Okay so, I'm still sick....
Yesterday morning, since the rest of the group wouldn't arrive until later, I decided to take advantage of the free Internet and the lovely bed and spent the time completing some things I'd been putting off for our Legacy Travel website.
As I worked I noticed that my back was really hurting and that from time to time my stomach was hurting too. Finally I IM'd the office that I really had to get out of this bed. I took a shower and put on my swimsuit. As I was moving around the suite getting ready to go outside I noticed that I really just felt awful. Finally, I took my temperature. 100.5
Great. Maybe if I go lay in the sun for a few hours the sickness will bake out of me. So, I went to lie down on a deck chair. I just felt AWFUL! I couldn't get comfortable, I was just miserable.
So, I came back to the room and have been here ever since. Tylenol doesn't seem to even touch the fever. I had one more dose of Advil left and I finally took that yesterday evening and it did help for a while.
I haven't quite decided how I feel this morning. I'm thirsty, and it certainly feels better to be laying down, but you know how after you've been sick it's hard to rejoin life again? Like, laying around begets laying around?
The rest of the group did get here yesterday, but no one came to see me. (Can you blame them?)
My friend and heathcare advisor at home thinks I have either a flulike virus or Type B influenza. She recommended that I get some Tamiflu (which does not require a prescription here) and start taking it. I gave the butler some money and the hotel sent someone to town to pick it up. Several hours later I got word that they could not find it anywhere in Tulum. I guess my immune system is on its own to battle through whatever this is.
So, I guess I'll contemplate getting up in a little while.
More Later.
As I worked I noticed that my back was really hurting and that from time to time my stomach was hurting too. Finally I IM'd the office that I really had to get out of this bed. I took a shower and put on my swimsuit. As I was moving around the suite getting ready to go outside I noticed that I really just felt awful. Finally, I took my temperature. 100.5
Great. Maybe if I go lay in the sun for a few hours the sickness will bake out of me. So, I went to lie down on a deck chair. I just felt AWFUL! I couldn't get comfortable, I was just miserable.
So, I came back to the room and have been here ever since. Tylenol doesn't seem to even touch the fever. I had one more dose of Advil left and I finally took that yesterday evening and it did help for a while.
I haven't quite decided how I feel this morning. I'm thirsty, and it certainly feels better to be laying down, but you know how after you've been sick it's hard to rejoin life again? Like, laying around begets laying around?
The rest of the group did get here yesterday, but no one came to see me. (Can you blame them?)
My friend and heathcare advisor at home thinks I have either a flulike virus or Type B influenza. She recommended that I get some Tamiflu (which does not require a prescription here) and start taking it. I gave the butler some money and the hotel sent someone to town to pick it up. Several hours later I got word that they could not find it anywhere in Tulum. I guess my immune system is on its own to battle through whatever this is.
So, I guess I'll contemplate getting up in a little while.
More Later.
posted by Catherine Banks at 7:15 AM
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