OK so I am back from my dream vacation and I am soooo happy to be back... it was the friggin trip from HELL!!!!!
So the day we flew there I felt some unease in my throat and in the evening, after dinner I had a headache, but I hoped the echinacea and the immune support vitamins would do the trick.
Then day 1 (of 3 snow-days) I felt quite sick, throat-ache, head-ache, muscle-ache, but still we went to the pists, I boarded 3 pists and then I felt too weak to continue. We had a calm evening but I still felt quite off.
Day 2 I woke up worse, my throat was killing me and my tummy ached, my head etc... after some thinking we went but I got very nauseous on the skilift and after 2 pists (one of which was extremely beautiful and very fun actually), we went to get some coffee and I started to feel very faint, started shaking incontrollably and got blue fingernails. I went home and measured my fever, I was over 40 degrees C (That would be 104 fahrenheit) and I just lay in bed shivering for the rest of the day.
I could not sleep that night, because everytime I swallowed I woke up in tears, and I could not lie still because all of my muscles were aching and my tummy hurt so badly.
The next morning I went to the Doc and he said I had the flu and tonsillitis, gave me antibiotics, pain and fever medication and recommended bedrest. I felt miserable and bedrested for the whole day and the next day we were already comeing back home.
It was the longest trip, 13 hours from door to door,, due to the bad communications and I still felt pretty bad, so all in all this trip was crummy!
I ate almost nothing, I did almost nothing (other than feeling miserable and very very pitiful for myself) and I cried a lot.
Now the GOOD part of this is: I lost a ton of weight. I am quite sure I will regain some now that I started eating again, but hopefully not all of it.
Today I am still on bedrest, so I will take it easy, write the presentation for my thesis (I have to hold this on tuesday) and then tonight my friend got free tickets for the new york ballet company, so I will dress very warmly and go. I have broken the fever anyway, so I think I should be fine.
Camy