- Really sore throat, hard to swallow and almost no voice
- Headache
- Fatigue
- Fever (chills, too hot and too cold at the same time)
- Ringing/Aching ears
- Back aches
- Tight back and chest
Strep throat? Nope. Flu? Nope. Ear/Sinus infections? Nope. Mono? Nope. TB? Nope.
Bubonic Plague? Maybe.
Diagnosis? "The Whitman College Crud" (quote from the nurse at school).
Not particularly inspiring and the cure is to take Tylenol and wait it out. So here I am, spending day four in bed. Today I went to class (one class.. my only class on Wednesdays) and it completely wore me out. I don't really remember the content of the class (I know what story we talked about at least) and I'm relatively certain my contributions weren't worth much. My professor commented that I looked "heavily medicated". Great.
I suppose the biggest symptom -- the one that should tell everyone just how completely lousy I feel -- is that I've felt too tired and out of it to knit. This might be the longest I've gone since I started knitting without knitting at least a little.
Here is a list of things I accomplished while I was sick (because I like lists).
- An outline and annotated bibliography for a research paper for "Art Since 1945"
- Watched all of "Harper's Island"
- Ran the dishwasher
And that's it. I did pass my orals last week though! I'm super glad that I got that out of the way before I got sick; I don't think I could have passed in my current condition. So big hooray for completing senior requirements!
On the plus side, Kelsey G. bought the Swirly Headband in "Yakima" today! Woo! Hopefully she'll take some pictures when she wears it so I can post them here.
sounds like Mono, actually.
ReplyDeletesleep it off! and suck on gummy worms to soothe your throat, dear.
oh; Pho alwaya helps ya feel better when sickly, too. :)
-Elf, Daughter of Amy from Molbak's
Hi Elf! The doctor I eventually went to (since I didn't really start feeling better until today) thought that it sounded like mono too, but eventually decided that the nurse was probably right with just generic 'crud' but that I'd developed a sinus/lung infection. Thanks for the gummy worm idea though! I'll definitely give that one a try. If nothing else, it will at least taste good, right? :-)
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