the flu sucks
i got sick with the flu on friday night at about seven. suddenly, my entire body was chilling and achy and i felt pretty sick in other ways too. i mostly just didn’t want to move at all. but i was almost on my way to work at the time that this started at 7 would be a little late to call off so i went into work. i got progressively sicker as the night continued. i called mom around 9:30 to tell her that i planned on sleeping at home and asked if she could put another comforter on my bed because sometimes i need another comforter to fight the chills. i got home at about midnight and crawled into my double-comfortered bed and didn’t really remove myself from it until i had a paper to write last night (due this morning, but have no fear it was only like a 17 sentence composition for french). ugh. saturday i slept until like noon or so then i laid around and watched “As Good As It Gets” which was pretty decent. I don’t know. I pretty much was just annoyed with the actions of all of the characters at the time. Joe brought me juice stop because steve was at work and he’s a nice kid. then he stayed with me because he was pretty violently ill as well and we watched the entire season three of family guy. i was forced to call into work that night (Rather my mom did becxause i was insistent that i should go and still feel bad about not going kind of). i threw up some which wasn’t any fun. but i managed to only vomit once and only dry heave once throughout the entire illness. so i’m pretty much proud of myself for that feat alone.
i haven’t eaten more than a few bites of spaghetti since i got sick. well actually i had maybe some hash browns on friday morning and some macaroni and cheese around 2:45 in the afternoon. and that’s all i consumed for the weekend until those like 5 spaghetti bites last night. i’ve just felt horrible. this has negatively affected my weight. i’m guessing i’m down about five pounds because that’s a reasonable amount to lose following a weekend of starvation. augh! i don’t really like losing weight much. not because i think i’m this perfect skinny body type to begin with but just because it always puts me in a weird mood. like i don’t want to gain it back, etc. it also probably factors in that i havne’t had soda all weekend. that alone with no food cutout can drop me about five pounds. well i guess i was doing a lot of walking that weekend too… so five pounds is probably still my guess and we’ll find out for sure on wednesday when i go to doctor for that weird side pain which has been considerably worse during my flu. i wish they could get me in earlier. not to mention.. fucking kevin is making us leave for kentucky at like 5pm on wednesday. and there’s a good chance a 2:15 appointment for a mystery disease will last till three and then require blood work if not x-rays also or a sonagram.. this means at like 15 minutes travel time from doctor to lab. then about 20 minutes or so waiting because the minor acute people seem to be the only people with enough clout to get me in quickly to that place. then the actual blood or scans. at least 15-30 minutes. more if its both. so this is going to push my time a lot, as you can see. and making it there by 5:00 seems highly unlikely. but whatever kevin. if you think its possible i’ll see you there at 5:15 and you can deal with my tardiness by yourself because i’ve had this appointment for a month and i’m going to do whatever they want me too. the bright side is that if they want a sonagram which kind of makes more sense given the location of the pain then they will have to set up a seperate sonagram appointment which will most likely be after i return. unless it suddenly moves itself into emergency category and then i’ll be alright.
the good news about my disease is that my stomach is probably capable of holding about 8 oz at this point. so starving myself all through novi-nats won’t be nearly as hard as i expected.
dammit. dammit dammit. i hate the flu.