Wednesday morning I started having chest pains. Followed by a sore throat and cough. Then a stuffy nose. Headache. Fatigue. Fever. Nausea.
All of this happened so gradually throughout the day, that I excused each new symptom as insignificant--until the fever. While chest pains, sore throats, coughs, stuffy noses, headaches, and fatigue are all pretty common in my life, fevers are not.
So I packed up a few changes of clothes at my apartment and headed over to my parents' house to be sick. Once my mother decided I had swine flu, she ordered me to stay in my bedroom and banned me from other parts of the house.
For the past 4 1/2 days I have not ventured much beyond my bedroom and the bathroom immediately next to it. I have been down to the end of the hall a few times to call to my mother when she was downstairs. And once today, when my parents were at church, I went into the kitchen to get some juice.
Since I am the only one in my family who is sick, I am left pretty much alone. My parents bring me food and medicine, but they do not linger near my room for fear of infection.
These past few days I have become better friends with Hulu and Netflix online than I ever hoped to be.
While the rest and relaxation has been nice--sort of--I'm pretty much ready to get on with life am hoping to be well in time for the baby shower I'm throwing on Saturday because I don't think swine flu was invited.
3 comments:
Linderina, boo. Sounds un-fun. Hope you feel better soon. (And since when are chest pains normal?)
Oh, no! I hope you're feeling better now. And that you didn't pass on the swine flu to the poor girl you threw the party for, since infected pregnant women have a 1 in 3 chance of dying of it.
Aren't I a ray of sunshine today?
I am doing better now. And don't worry, Julie, I was no longer contagious at the time of the baby shower--plus the baby shower recipient, my sister-in-law Bonnie, has been vaccinated.
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