Well I think it’s day four. Maybe. This all started Saturday night and it’s now Tuesday afternoon.
Wow, it’s been one hell of a ride.
I’m a bit more coherent now. I think? I hope?
I actually remember very little of a period of about 36 hours starting Saturday night. This is probably not a bad thing because what little I do remember is unpleasant in the extreme. Between what turns out to be an H3N2 influenza infection, two out of control panic attacks, two SVT episodes and two very unpleasant visits to the ER, this is something I would very much rather forget than remember. So the fact that everything about those two days is more than a bit vague is probably a good thing.
So I’m up to day four now and things are doing considerably better. I’m told I was running a fever of 103 when they had me in the ER. That’s down to normal. My head is still badly congested, as is my chest. The cough is nowhere near as bad as it was, but it’s still there. Just walking up a flight of stairs at a normal pace leaves me out of breath at the moment. I have a wicked headache. I slept for almost 4 hours last night which isn’t much, but that’s the most sleep I got since this all started so that’s something I guess.
For the first time since Saturday I’m actually interested in eating and I’m going to take a stab at eating something other than crackers and clear broth a bit later and see how that goes.
They put me on Tamiflu as soon as they tests that confirmed I had the bug came back. I’ve been taking that twice a day and it’s hard to tell if it’s doing any good or not. At best they say it can reduce the severity of symptoms and shorten the duration by a few days and I’ll take anything I can get at this point. At the moment I’m looking at a mix of about 6 different meds, some prescription, some over the counter, that I need to try to keep track of here for the next few days. Ibuprofen, mucinex, my regular blood pressure meds. cholesterol, the tamiflu. etc.
Meanwhile I’m starting to feel guilty about doing nothing but sitting around doing nothing but watching stupid youtube videos and Netflix. I have a half dozen different projects in planning stages or ready to go, I have a new CNC machine that I should have unpacked and started to try to work with, new software I’ve been trying to learn. But it doesn’t pay to try to start any of that even if I felt halfway decent because I can’t really concentrate that well yet. Sigh…
MrsGF noted that this is the first time she’s seen me get this sick in, well, just about forever, really. Even during the many years I was working at the school district exposed to everything from colds and flu and plague for all I know, I managed to avoid coming down with any of it. I honestly have not had the flu or even a serious cold in decades. How I got that lucky I don’t know, but it makes getting hit with something this serious now even worse because I don’t know how to deal with it.
I really, really hope MrsGF doesn’t come down with this. So far she’s symptom free, thankfully. Maybe she’ll get lucky.
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