Week from Hell…

My week has been difficult, because I’ve had the worst flu in living memory which has knocked me for six. It all started last Sunday, the day after Wharf to Wharf. Towards evening, I started getting a sore throat, but went out anyway to play chess with Rune. By Monday it was gone, so I thought nothing more about it. I was OK til Wednesday evening, when the sore throat returned with avengeance, and every bone in my body started to ache. I hobbled home on the bus from an Oneroa games evening, and knew I needed to spend at least 2 days in bed. Very little sleep though, as my body was objecting to every movement. Friday I was about 5% better, so I ventured out to the supermarket. Yesterday was about the same level of discomfort and pain, and today is the same. I didn’t want to talk to anybody, too much energy needed to do that. So that’s the state of play with me. Historically I always take about 2 weeks to come right with the flu. So 1 week to go hopefully.

This is how this severe type of flu affected me:

Head………sweaty

Eyes……….swollen and sore

Nose………runny

Teeth……..aching

Brain……..shut down, but delusional at times, delirious, wanting to curl up and die in a corner of my man-cave

Appetite……subdued

Lungs…..congested

Bowels……constipated

Urinary system……irregular

Genitalia…..no problems, of course

Legs………sore

Ankles…….sore

Socialisation…….not wanting contact with anyone, not answering phone

Joints….very sore

So avoid this strain at all costs. I wonder if I caught it from those 2 young women I followed for a while last Saturday, maybe a drop of sweat landed on my face, dunno.

So I have to decide whether to go out again today for food. It’s raining. I have:

Leftover pasta and stir fry veges from last night. 4 slices bread. Rice. Cheese. Chocolate mousse (yummm), tea, coffee, milk.

No, I think I will be OK.

Now, trivia quiz time. Who said… ‘ at school, I would shit my pants and be too scared to ask the teacher to leave the class. I’d sit there in a pants load of poo all day long’.

Clue: It wasn’t Miley Cyrus.