travis' brain dump

round one and two definitely went to the respiratory system… I got owned. Anyone who came in contact with me Monday-Tuesday of last week… I apologize for more than likely passing this thing onto you. The way we’ve figured out the math on this thing, you don’t even know you’ve got it when you’re spreading it… nice huh? It’s a sneaky one for sure. From what we can gather is…  you pick it up. It sits for 2-3 days and starts it’s going public with itself. At about day 4 or 5 you start off with a little cough then within 12 hours it drops on you like a ton of bricks… fever, aches, headache, cough that makes you feel like a lung is coming up… what a fun time, let me tell ya. Reminds you of something out of one of those Stephen King novels except thankfully this one doesn’t lead to Mother Abigail or Randall Flagg showing up in your dreams. (reference: The Stand if you’re lost) LOL

So far Amanda is the only one who has  been *knocks-on-wood* spared… Andy and Arwen got theirs Friday night. 🙁

This thing packed a punch let me tell ya. After my blog post on Thursday is when it all went downhill. By 2:30pm I could feel the fever ramping up and I ached, all over. I bailed out of work and by the time I made it home I could barely stand. I literally came right in and went to bed. I woke up around 6 when Andy got here and decided I’d hang out with the family downstairs for a little while. I literally turned into a veggie on the couch… I just laid there until around 10 and went back to bed. I pretty much slept on and off until I got up to go to the doctor around 11:30 Friday.

Dragging myself to the doctor’s office was probably one of the most painful experiences of my life… At least I found out it wasn’t the flu… Highest reading on the thermometer was recorded at this point… 103.1 I got some drugs to make me feel comfortable and went home… I continued to sleep. Around 5:30 I forced myself upstairs (I had quarantined myself to the guest room downstairs, lol) and tried to watch some TV… 7pm and my fever finally began to break… I’ve sweat less doing an intense workout. If I wasn’t on the road to dehydration before, I was now.

Saturday and today I’ve been steady improving although I’m still a little washed out today and it looks like Arwen is at least coming to the end of her fever phase so she should start feeling better shortly too. I should be good to go by tomorrow though which is a good thing. Way to waste a weekend! Especially one with absolutely perfect temperatures and tons of new snow in the mountains… (i’m quite upset) I definitely wouldn’t wish this one on anyone… it was a rough one for sure.

Well, onto more relaxation/recovery… we got Amanda’s RDM up to lvl 11 last night so we’re going to duo today and see if we can’t go for completion of her subjob quest by the end of the day. 🙂 The good thing with the duo will be I’ll get to level my NIN today too. 🙂 Where are ya Mike? She’s catchin up to you bad bro!