I've hardly been able to look in here for the last 10 days. It started out on the Sunday,generally not feeling great in the evening transitioning into fever and generam malaise. Hit all my arsnel of anti-flu/cold remedies and went to bed. Well, this one was a doozy. Felt like I was run over by Mac truck. Lasted till early Tues AM. Whew, I thought...that wasn't fun, but  life goes on. Felt great by Tues afternoon...even treated 2 patients. By 7pm tho, it was back. Not as bad, but definatly coming for another round. This happened for another 2 nights before I finally gave in and went to the Dr. Turns out I have pneumonia in 2 lobes.

Antibiotics are helping, but I keep getting this horrid headache from my muscles tensing up. I splurged on a massage yesterday with one of the best therapists in the area. Wish I could afford that every day as I recover!!!!!

I know I am on the mend. This was my first illness as  a single person. It really sucks to be sick and on your own. A couple friends brought supplies early in the week, but because they are afraid of catching anything, they just dropped the goods and kept going. It wasn't till Friday that I felt any loving touch when I went to my therapist for help getting my GP sorted out (I didn't know who had been assigned to me). She rubbed my back lightly as I cried about how lonely it is when you have noone to bring you a drink, rub your back, or advocate for you.

So if you know someone who is ill (or actually, if they don't appear at a normal function, call and check on them...no-one did this for me so many were in the dark) call and see how they are. And unles your system is really compromised (I have NO idea how this one snuck by me tho), you are usually safe if you follow clean proceedures to at least just go anc check onthe person, perhaps sit and talk for awhile, bring hem a drink, etc.

The littlest things would have made last week so much more bearable for me. I'll remember that in the future for all my friends!

"If you think you’re too small to have an impact, try going to sleep in a room with a mosquito." ~ Author unknown.

If you could be doing something this very moment… anything you wanted to do… without limitation… let your mind be wide open and GO… BE… DO… what would you be doing?

 

Swimming with the turtles in Akumal, Mexico, searching for my big buddy the Barracuda (see my  pics at http://wcswingdancer.zaadz.com/photos), and looking for the big Moray eel that eluded me on my last trip. I realised then that my true, Cancerian water-child side was probably never happier than when I was with the turtles and the fish.