My January Curse

I don't know what it is, but apparently it's a requirement for me to get sick every January. I got sick last January and I'm slowly recovering from another illness that just struck me over the weekend.

I hate using almost half of my sick time at the beginning of the year, but more than that, I feel like I should be able to make it more than a year without getting sick. Grrr.

Last Thursday and Friday, I started to feel run down and had slightly labored breathing, but I just assigned it to end-of-the week tiredness.

I was wrong.

On Saturday, Adam and I were out and I really had to run to the restroom. And then I had to run to the restroom a few more times after that. And that's where I'm going to leave the details on that symptom.

I thought that was basically the problem by itself, but then Sunday about lunchtime, my energy took a nosedive. In the course of 30 minutes, I went from cleaning up a little to lying almost passed out on the couch. I had no appetite for 3 days and didn't have the energy to even care whether I watched TV or stared at the wall.

By the evening, I developed a temperature, which finally got to about 101, or at least that's the last time we measured it before bed. I was shivering so convulsively, I felt like I had a touch of Tourette's. I sweated out the fever overnight and felt extremely achy all the next day. 

I spent the rest of Monday and Tuesday recovering from that low point (and sweated out another fever the second night) and then took yesterday off work as well to give myself a chance to get a good night's rest and ease back slowly into the land of the living.

So, I'm finally back at work today, making this a very short (and hopefully not too stressful) week for me. 

Anyway, that's my update and it's also why I haven't updated the blog this week.

Hopefully I won't have any relapses because of course I had insomnia last night, the night before I was returning to work, and so I'm still feeling a bit low energy today. Adam did too, so at least we got to commiserate that neither one of us was sleeping. He hasn't been feeling too well either, so I think he's got the same bug with slightly different symptoms.

Let's hope we both start recovering! It is a miserable bug to catch.