Synthesis Flu 2008
So I was attacked by the flu plague that’s been going around and it literally put me down. I don’t remember being this sick EVER. It started as a slight cough with a cold, a little noise running – all standard February type of stuff with nothing out of the ordinary. Virtually everyone around me was getting sick and about 30% of the office had contracted something and was out at one point. They were calling it the Synthesis Flu for a few days. I knew it was bad when I was laying down and realized that – when closed – my eyes were actually hot. This was my incredibly obvious clue that I had in fact – contracted some type of flu plague and at that very moment actually had a fever. 101.8 to be exact. At that point I started taking Nyquil and proceeded to sleep for 40 hours in the following 48 hour period. It was brutal. I snapped out of it a few days later but I’m still somewhat hurting and coughing up a pseudo storm on a semi regular basis. I was coughing so hard that space between my eyebrows started hurting. This was no fun so I decided that after 11 days of this cold and being already passed the fever portion of the whole thing for 5 days I should go get checked out. This was after having several conversations with people all telling me I could have walking pneumonia or plague or the anthrax or something. I went to my Dr who was kind enough to give me an array or prescriptions to deal with the coughing including some cough syrup / codeine combo which seems to be working quite well. That along with my handy dandy new inhaler and it’s a wonder that I’m even considering going snowboarding tomorrow.
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