Ow.

[lareinenoire]

What illness is it that makes everything hurt? Literally everything?

I woke up yesterday feeling slightly under the weather, but nothing too serious. Then as I started walking into town to meet a friend of mine for hot chocolate, it started to hurt to breathe. I more or less ignored it since I had work to do after said chocolate meeting. Around 1:30PM or so, I headed into Duke Humfrey's for what was supposed to be a marathon six-hour session with my pile of ten stack requests, and hopefully some more work done on Hall.

Not so much. I started getting dizzy spells. The first time, I just closed my eyes to rest them for a few minutes, but when the dizziness came back the second time, I decided to walk around a bit and have some water. Again, helped a little, but not very much. By the end of the afternoon, the headache had set in and did not go away. There was a free evening thing at the Ashmolean that I really wanted to attend, so I ignored the headache and went. The fact that Katie and I later had to walk back to our respective houses in the pouring rain probably did not help.

I came in, changed, made myself the throat remedy I used last term (lemon juice, honey, and hot water), and went to bed. I suppose I slept reasonably well once I could get to sleep -- I was alternately too hot, too cold, too whatever, and having bizarre dreams where everybody was speaking German.

Woke up this morning and, in spite of the headache having thankfully calmed down, everything hurts. So I've e-mailed the other director, asking him to take over rehearsal for today, that I'll try my best to get there but I can't make any promises. Especially since it would be better for me to miss this one than, say, dress on Friday.

Ugh. I need to go to Tesco and buy honey and ibuprofen but I'm afraid that if I try to walk any long distance, the dizziness will come back. I'm having enough trouble getting to the kitchen at this point...

Comments

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

I hate to say this, but those are the classic symptoms of real flu, and it's going about just now. If you want to make Friday's rehearsal, you need to go to bed right now and stay there. Send someone else to Tesco.

NHS Direct page here (http://www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk/articles/article.aspx?articleId=163&sectionId=28059).

Sorry! Hope you feel better soon.

[yrmencyn.livejournal.com]

nineveh's right: you've got the flu. I know you're loathe to miss things, but there's no way you'll get better without rest.

feel better, hon.

[ladyshrew.livejournal.com]

Seems to be what's going around. Monday, I was literally sore all over and very headachy and sore throaty. Now I'm still sore throaty, sluggish, and very stuffed up (though most of the actual soreness has gone).

If it's the same thing and you have a nice immune system, the actually incapacitating symptoms will probably go in a day or two. The sore throat and stuffiness will probably remain longer. :-P

At any rate, I'm venturing out today to 1) get a book, and 2) get things to take for this horrible plague. >_< I wish you lots and lots of luck! Try sleeping as long as you can. I think that's how I got rid of the soreness--I just slept for most of the day!

[dolorous-ett.livejournal.com]

Poor you - get better soon!

[tempestsarekind.livejournal.com]

Oh dear! I hope you feel better soon!

sad to hear you're feeling so sick........

[dracschick.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

feel better,
Chris

I concur w/ the flu

[peverbian.livejournal.com]

Yep, sounds like the flu. I always get myself a gallon of OJ & some sort of soup and camp out. Push fluids. Gyahh, I sound like my mother.

Get Well Soon,
Ted

Re: I concur w/ the flu

[lareinenoire.livejournal.com]

Well, I spent the past two days drinking as much tea and lemon cordial (lemon juice, honey, and hot water) and soup as I could while also sleeping as much as humanly possible. I just woke up from a six-hour nap in the middle of the day and I'm feeling markedly better. Apparently bed-rest and liquids really are the way to go.