The Sick Entry

Yeah I know...I don't usually MIA for so long a stretch. Life went on more or less the same...nothing unusual or special happened. Well, except for those usual mundane stuff.

Let's see...I shall attempt to recount each upsetting/sad/happy/funny/whatever that I can recall incident...allow me to bore you with this entry *grin* I just want to grumble ok...*humpt*

I fell ill about two weeks ago, thanks to that virus generously contributed by Cindy. Ha...She fell ill first with stomach flu, but I believe there was a bigger mutant virus going round. By the end of that week, she seemed to be on the way to recovery. And then I caught it from her. It was Friday, and I was supposed to join the office peeps to celebrate Tricia's bday after I'm done with Attic Cafe. But thank God, they were ready to leave just as I was done. Initially I was rather sore about it, that they didn't wait for me. But by then, I wasn't exactly clear-headed anymore. Somehow I managed to stumble home and it was downhill all the way.

I foraged for medicine, tried self-medicating, only to realise to my horror that my trusty fever medicine was gone. Zilch! I took another type and tried to sleep. Couldn't of course...had the chills, running high on fever, ultra bad cough, flu and fill-in-with-whatever-you-can-think-of illness...

But what made it worse that the effects of the medicine was supposed to last 6hrs, but by the 2nd hour, the fever crept back. That night, I was delirious, and I believed I overdosed on that fever medicine. Through the night, I kept ingesting the medicine whenever the effect went off in the 2hr. Dangerous, I know. To make things worse, I could barely wake up on Sat, that by the time I woke up, it was noon time, clinic was closed. Both my usual family docs. I didn't think it would escalate, so I decided to wait till Sun (rather than go on to another doc) to see my family doc if necesary. I huddled in bed, cowering (from the chills) under my thick quilt without the fan/aircon on...But I just couldn't perspire! By night time, my fever was running so high I think it ran off-course. I was so delirious, I couldn't get up at all. To make things worse, I was the only one at home. And seriously, I began to feel really frighten. Never before have I fell ill to that extent. I was totally delirious, and felt so helpless and alone then.

Anyways, I managed to see the doc only on Monday, and took MC that day. I was actually given a two-day MC, but I went back to work on Tues. My backlog was piling sky-high. It was actually a mistake, seriously. I wasn't well yet, and I ended up running a high fever in office, coupled with all the other ailments. Coming to think of it, I was almost like better off dead. Ha! And guess what, I was issued some very strong, but equally expensive antibiotics - a whopping $30 for 10 pills! The medical bills that trip whipped the wind out of me. Anyways, I went back to the doc again on Weds in the morning, and was given yet another two days of MC..but I went back to work after the trip to the clinic. This time, I was issued an even stronger antibiotics - imagine, a little pill of 385g dosage each time, twice a day. Previously was 200g dosage each time, and that was pretty strong already. Expensive again of course. Damn...just when I'm so ultra broke this month that I had to fall ill...so costly at that...gosh...

This time, the doc told me to return for another consultation that Friday. And if I were not well by then, he would issue me marching orders to the hospital *gasp* Sounds serious man! Never before have I fell THAT ill...on that scale. Fever lasting more than a week! Makes me wonder now what potent mutated viral thingy that was...*ponders*

Anyways, I'm alive and kicking and well now...and have generously passed on the virus to the next person too, just as Cindy did...muahahaha! Isabel got some phelgm that took awhile to clear, but nothing serious...Eve came down with a bad flu, Charis fever, Moses fever and some others...Worst was Cindy I guess...the virus in her body never did clear out, and she fell ill all over again..as it is, she still is ill now, though recovering.

The sometimes-warped me do enjoy falling ill every now and then (though based on that definition, I didn't really have that privilege), coz I get to be pampered and showered with worried people around me...but then the virus this time was really frightening...

*shudders*

Ok, I think this entry is too chong-hei alredy. I still have stuff to rush, clothes to pack, study table to tidy...gotta pen off now. Till the next entry then.