Yes, I'm sick! I'm not too sure if it's the flu because I'm not showing all the symptoms. Well, not all at once anyway. Here's a rundown of the unfolding of the ailment:
First, started getting woozy Sunday evening. This, I attributed to a high cholesterol lunch of batchoy.
By Monday, woozy had progressed to dizzy - a mild attack of vertigo which prevented me from going to work.
Tuesday, my nose started to drip more than usual. Nothing that a boxful of tissue couldn't handle. Or so I thought!
On Wednesday, I had to force myself to go to work even if I was sneezing violently all over the place.
Thursday, there was very little energy left to give a lecture in class as I had also started coughing.
Friday was spent in bed trying to fight off the virus or bacteria or whatever name the enemy goes by.
By Saturday morning, my nose and upper lip area were encrusted with dry, rough skin from all the nose-blowing I had been doing. When the skin started peeling off later in the day, I thought I was on the road to recovery. I was feeling sort of okay until while taking a nap, I started getting chills. Woke up feverish and surrendered my resolve not to take paracetamol.
Today, I missed my Sunday mass assignment because I woke up with a bad headache. Not the best combination with a still runny nose and cough! Hay!
It's taken me a week to accept that I am indeed sick with the flu! Mothers have a way of thinking they're invulnerable but I guess that's pretty difficult in a household with people spewing out the dreaded germs in every corner! Yes, it's an excuse to stay in bed the whole day but it doesn't seem like resting to me when I have to wipe my nose every few minutes and then feeling bleah during my waking hours!
But I hope to will this ailment away. It has overstayed its welcome! In my mind, I can see it being bamboozled by copious amounts of water, tea, fruit juice, Vitamin C, and saline solution. Then I imagine it disappearing into nothingness as my antibodies cheerfully jump up and down while chanting "Down with the flu, down with the flu!"
Wow! What an elaborate description of flu like symptoms. You should be writing books. You'll be very good at it. :) Actually, in college I always thought that you'll be a broadcaster.....
ReplyDeleteMadaldal nga ako kapag nagsusulat! Just wondering why you would think I would become a broadcaster when I was a Psychology major. Hmmmm... madaldal na rin ba ako noon? I can't remember.
ReplyDeleteMadaldal ka rin naman noon di ba? And you were also involved in theatre/plays...or like to see plays. Natatandaan ko pa noong one time there was a play showing at mass com and you had only one ticket and I don't. Gee, I don't even watch plays. Anyway, you made an act and convinced the people at the gate to let us in to see the play. I think that was how it happened. I was just quite and watched you do your act and it was so convincing. Pati ako bilib-na-bilib. Kung may kaso ako noon, absuwelto. Actually, I thought you were a Mass Com major then. Nauna akong grumaduate, kaya I really don't know what you finished. And what job did you ended up doing?
ReplyDeleteHahaha! Ano kayang drama na sinabi ko para maconvince sila na papasukin ka? Hindi ko na talaga matandaan ang incident na yan.
ReplyDeleteActually, I was a member of the UP Mobile Theater under Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero and came out in a few plays in UP. But I earned a degree in Psychology and worked in different offices after graduation, but never as a broadcaster. I came back to UP in 1994 to teach Psychology (what else!) and have been here since then. And yes, madrama akong teacher! Ask my students!