Deja Vu
So I got sick... yet again. That means I've taken off from work for three different times in the span of four weeks. I was looking at my journal and I noticed the same thing happened last year. I think this lingering Japanese winter has my immune system throwing in the towel. I feel a little embarrassed taking off sick so close together. It reminds me of my childhood when I was recovering from chemotherapy. For the next two years afterwards I would get sick almost every other week with some new exotic disease. Diseases like hand, foot, and mouth disease which generally only appears in cows to some tropical disease that had the doctors scratching their heads like, 'How did your daughter get that?'
Now I have to admit the Hand, Foot, and Mouth disease was the most awesome disease a child could hope to get. Firstly, it causes little pain, but the best part was the doctor's instruction to my mom on how to treat it:
Now hand, foot, and mouth disease is highly contagious so your daughter can't go to school for atleast two weeks...
(Me - starting to smile)
...and it's best for her only to eat cold things like ice cream, yogurt, juice, ect. Make sure she eats lots of those.
(Me - Openly grinning)
Later I asked the doctor, "Can you get this disease twice?
Whatever I have now though is far less pleasant. I think I may have gotten a double whammy with two diseases. I can't seem to eat anything but jello and yogurt without unpleasant side effects which makes recovering from the cold difficult when your energy levels are worn down. I also have a splitting headache and earlier had a temperature of 39 degress celcius or about a 102 degrees faranheit! Argh why couldn't it just be hand, foot, and mouth disease!
I took off work early the other day to go to a clinic where they tossed a bunch of drugs at me and were like, "Here! Take these" They did at least ask for my past medical history before giving me the drugs which is better than the other clinic in town.
I completely blame my boyfriend. We were eating out and I noticed he had a runny nose, but he dismissed it as hay fever so I tried some of his food and what do you know? Less than 24 hours later I have a scratchy throat! Hay Fever my ass! :P
Anyhow I think I am recovered enough to go to work tomorrow and since they will have heaters running in the BOE I'm not as concerned about getting too cold like I was at my school yesterday where they decided, "It's March. Doesn't matter that it's still cold! Let's turn off the heaters!"
Now I have to admit the Hand, Foot, and Mouth disease was the most awesome disease a child could hope to get. Firstly, it causes little pain, but the best part was the doctor's instruction to my mom on how to treat it:
Now hand, foot, and mouth disease is highly contagious so your daughter can't go to school for atleast two weeks...
(Me - starting to smile)
...and it's best for her only to eat cold things like ice cream, yogurt, juice, ect. Make sure she eats lots of those.
(Me - Openly grinning)
Later I asked the doctor, "Can you get this disease twice?
Whatever I have now though is far less pleasant. I think I may have gotten a double whammy with two diseases. I can't seem to eat anything but jello and yogurt without unpleasant side effects which makes recovering from the cold difficult when your energy levels are worn down. I also have a splitting headache and earlier had a temperature of 39 degress celcius or about a 102 degrees faranheit! Argh why couldn't it just be hand, foot, and mouth disease!
I took off work early the other day to go to a clinic where they tossed a bunch of drugs at me and were like, "Here! Take these" They did at least ask for my past medical history before giving me the drugs which is better than the other clinic in town.
I completely blame my boyfriend. We were eating out and I noticed he had a runny nose, but he dismissed it as hay fever so I tried some of his food and what do you know? Less than 24 hours later I have a scratchy throat! Hay Fever my ass! :P
Anyhow I think I am recovered enough to go to work tomorrow and since they will have heaters running in the BOE I'm not as concerned about getting too cold like I was at my school yesterday where they decided, "It's March. Doesn't matter that it's still cold! Let's turn off the heaters!"