Nearly 6 pm, spent most of the day in bed trying to catch up on missed sleep. Had a rotten night battling a severe case of gastric reflux or as I started calling it early this morning, "black spew." Normally the dribbling discharge vomited up is a dark coppery colour, this last lot was black. Both are/were associated with a foul metallic taste in the throat & mouth. I got up for lunch but made things considerably worse by brewing up a strong coffee. Looks like I'm restricted to weak tea, milk and, while the supply lasts, kefir.