Improvements
Nov. 13th, 2008 04:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stephbgAm much heartened by my improvement over the last couple of days, and even managed to get to the office this morning for a couple of hours.
The trip to the office was a bit frustrating, for my aged and ailing work PC decided to corrupt my personal profile, which made most things even more painful than usual. I managed to scrape together some requested web stats... only to be quite nicely informed later that I'd done them for the wrong year. Oops.
I'm mostly pleased because each day of my illness the last week or so has been *different*. Yay! For future reference I went through this approximate onset sequence of the classic (as I understand it) flu-like symptoms:
* Sore throat
* Fever (or just thermal instability)
* Headache
* Racing heart. This happens all the time, but seemed to be more pronounced.
* Joint aches (mostly wrists and knees)
* Thirst
* Abdominal tenderness. Undifferentiated at first.
* Bright yellow liquid poo. Bile rhymes with vile.
* Deep muscle fatigue (which in some ways felt good - hamstrings loosened up considerably for a couple of days)
* Sleepiness (yes I can tell)
* Tender liver, spleen and lymph nodes. Spleen noticeably enlarged, and I'd forgotten how unpleasant that can be. Ah, memories.
* Sore feet on waking. Oddly specific.
* Insomnia. More than usual. This is one of my typical getting-over-it signs.
* Dry cough
* Slightly runny nose
* Bleariness
* Happiness
Obviously some overlap, but I wasn't planning to knock up a Gantt chart. The important thing is I didn't just collapse into an undifferentiated chronic fatigue episode. I progressed! Also important that I haven't seen any signs of shingles, although I dreamed about it last night. Like shingles though, most of this was familiar enough that it seemed like a resurgance of my resident virus, rather than a new infection. But really, how could I know that?
I am pretty certain that eating beige has helped this to work its way through, rather than confusing the symptoms and dragging on. And on.
Currently throaty, thirsty and bleary (oh my), but in a cold way, rather than a flu way. Instinct is telling me to make haste slowly at this point, for I may be vulnerable to infection and I'm still in soggy shape (and look at the overuse of parentheses and patchy grammar and punctuation - brain still out of order). Similarly also a good idea to avoid immune-compromised BIL, who's nearly at the end of his chemo. Probably shouldn't have been on a packed train full of coughing people this morning. Meh.
Actually the train was considerably less packed than usual today. Are other people sick at the moment?
The trip to the office was a bit frustrating, for my aged and ailing work PC decided to corrupt my personal profile, which made most things even more painful than usual. I managed to scrape together some requested web stats... only to be quite nicely informed later that I'd done them for the wrong year. Oops.
I'm mostly pleased because each day of my illness the last week or so has been *different*. Yay! For future reference I went through this approximate onset sequence of the classic (as I understand it) flu-like symptoms:
* Sore throat
* Fever (or just thermal instability)
* Headache
* Racing heart. This happens all the time, but seemed to be more pronounced.
* Joint aches (mostly wrists and knees)
* Thirst
* Abdominal tenderness. Undifferentiated at first.
* Bright yellow liquid poo. Bile rhymes with vile.
* Deep muscle fatigue (which in some ways felt good - hamstrings loosened up considerably for a couple of days)
* Sleepiness (yes I can tell)
* Tender liver, spleen and lymph nodes. Spleen noticeably enlarged, and I'd forgotten how unpleasant that can be. Ah, memories.
* Sore feet on waking. Oddly specific.
* Insomnia. More than usual. This is one of my typical getting-over-it signs.
* Dry cough
* Slightly runny nose
* Bleariness
* Happiness
Obviously some overlap, but I wasn't planning to knock up a Gantt chart. The important thing is I didn't just collapse into an undifferentiated chronic fatigue episode. I progressed! Also important that I haven't seen any signs of shingles, although I dreamed about it last night. Like shingles though, most of this was familiar enough that it seemed like a resurgance of my resident virus, rather than a new infection. But really, how could I know that?
I am pretty certain that eating beige has helped this to work its way through, rather than confusing the symptoms and dragging on. And on.
Currently throaty, thirsty and bleary (oh my), but in a cold way, rather than a flu way. Instinct is telling me to make haste slowly at this point, for I may be vulnerable to infection and I'm still in soggy shape (and look at the overuse of parentheses and patchy grammar and punctuation - brain still out of order). Similarly also a good idea to avoid immune-compromised BIL, who's nearly at the end of his chemo. Probably shouldn't have been on a packed train full of coughing people this morning. Meh.
Actually the train was considerably less packed than usual today. Are other people sick at the moment?
