So no prizes for guessing Christmas didn't happen for me this year, but fortunately we had all the shopping done and were pretty much covered by the 23rd when all of a sudden, bang!
From the first inkling I was feeling a bit off, to being completely crippled with headpain like I've never experienced and unable to walk or even move was about 20minutes. I thought there was something wrong with my muscular system and infection or I'd been drugged or something, as from my buttocks to my skull was pulsating with pain that I can't explain. It is the first time I've been in that position where I can't actually lie comfortably because everything about me is in agony and I have to lie on some part of my body.
So 24th when my temp really got up high and I can't remember much or as I suspect remember everything, only nothing really much happened. Thankfully our good friends next door are doctors and they have been piping a few bags of fluid into me over the duration.
Christmas day, well what a shame, we had a huge Turkey, a leg of pork and the family were all coming around for a great day. Me, I was caught between heart and mind. In my mind I so needed to make the Christmas good for our daughter, or at least make it the best I could, but I was just too screwed to even get her gifts fitted together (of which having a look now see that is a task even on a good day with a engineering degree and backup from NASA), but we got the main to her and she was happy. I showed my face once or twice but couldn't stay up for more than 5 minutes. But the family still had the day and didn't do my head in too much with thier nattering way into the early hours.
So the insomnia that comes with this is mind breaking, a week without sleep when your brain feels like it is trying to crack open your skull from the inside out does make you wonder if you have actually got the worse of the strands and death is on the cards, it sounds dramatic now I am upright, but very real at the time.
The good side of this is I look like I've dropped half my body mass in a week, bad side I haven't eaten a thing at all in a week (still can't eat) and as usual at Xmas I prepare to eat like a pig so a lot of food waste.
So my tips on Dengue, just avoid it at all costs, I'm one of these fools who has been all over the world, and never get ill, these tropical diseases can not effect me, they haven't got me yet so they are unlikely to.....
I realise there is only so much a person can do to avoid this, but with no specific medication for it, only that to reduce the pain and bring temps down so just having to wait it out, it is worth doing what you can.
In all my years I have never felt as ill as I have this week, glad it's over, now time to try to muster energy from nothing to make the new year a bit more of a family occasion I can join in.
From the first inkling I was feeling a bit off, to being completely crippled with headpain like I've never experienced and unable to walk or even move was about 20minutes. I thought there was something wrong with my muscular system and infection or I'd been drugged or something, as from my buttocks to my skull was pulsating with pain that I can't explain. It is the first time I've been in that position where I can't actually lie comfortably because everything about me is in agony and I have to lie on some part of my body.
So 24th when my temp really got up high and I can't remember much or as I suspect remember everything, only nothing really much happened. Thankfully our good friends next door are doctors and they have been piping a few bags of fluid into me over the duration.
Christmas day, well what a shame, we had a huge Turkey, a leg of pork and the family were all coming around for a great day. Me, I was caught between heart and mind. In my mind I so needed to make the Christmas good for our daughter, or at least make it the best I could, but I was just too screwed to even get her gifts fitted together (of which having a look now see that is a task even on a good day with a engineering degree and backup from NASA), but we got the main to her and she was happy. I showed my face once or twice but couldn't stay up for more than 5 minutes. But the family still had the day and didn't do my head in too much with thier nattering way into the early hours.
So the insomnia that comes with this is mind breaking, a week without sleep when your brain feels like it is trying to crack open your skull from the inside out does make you wonder if you have actually got the worse of the strands and death is on the cards, it sounds dramatic now I am upright, but very real at the time.
The good side of this is I look like I've dropped half my body mass in a week, bad side I haven't eaten a thing at all in a week (still can't eat) and as usual at Xmas I prepare to eat like a pig so a lot of food waste.
So my tips on Dengue, just avoid it at all costs, I'm one of these fools who has been all over the world, and never get ill, these tropical diseases can not effect me, they haven't got me yet so they are unlikely to.....
I realise there is only so much a person can do to avoid this, but with no specific medication for it, only that to reduce the pain and bring temps down so just having to wait it out, it is worth doing what you can.
In all my years I have never felt as ill as I have this week, glad it's over, now time to try to muster energy from nothing to make the new year a bit more of a family occasion I can join in.
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