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Ugh. So, guess who has the flu, you guys? *dies*
Seriously, this is the second year in a row after never catching it before. I'm going to have to start getting the flu shot, because this is ridiculous. Drove home for the weekend to hang out with minimaize, sotty_chan, and drkhearted in Boston. We hung around Jen's room doing girl things--I successfully dyed Sot's hair, go me! Tromped around in the dark taking pictures, went back to Jaho's room, were silly, then fell asleep. Woke up next morning, spent 2 hours in the DC, was dragged out shopping, went home. Started to get a cough. Next day, felt weird, discovered to have a high-ish fever. Took Sot to Boston for her award ceremony anyway. Felt really disoriented on the T ride back. Came home, died.
Monday I woke up, started packing to drive back to UMass, had to stop in the middle to drive Sot to school, and that one little drive told me I definitely shouldn't drive the hour and a half to Amherst if I wanted to survive the trip. Went to the ER so that I could have a doctor's note claiming that I was sick enough to be unable to attend class. Doctor looked at me, said "Oh, it just looks like a bad cold to me. You're not complaining enough for it to be the flu. We have a test to make sure it isn't the flu, though, do you want to try that?" And I did. And it turned up positive. So I have Tamiflu that I'm supposed to be taking, and I have a doctor's note excusing me from this whole week of classes if I so choose. Probably going back to classes on Thursday, however.
Office of International Programs chose me to be one of the three UMass students to go to Nanzan. I'm uber excited--it was my first choice. That's part of the reason I have to be back Thursday--preliminary paperwork round happens then. Am coming back home this weekend for the long weekend, to recuperate. Am feeling really out of it at the moment. Can't decide whether to watch TV or read fanfiction. Oh, decisions, decisions.
Seriously, this is the second year in a row after never catching it before. I'm going to have to start getting the flu shot, because this is ridiculous. Drove home for the weekend to hang out with minimaize, sotty_chan, and drkhearted in Boston. We hung around Jen's room doing girl things--I successfully dyed Sot's hair, go me! Tromped around in the dark taking pictures, went back to Jaho's room, were silly, then fell asleep. Woke up next morning, spent 2 hours in the DC, was dragged out shopping, went home. Started to get a cough. Next day, felt weird, discovered to have a high-ish fever. Took Sot to Boston for her award ceremony anyway. Felt really disoriented on the T ride back. Came home, died.
Monday I woke up, started packing to drive back to UMass, had to stop in the middle to drive Sot to school, and that one little drive told me I definitely shouldn't drive the hour and a half to Amherst if I wanted to survive the trip. Went to the ER so that I could have a doctor's note claiming that I was sick enough to be unable to attend class. Doctor looked at me, said "Oh, it just looks like a bad cold to me. You're not complaining enough for it to be the flu. We have a test to make sure it isn't the flu, though, do you want to try that?" And I did. And it turned up positive. So I have Tamiflu that I'm supposed to be taking, and I have a doctor's note excusing me from this whole week of classes if I so choose. Probably going back to classes on Thursday, however.
Office of International Programs chose me to be one of the three UMass students to go to Nanzan. I'm uber excited--it was my first choice. That's part of the reason I have to be back Thursday--preliminary paperwork round happens then. Am coming back home this weekend for the long weekend, to recuperate. Am feeling really out of it at the moment. Can't decide whether to watch TV or read fanfiction. Oh, decisions, decisions.