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I am miserable. Since Sunday (March 11th, I believe) I've had the flu. Everything that could go wrong with my head has gone wrong. I MISSED SCHOOL ALL THIS WEEK (Though thankfully, we had Friday off, so I only missed four days). I dread making up all the work I've missed, particularly in... shudder... math.
First, it was a sore throat. Oh, how I hate sore throats. The runny and/or stuffy nose is one thing- that's just annoying- but a sore throat freaking hurts. Then the headaches. And that went on for Sunday and Monday.
So, on Monday night, I thought to myself, "Okay, I missed one day of school, no big deal. I'll wake up tomorrow and everything will be fine."
I laugh at my naievete.
You see, I had a Latin Exam that I was supposed to take on Tuesday. The NATIONAL Latin exam that I actually paid to take. I felt so crappy on Tuesday morning that when my dad came in to see if I was well enough to go to school, I said "SCREW THE TEST." Actually, even if I had felt better, I probably would have fallen asleep during the exam anyway.
The night before, I had taken a nasal decongestant (By this time my nose was bugging me a little) that- my mother forgot to warn me- could possibly make me hyperactive. Possibly of course. Now, if I had taken just that one, I probably would have gotten to sleep. But nooooooo, around midnight, I took another one.
I was so wide awake, I was pacing around my room while watching Naruto re-runs while my parents were sound asleep in the next room over. Stay up all night is not fun when you feel like CRAP.
Sometime around midday, joy of joys, I contracted a high fever, and was in and out of consciousness for the next 48 hours. As if the fever wasn't bad enough, the pain it caused was something else entirely. My head hurt, my ears hurt, my nose hurt, my throat hurt- oh hell, my teeth hurt at one point!
So, around early morning on Wednesday, the fever went away thanks to my good friend Ibuprofen. But then, my eyes started tearing up. So, I was rubbing them a lot. I rubbed and rubbed and rubbed, until I finally thought to take a Benydril (sp?) to make it stop. And it did.
Then, later on, it felt like something was in my left eye.
So, I rubbed it. Then I pulled on my eyelid. Then I shook it a little. Then I pulled the skin under my eyelid down. Then I tried washing my eye out. I tried again. Again. AGAIN. I talked to mom- she gave me eyedrops, and said that my eye might be scratched from rubbing it so much when they were tearing up.
Wonderful.
Then, on Thursday, my ears started hurting. And my nose was either stuffed to the point where I could barely breathe, or so runny I had to stick bits of tissue paper in it so I wasn't constantly wiping my nose. And all the while, I was constantly checking my temperature to make sure the fever didn't come back.
It is now Friday. My nose is mainly the only thing bothering me, and I swore to my friend Brittany that I'd be in school on Monday (or she'll drag me there).
I am going STIR-CRAZY. I CAN ONLY PLAY KINGDOM HEARTS FOR SO MANY HOURS BEFORE I FREAKIN' CRACK! I haven't been out of this house since maybe last Friday or Saturday- NEARLY A FREAKING WEEK!
The only upside to this whole ordeal was that it wasn't the stomach flu (I got that a year or two ago, and I still shudder horribly when I think of that little nightmare.
I missed a guy that I hate get hit in the family jewels THREE TIMES in gym class, and I've watched so many episodes of Maury, Jerry Springer, The Nanny and the Golden Girls I'm fit to lose my mind.
BEING SICK SUCKS!

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