Martian Death Flu

Arg. Have been sick now for five days.

The kind of sick where you're too tired to sleep, you can't sit, or lie comfortably, and every breath tastes of your sickness. You're skin is burning but you're shaking so you pull a blanket over your legs and alternate between too hot and too cold. You have no appetite, which means after day three you're dizzy and weird because all you've eaten is half a bowl of Campbell's soup and about seven packets of cough drops. You're too tired to be irritable and your partner knows you're really sick because you aren't even bitching, and you're still lying on the couch staring at the wall after days of it and you're not interested in a movie or a video game or conversation. Your days melt into each other. Your voice goes after a while, then comes back. You cough and your throat is raw from coughing and if you live in Vancouver, like I do, the first question your doctor asks is "Have you been in Toronto lately?" followed by "How about Asia?" before she'll come near you without a face mask.

You're too tired to post much even though you are doing nothing else all day.
Blergh.

The only plus is I'm not nauseated, but my cheerful doctor assured me that the meds she has me on will change all that. "Expect mild nausea," she said. "If the vomiting is bothersome, check back with me and we'll see where you're at."

In an effort to make this a community thread and not just a feel-sorry-for-me-at-a-distance thread, What is the sickest you have ever been?

Hmm... that would be when I was ten, and we moved to Pakistan. I simply could not keep anything in my body for longer than 15 minutes. The doctor never did quite figure out if I had the flu, or a bad reaction to the food, or what it was. But whatever it was, it lasted for 8 days, and then vanished, the day after my doctor threatened to put me on an IV.

Who says bodies don't respond to threats.

And I'd give you a hug, Jade, but, a) I doubt you feel like being hugged, b) I don't want whatever it is you have, and c) you're in Canada.

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But I do hope you kick whatever it is out SOON.

The sickest I've been was exactly the way you described the way you've been feeling. Plus, I felt like I was delirious and halucinating some times. I would fade in and out.

I hope you feel better soon. [img]smile.gif[/img]

I hope you start feeling better soon Jadian.

Most colds or flus go straight to my lungs. I hate the taste of coughing up green and yellow infected phlegm. It's nasty. I'm hoping that since I quit smoking I'll be able to recover from the URIs quicker than usual.

*hugs Jadian*

I guess my sickest would be when I felt a little bad just before bed. Woke up at 3am feeling like a truck had hit me, every part of me ached.

I drove to the emergency room when the idiot...er, doctor told me I was having a asthma attack. Now I've only had one or two full out asthma attacks and neither of them made me think I had been hit by a truck, I just couldn't breathe...

He proscribed drugs. Now at 4 or 5 am, there is no place to get drugs AND I didn't think I was having a asthma attack anyway, so I went home and waited until 8am to call my doctor.

Now all this time I have taken nothing, because I wanted to describe symptoms accurately. Dumb move on my part... After I described symptoms to doc, I wanted tylenol, but they wouldn't give me any, because they were going to proscribe tylenol with codeine for me. *sigh* Meanwhile I had to get my lungs xray'd and turns out I had gone from 0 to pneumonia, do not pass go, do not collect $200.

So around 4pm I drag my ass home take drugs and sleep for two weeks. It was sort of amusing, every four hours the medication would wear off and I would wake up, took about a half hour to kick back in once I retook it. So I would hop on the net and everyone would tell me to go back to bed. [img]wink.gif[/img]

Feel better soon, Jade.

Last time I got sick like that was back in December when I was in Orlando...I couldn't get out of bed for the pngest time, save to lose what little was in my stomach...cost me a trip to Islands of Adventure Theme Park and made the flight home the next day a little more interesting...my girlfriend still doesn't let me live down the fact that I kept us from going to that park...

I hope you feel better, Jade...

So I got a secondary infection. After one day - ONE DAY! - of feeling better, I get sick again. I go to the doctor again. "My throat hurts," I say. "I can't swallow, it hurts too much."
"Open up," she says. Then "Uh-oh."
"Ugghhhh-ugh?"
She takes the tongue depressor out and steps back. "Did you have your measles shots?" she asks. "Any fever?"
"Uhm, yes. Two days ago. 102. I dunno about the shots. Why? Is it measles?"
"Any neck pain, stiffness?"
"Yes. Why? Is it measles?"
"Stiff neck could mean Meningitis. Been near any children lately?"
"Yes. I went to the Finding Nemo matinee. Why, is that how you get Meningitis?"
"Show me your hands and take off your shoes."
She inspects my palms and the soles of my feet, muttering. I am really freaked out by this point. No doctor has ever in my memory looked at my feet because I have a sore throat.
"Hmm," she says. "Good news here."
"What?"
"You don't have hand-foot-mouth disease."
"I don't even eat beef!"
She laughs. "No, nevermind. Not mad cow, don't worry. Not SARS either. I'm going to put you on these antibiotics..."
"Doctor, what's wrong with me?"
"Well, I'm sending you to get some blood work done. I'd like to know if you have measles, meningitis, or chicken pox."
"I've HAD chicken pox. When I was five."
"Oh. Well," she says cheerfully, "Maybe it's just good old Herpes."

The people in the waiting room, apparently, could hear me screaming.

*puts on protective clothing and gives Jadian a hug*

Hand/foot/mouth eh?

Edited to add... You did check and make sure this doctor didn't get her license out of a cracker jack box? Right?

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ June 05, 2003 11:25 PM: Message edited by: AsIs ]</font>

Doctors are eeeeeeeeeeevil. Let's hope for the best (like she gets hit by a bus, falls on a rusty spoon, gets AIDS, and dies) (and that you get better soon).

herpes .... *bursts out laughing* ...

sorry. inside joke.

i'd hug you, but i don't want to get what you have. [img]wink.gif[/img]

feel better soon, chicky. *Sends well wishes*