Holy cow, what a cold. I was pretty puny yesterday, temperature up and down, fuzzy-headed, but I managed to make a nice breakfast omelet, and much later, heat up some chicken soup for supper.
The fun started when I went to bed. I hit the hay early and alternated between freezing, burning up, having to clear my sinuses so I could breathe and needing to tinkle. Along about two this morning, I woke up soaking with sweat and feeling an urgent need to head down the hall -- if only I could remember which way to turn! It's literally five steps from my room to the smallest room. It should not be a challenge.
Once there, unfastening the fluffy robe I had fallen asleep wearing over a flannel nightgown was almost too difficult to do: two simple shoelace-type bows, pull on a free end and knot falls apart. I finally figured it out. It was about that point when I realized I had a dangerously high temperature. But hey, no hallucinations, so still okay. Just a quart low on brains. I managed to take care of what needed taking care of, including swapping the sweat-wet nightgown for a dry one, and made it back to bed. The next time I woke, I felt more clear-headed than I had in some time.
Clear-headed but beat up and dragged through a knothole: I hurt all over. I still do. I was awake and asleep several times, and the last time I started feeling overheated, I got out the thermometer: 99.5°F. No telling how high it was earlier except I start seeing things around 104, so it never got that high.
This is a lousy cold.
Dr Cop Car (who has zero medical training) pronounces your malady as likely being a virus of some sort, but not a common cold. Sheesh!
ReplyDeleteIt figures I'd get some "special" malady. ;) Whatever it is, I don't approve of it. Hoping last night's fever was the peak and I'm recovering now.
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