Friday, August 7, 2009

My Very Own Viral Fever Testimony

Wednesday 29 July 2009

I was attending a grooming class in one of the spa in Indera Mahkota Kuantan. The coordinator, who we call Kak Cah brought her teenage daughter along with her to the spa that day. I was as usual, chats with everybody. What I noticed was her daughter, by the name of Iba looked very pale, not because she's not wearing any colour on her face but she looks genuinely ill. Kak Cah told us that her daughter is having cold and flu, and she gets bored at home, therefore she allowed the daughter to come along with her that day.
Deep down in my heart, this is going to be dangerous for me as Iba keeps on sneezing and coughing and she doesnt carry even a single tissue in her hand to cover her sneezes and coughes. The spa is not really well ventilated, the rooms were air conditioned, which makes matters worst! I tried to stay away, but being a malay, it will offend the mother if I were to even suggest the idea that I am avoiding her daughter!!.

So I know where I got the virus from. A very Bad Bad Bad Virus!!!!

In the noon, Iba decided to go back and rest. When I heard that, I was relieved!!!
I thought I was safe, but I was already infected!!!

Thursday 30 July 2009
This is the day like every other day. I felt completely fine.

Friday 31 July 2009
When I wake up from bed in the morning, I felt my throat is irritated. Very mild irritation. I took water with me everywhere. I went to spa class again, and on the way, I dropped by seven eleven shop to buy 2 packs of fisherman friends lozenge, in pirsuit of dampening my throat irritation.
The class finishes at noon today, so I packed some lunch to go and eat at home. In my mind, I am going to attend my gym class at 5 today as my normal routines every friday. But what I was not expecting that I was feeling dizzy, and suddenly my body temperature starts rising to 39C right after I took my lunch. I was completely veged out in bed..helpless and damn!!!! I am down with cold.
I have no flu. Just sore throat and fever. My nose is completely dry. But I can fell at the centre of my forehead, in between my two eyes,right on the nose, some sort of very hot mucus got stuck there. That liquid (mucus) whatever does not go away even I try to clear my nose, blow both nose as hard as I could, but the "blockage" feeling is still there.
I wento to clinic this very night to get treatment. The doctor gave me some antibiotics for my throat and some paracetamol for my fever and some other medicine to reduce the swelling of my throat. I gobbled down every single medicine and tried to go to sleep but I cant. I keep tossing and turning on my bed. I did not know what happen until morning, but it was a restless night.

Saturday , 1 August 2009
I was bed ridden all day long. The only difference is that my sore throat doesnt bother me anymore, I have just a few dry cough and the fever is really exhausting me. The joints all over my body are aching, not that much of pouding aching, but it aches most of the time and because of that I was not even get out of bed at all. The only time I manage to get out of bed is when i need to urinate. I have no appetite at all to eat, I tried to chew something, and I only have the energy to chew 2 pieces of bread. All day long, I felt overwhelm exhaustion, sometime some body ache. I tried to close my eyes, but sleeps seems to be the most impossible thing to accomplish. I had insomnia. My eyes were close, but I dont really sleep. I wake on the slightest dream I had, or not even dreams, it seems like my brain are wired onto one TV that plays every single sitcom / drama and is never off.

Sunday, 2 August 2009
I was suppose to drive to KL today for a meeting I am about to have with my boss in HQ on monday morning. But all that pain and fever and exhaustion supercedes everything. I cancelled it all. I noticed that my fever have not gone down. What could possibly wrong this time? I started to panic. I covered myself with 2 layers of fleece blanket and 1 thick comforter. I squeezed inside there for hours, waiting for a single drop of sweat on my forehead. I waited long enough, I think from 10pm till around 2am, I sweat. I felt the tilt of joy the moment i feel the sweat came around my forehead, then my neck, and my back and my thigh. I am sweating all over and I felt good! Inside my head I keep telling myself, "I am stronger than the virus, you dont control me, I control you. So I want you to die through my sweat.." I sort of like chant it over and over in my head, projecting an image of the virus dissolved and die in my sweat..

After the hard work of sweating, of course my body temperature is high enough for me to sweat, I tried to cool myself down again. I wet towels and lay it on my forehead and neck to cool down.
And "the clogging mucus" that I felt on my nose slowly dissappears. I sniffled the mucus out and after that, there are no more mucus and my nose is clear.
In an attempt to cool my body temperature, water works to slow for me and I get a bit impatient, so I used ice cubes instead. Thank god it worked like a charm.

Monday 3 August 2009