I tried to rest but a feeling that something was wrong persisted. Why was I so cold? Our apartment wasn't warm but I felt chilled to the bone and I was wearing my snuggie. Why did my body hurt so much? I hadn't done anything to justify the achiness and it felt like more than just tiredness. After a bit of time, I decided to take my temperature.
I hadn't had a fever over 100 in years, but I really didn't want to go back to the doctor. It would be my 4th visit to the doctor in 8 days. I hoped that it would pass during the day, but it didn't. I rested at home while working, ate a sandwich, tried to warm up, but I still felt sick. I had a headache, sinus ache, earache, congestion, body aches from head to toe, a fever that fluctuated between 100 and 101, constant chills, and coughing. I tried to self-diagnosis and came up with the flu. I did get a flu shot that fall but knew it was still possible that I caught a different strain of the flu.
Finally in the afternoon I forced myself to go over to the walk-in doctors at Duane Reade. I needed to make sure I didn't have the flu. They thought it was some sort of virus and could be a 24 hour virus or the flu. She advised me to take a sick day on Monday, and if it wasn't over by the end of the day, it was probably the flu. Great, another sick day. People at work were going to think that I was some lazy slacker with all these sick days even though I was legitimately sick and felt like complete crap.
We went back home, ordered Thai for dinner, and I tried to rest some more. By the end of the night, my temperature started going down to around 99 and I hoped that meant it was a 24 hour bug.
I was so sick of being sick. What a crappy feeling. But it was nothing compared to what was to come.
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