I knew he wouldn't be able to resist!
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In case he pops in again, hi
@Damocles, miss you.
lol. Hello
@ZFire and
@tpj.
Yeah, I had logged on with the intention of giving an update on my abysmal state of being, then realised I still didn't have the energy to give that update, so here it is (now):
Course was going well, had 100% attendance in classes and was meeting assignment deadlines, then last Wednesday morning started feeling "not right". By Wednesday night I've got fever, headache and pain all over my body. Had intended to get through the infection without using any drugs (like usual) because tinnitus spikes, but symptoms were so bad I couldn't even make it through the first night. Had to take paracetamol, which eventually made things bearable, but I still couldn't sleep.
Made the mistake of watching
Don't Hug Me I'm Scared while in my insomniatic malaise, which made the whole thing feel like a fully interactive LSD trip. Felt so horrid I couldn't focus on anything anyway. Tried to start watching
Dragon Ball Super at one point, but that just made the headache worse, so settled for watching
Train to Busan for the 4th time.
Fever and headache etc. lasted for four days and I had to keep taking paracetamol regularly to get through it, which was spiking my tinnitus, but that had become a small price to pay to lower the fever at the time. Still, the most problematic symptom didn't develop until the Friday, when the whole of the back of my mouth, tonsils and throat, ulcerated. Couldn't eat or drink
anything without it feeling like I was swallowing a dozen razor blades. And so that lasted five days. Five days I survived by eating (I say "eating", but it was more a torturous form of wrestling down my throat) nothing but one bowl of soup a day.
In short, a total nightmare. And the worst part is I've marred my 100% attendance record for this year. Of course I understand it's a good thing to take time off when you
need it, but try explaining that to our communistic academic institutions. "Sick day? I'm sure we can find a
better student who doesn't believe in such an inefficient and outdated concept.".
TL;DR:vLife was going well, then I caught the bastard of all bastard Flus and enjoyed a week in one of Hell's thousand realms along with spiked tinnitus from the constant need to pop paracetamol like
Tic Tacs.
The spikes were temporary btw, tinnitus is back down but the illness has f*cked my already f*cked left Eustachian Tube, so equalisation is going to be off for a while it seems.
Apart from this I'm good, recovered and have a monster assignment to tackle this week.
Hope you're all keeping well.
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