Sick Days

I've probably had a couple of flu episodes here and there, but last weekend was the worst I have had any kind of sickness, and it fell on the weekend, the days I usually have to work to actually live!

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Well, anyways, it started...
Friday afternoon: body malaise, feeling feverish
Friday night (working at the bar, my last shift there): body malaise worsened towards the end of the night, feeling feverish, on and off contracting headache then progressed to light-headedness
Saturday morning to afternoon: official fever (38.3 Celsius; never got a temp. this high back home), throat and neck pain, slight ringing in the ear, bad body malaise, feeling like crap
Saturday afternoon to evening: fever went down to 36.1 (hurray!) then went back up to 38.3 (boo!), and all the pain and hurt as above
Sunday: fever still going up and down, same pain and hurt, feeling like crap trampled on by a horse
Monday morning to afternoon: fever still going up and down but not as extreme as the day before, rest are the same as above, feeling like crap left alone by the horse
Monday afternoon to evening: highest fever reading ever 38.9 in the evening, but settled down to around 37 late at night, pain and body malaise improved

The most annoying part was the fever going up and down, up and down, up and down; and feeling like crap; and ... feeling like crap. It would have been fun to stay at home and bum for the heck of it, but nope. I just had to.

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Saw a doctor on Monday (the GPs here are not that.. accomodating or... nice.), it was apparently just a really really bad tonsilitis (infection of the tonsils). Figured that since I did everything EXCEPT get antibiotics (since I can't without a script). So yep. That's that. Interesting weekend. It really reminded me to be grateful 'bout my health.

So, kids out there, don't eat too much sweets... Or you'll end up with pustules on your tonsils as big as... peanuts.