempt to be successful. It's out of my hands now.
My first attempt at seed making.
She sits isolated from the rest of the harem, and I'll keep the door closed so the furnace won't broadcast the pollen all through my living space.
Candy Cane gets her second flush today. I've been checking the trichomes first thing every morning. Ok...I'll be honest...many times a day. Lol! She's about two-thirds through the flush from clear to cloudy, so right on schedule for a Sunday harvest.
This is my fourth one I've grown, and every one shocks me with how encrusted they become.
Into the steamy shower and on with the joyful day. Join me in being overwhelmingly joyful in your response to today's happenings, and sit back at the day's end and simply review the difference this deliberate state of mind brought to your experience.
Then get up tomorrow and engage the cosmos in play all over again.
It's as easy as that to transform your life into something that often feels magical. Dare to be deliberately joyful and potentiate the song of love that drives the expansion of the universe.
I'll be over here by the Mighty Mon, doing my part.
Later my friends.
Let it add fuel to your own expression. Now get out there and share it with everyone lucky enough to come near you. 
Good Lord, the boy has lungs most of us would kill for. 
