So there I was, minding my own business . . .

Cymry · Post by **Cymry** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 1:00 am

. . . getting my weekend chores done, when, while I was vacuuming, it attacked! My body was wracked with shooting pains, and my temperature was steadily going up to a toasty 100.5 degrees. I feel like I've been hit by a Mack truck, and my temp has so far topped out at 101.4 this evening. The body aches have worsened and bettered, worsened and bettered, and I'm alternating between hot and cold. I"ve taken some TheraFlu (lots of sugar to help the taste) and the sum total of what I've ingested today has amounted to 2 eggs, 2 pieces of toast with strawberry jam, 4 pieces of plain bread, some Coke, and ice water. No nausea (although I did embrace the porcelain throne thinking I was about to make an offering), but some dizziness. Needless to say, the bathroom floor is a nice and cool place to lie while the rest of the room whirls dervishly above me, although it is kind of hard on the head unless you have a nice soft towel as a pillow. I hope this is just some kind of weird reaction to dust or something blooming and not the flu.

Lyneaone · Post by **Lyneaone** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 1:10 am

Dang! Sorry you're so sick hon. It sure does sound like the flu.

I sure hate that feeling as well. I've been sick all week myself, and hopefully will be getting my voice back one of these days.

Take care of yourself.

Cymry · Post by **Cymry** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 5:45 pm

Thanks, Lyn. My hubby has been looking after me, and I feel better and worse alternately. Right now, I'm nice and cool, but I ache all over, and I've had about 4 hot soaks since yesterday trying to get rid of the aches. I think I've been working up to this all week. I was home from church last Sunday because of headache, and I had more headaches this past week than usual, so I think this was coming. I hate missing today, though, as it is Fifth Sunday (5 Sundays in the month), and, being the good Southern Baptists that we are, we waste no opportunity to eat together. I'm missing Fifth Sunday dinner, but oh, well. I guess I can miss just one.

Todtstoy · Post by **Todtstoy** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 9:23 pm

I hope you get to feeling better real soon.

Post by **Panzerfaust** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 9:55 pm

Hope you feel better soon.

Khufu · Post by **Khufu** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 11:59 pm

yep yu got the flu.

thunderblade · Post by **thunderblade** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 1:53 pm

hope you get feeling better, soon you will be up and

around.

Nash the slash · Post by **Nash the slash** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 4:48 pm

yah know that as a school teacher you are daily exposed to disease ridden vermin ...aka the kiddies....

its amazing you dont have more sick days...

thenetworkgod · Post by **thenetworkgod** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 4:57 pm

Get well!

Cymry · Post by **Cymry** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 6:53 pm

Thanks, all! I feel some better today, although last night (Sunday) I was so dizzy I could hardly stand up. I have never been that dizzy before in my life. I've got a sub for today and tomorrow. I don't want to be out too much, but neither do I want to go to school before I'm ready and possibly infect everyone else and wear my resistance back down so that I relapse.

thenetworkgod · Post by **thenetworkgod** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 7:02 pm

Cymry wrote:I have never been that dizzy before in my life.

Then STOP looking at those pics of Panzer @ the beach!!!

Cymry · Post by **Cymry** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 7:10 pm

Post by **Panzerfaust** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 7:37 pm

yes - the chicks dig me

Master Dictator · Post by **Master Dictator** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 10:42 pm

I hope you feel better.
Well, I hope your head stops hurting so you can play AC since you get the day off. Just keep a waste basket next to the computer since throw up is not good for your keyboard.

Cymry · Post by **Cymry** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 1:52 am

Well, after 4 days of rest, lots of water, lemonade, and Excedrin, I am finally feeling normal again, and ready to go back and face all those 4-year-olds again. . . I think.