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Days Verse:
in Him we live and move and exist…
Acts 17:28
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The flu is really an amazing disease. Not only does it confine you to your bed for a full 10 days, but it has such an abundance of symptoms that I have kept wondering Am I sick with something else? The answer remains No, despite the fact that since getting the flu, I have experienced:
- Sore throat
- Agonizing back-of-the-head headache
- Full body aching
- Fever of up to 103.8°F
- Eyes hurting/feeling dry
- Increasingly — impressively— runny nose
- Side-of-the-head headache that felt like spikes driving into my temple
- Teeth hurting
- Inner ears hurting
- Face/front-of-the-head headache
- Dizziness
- Nausea (from my head, not my stomach, if you can imagine that)
- Bloodshot, itchy eye (like the start of pink eye)
- Clogged ears
- General headache
- Utter exhaustion for a full 10 days
- Disinclination for food
I list these in no particular order, although two solid days Tylenol quickly ended the fever, which never returned. By impressively runny nose, I mean that I used up three full, new boxes of Kleenex, plus one half-full box, not counting the nose blowing I did into wash cloths and toilet paper (Ian had to make an emergency run to obtain more Kleenex the other day; I have made good headway into two of the four boxes he brought home). In four or so days I consumed 2 1/2 cups of lemon juice and almost 32 oz of honey. I listened to all of Lord of the Rings on tape (MP3, really), all of Ian’s Sam Spade episodes, and a good number of episodes of The Shadow. I watched five movies and read two or three books (with a headache and sore eyes, I mostly spent my time propped up in bed, eyes closed, listening to Ian’s iPod).