{"id":293,"date":"2003-12-19T23:52:07","date_gmt":"2003-12-20T07:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=293"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T08:00:00","slug":"fever-in-the-morning-fever-all-through-the-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aprilgem.com\/log\/?p=293","title":{"rendered":"Fever in the Morning, Fever All Through the Night"},"content":{"rendered":"

The slight fever became more than slight, so I called work at eight in the morning and took a sick day. It’s a good thing I did. Within three hours, I followed a downward trend, and the fever grew worse. I was burning up, and I was in and out of consciousness. I made another phone call and an appointment, and in half an hour I had a thermometer underneath my tongue and a nurse telling me I had a temperature of 103.2.<\/p>\n

“Sounds like a radio station,” I joked weakly. I had to repeat it because my voice was almost totally gone.<\/p>\n

The nurse, a really nice filipina lady who coo-cooed over me, fretted and told me I was really, really sick. They made me stay there a couple of hours with cold compresses in my armpits and a warm blanket around me. They gave me Tylenol and antibiotics and took my temperature every hour. 102.6. 98.4.<\/p>\n

They wrote up a prescription for me and let me go home, but in the time I waited for my ride, my temperature jumped back up to 100.2. It has been rising and falling ever since.<\/p>\n

So here I’ve been all day, dehydrated, nauseated, hot, cold, achy all over, feeling as though I’m dying, bruised, and parched. I keep drinking water, but it doesn’t seem to help much; I keep pissing it all away. I’ve tried to eat, but I’ve thrown everything back up again. Everything tastes the same, like the weird coating on my tongue. Heck, it hurts to breathe, let alone talk. So far as I can tell, this is the worst day of my life.<\/p>\n

So, to make me feel a little better, H.E. gave me my Christmas present early—or perhaps he thought it best to give it to me before I died of the flu, who knows? Anyway, he gave me a digital camera.<\/p>\n

Not a crapera<\/a> that takes fauxtos<\/a>, but a camera that takes photos!<\/p>\n

I actually got to play around with it and take a couple of shots before the batteries died on me, but as soon as I can get new batteries and upload the shots to my computer, I will post some actual photos. None of the photos will be of me, however, as I’m still very, very sick. But finally, I have a reason to get over this flu and live.<\/p>\n

Which is probably a good thing. I’ve never been this sick before.<\/p>\nShare this post:

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The slight fever became more than slight, so I called work at eight in the morning and took a sick day. It’s a good thing I did. Within three hours, I followed a downward trend, and the fever grew worse. I was burning up, and I was in and out of consciousness. I made another phone call and an appointment, and in half an hour I had a thermometer underneath my tongue and a nurse telling me I had a…<\/p>\n

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