The Flu and My After Thoughts

So for the past week I've been extremely under the weather. I was wondering why I had this sore throat that wasn't going at all. And then Sunday night I began to have this crazy fever... I don't think I ever felt so cold before in my life. I was shivering under 4 long sleeved shirts and a hoodie, plus a scarf, wool hat, PJs and jeans on top of them, and two wool socks on each foot... I might as well have been having hypothermia or something, but I fell asleep and it didn't bother me until I woke up and then I was super hot, but as soon as I took off the layers of clothing I I couldn't handle the cold. I stayed in bed for pretty much the whole day on Monday... just barely being able to walk upstairs and back down.

Yesterday morning was pretty brutal. I wanted to die. I got up 9:30 to get ready for a trip to the doctor's office. I had to do walk-in because "all appointments [were] booked until next Thursday" as the receptionist told me. It was so difficult to get up that early, my body was not willing to move at all, but I had to get up and go because I needed the doctor's note to give to my Chem TA because I missed that lab. After trying to get ready for 1.5 hrs... I finally reached the office at 11:30 am and got myself for the long wait ahead of me. Sitting in the waiting room was like torture for me... the only thing I could look at was the movie "Serendipity" and there were 15 people who were as sick as me waiting and waiting. I started to have this massive fever again and was gone. Two of the nurses asked me if I was okay, I said "yeh." After that movie ended, they decided two play "Pirates of the Carribean" to cheer the place up because we all looked "dead and gloomy" as the second nurse that checked on me said. so I watched pretty much that whole movie and then finally got called in... a wonderful 3.5 hr wait for the note that took 5 seconds to write. I was like "why... why me??? I just want to lay in bed and sleep". At 3:30 pm I got home and just went to bed... I was so happy to be lying down and just so exhausted. Spending practically my main portion of my day inside the office where there are no windows is so hard to deal with.

Today was a little bit more forgiving. I got up and felt great. Didn't go to school because my doctor told me I was excused from school until Friday and should try not to go to classes or labs... so I listened :D yey for me! An excuse to go to school where I can learn the exact same thing reading it from a book that I paid over $100 for. So anyways, I stayed at home and relaxed. About 2 pm I started feeling it again, but i have yet to fall asleep. I don't want this sickness to become a habit i can't break like not going to school, sleeping through the day and then staying up all night. I can't do that anymore... it killed me last time I did that. Now it's almost time for my bedtime... so yeh. Tomorrow is my last day off, but it's a day full of studying because I have to write an online quiz for chem tomorrow which won't be fun! and plus I have band practice for CCC which I am excited for. My first time singing at University in front of a crowd of people... well actually my second, but I just try not to remember the first time.

Things I've learned through this Flu week... I hated Serendipity before and I fully destest and despise it now so nothing much has changed in that point. I love sleep. I find classes pointless to go to if they just take everything from a book and I find buying their textbooks pointless if they decide not to take anything from it (and by anything I mean more than 10 pages out of it) because then I'll just photocopy it all.

goodnight and good luck!
~Coconut~