There’s no entry for yesterday with very good reason. The dizzines that I wrote about on the 2nd was the harbinger of the early stages of pneumonia (at least that is what the doctor thinks right now). Let me walk you through my Wednesday of stupidity.
August 3rd, 2005
7:05 am : I wake up feeling like total hell after a night of the chills and sleeping like total crap. I feel dizzy, my entire body aches, my face feels like it is swollen and also it is throbbing with discomfort. I wonder if this is a temporary feeling so I stagger into the shower, get dressed, then have to crash on the couch for 20 minutes because this isn’t going well.
9:00 am : I get to work feeling worse then I did when I woke up. The chills won’t leave me alone as I suffer while sitting at my desk. I have a coworker tell me if it feels like I have a fever and I am told that I am burning up. I take two Advil and try to wait it out, to no avail.
10:15 am : I get back home and begin a marathon sick sleep session all the way until 5 PM, complete with hot and cold flashes.
5:10 pm : I check into Urgent Care at my doctors office to make sure all of this isn’t related to an ear infection. All of the symptoms are very similiar and for some reason I had been plagued by them as much as my daughter had been. When I get into a room the nurse takes blood pressure and my temperature. Turns out I’ve been wandering around like an idiot with a 102 degree fever. They take chest x-rays because I mentioned that breathing was kind of hard in the morning. They see slight fuzziness in my lungs that could be the onset of pneumonia. I’m given antibiotics and I’m told to stack Advil and Tylenol as needed to take care of the pain and fever.
102 degree fever and I was refussing to go to the doctor. Real smart huh?
The thing that gets me about all of this is that I’m struck with some really nasty thing right after I decide that I’m going to take action in my life, make myself accountable for my life, and try to get healthy. The timing couldn’t be more perfect.
In case you cared, the fever is down to 99.7 today after I woke up this morning at 2:25 am looking like someone had dumped a bucket of water on me. Gotta love the sweat that comes from a fever breaking.
