I’ve been down with the flu since Thursday. I started a nagging sore throat on Wednesday night but I had Strepsils and plenty of water, in an attempt to try and flush out the bacteria. I even gargled salt water on Thursday morning to try and kill of the germs.
But alas, I woke up on Thursday morning, feeling rather tired and not wanting to get out of bed. Assuming that it was just a case of theweekendisnearitis, I rolled outta bed amid a bad sore throat and feeling rather cold that morning. But mind you, it is in the middle of winter now so one would expect it to be dead cold. Made my way to work and lo and behold, felt very much colder than usual and was shivering while going around the wards seeing patients. I had to do a shower assessment in the morning and while I watched in on one and did one myself, I was feeling so cold it wasn’t funny. I had to pretty much wear my heavy winter coat on top of my OT uniform and long sleeved shirt to keep warm over a warm cup of coffee.
After the action meeting at 8.30am and eating half a croissant, I still didn’t feel too good. I tried to keep up, but soon the body aches had begun, I officially have moved into flu territory. Admittedly its far less severe than my previous bouts of flu but its right smack in the middle of prac nonetheless. After lunch time, I didn’t think I could handle feeling so cold and so painful anymore and longed to curl up on my bed and just fall asleep. So I took off and went home, and I had to wait a blooming 35 minutes in the freezing cold and rain for the bus which was blooming late. I wasn’t a happy camper. I thought I was delirious that I had misread the bus timetable but indeed the bus was just extremely tardy.
I got home by 2pm and popped my contacts out put on 3 layers of clothes and crawled under 3 layers of blankets and dozed off effectively till 8pm when I thought it’d be a good idea to take some flu tablets. So off I trudged downstairs to get some soup into me, since I hadn’t eaten anything apart from half the croissant for morning tea. Got those down and went back to sleep from 9pm till about 8am Friday morning when I had to phone my supervisor to let her know that I would not be coming in to work that morning. I guess I could have, but I thought I’d better take it off, just in case I get worse and end up having to come back home again and stuff. So I effectively slept most of Friday away, willing my body to fight the flu. My fever went down on Friday morning so I felt much much better. Its awfully dreadful to be feeling cold even though you’re tucked in under 3 blankets, socks on, PJs on and still shivering.
I worked on Saturday, just having a slight cough and runny nose but it worked out alright.
Played tennis on Sunday, and amazingly enough I am not that sore today. Only slightly sore in my bum (I still don’t get why the muscles around my ischial tuberosities are aching) and my other limbs are fine. I guess this is a rather good form of exercise for me haha This week will probably be badminton since most of them are off on cell retreat, but we’ll see how it goes.
Well, I’m here to report that I’m currently having a slightly runny nose and a very mild cough but otherwise, surviving nicely. Team meetings after the 2 ward rounds were rather relaxed today, we had quite a few people get discharged while we were on shift today. Bumped into Justin Ti while seeing a patient and was quite amused to see them hunting down patients to sign off for their musculoskeletal part of their log books. So I have no become the person to go to for patients that they need to sign their log books haha
Anyways, I should be off writing my own case study and racking up the hours for my portfolio. Toodles!
