I was sick!

Well, as swine flu sweeps across this nation, I bravely am still here writing. This entry is late though; let me explain.

A few weeks ago, I felt very cold with chills and realised I had a fever. So, I did not go to work and stayed home to recover. Instead, my condition worsened and I also had the flu. Every joint in my body groaned. I became delirious and could not think straight. At one point, I thought I saw the Angel of Death coming towards me and realised it was my sister coming to check on my temperature.

So, I visited a doctor and he gave me some medication. But, unfortunately, my weary body had an allergic reaction to the penicillin in the medication (I mean seriously, who uses penicillin these days?). This allergic reaction caused me to break out into hives and had pretty serious asthma. I felt like I had been bitten by a thousand mosquitoes and was coughing up a lung. So, on the saturday night, my family were quite worried and rushed me to hospital. So I waited for an hour and a half in the emergency ward. Once a doctor came to see me, he immediately put me in a hospital bed and placed an IV of fluids and antihistamines in my left arm, an oxygen mask on my face and an injection of more antihistamines in my right bicep. So the next day, I left the hospital with enough medication to last a lifetime. Apparently, the blood tests confirmed I did not have swine flu, even though I felt I had the bubonic plague.

So, a week and a half later, here I am. I can breathe again and am recovering. Life is beautiful