Feeling miserable..

Ugh, I’m ill at the moment. This happens maybe once a year, but like I think I said previously, I just get a sore throat which lasts ages.

This time started with bags under my eyes. Assuming it was from lack of sleep (which makes sense, since I’ve been up late working on an essay due the 13th), I just went to bed earlier.

The next day I woke up with a very fuzzy head, dry mouth and cough, which I put down to sleeping with my mouth open. Additionally, my eyes were very sensitive to light. As the day progressed, I gradually got worse and worse. I opted to stay indoors all day to do work (ha), and by the time 9pm came round, I had really bad back- and sideache, a worse cough, suitcases under my eyes and shooting pains through random parts of my body. My previously fuzzy head got very temperamental, and decided it was going to make me go all dizzy and weird if I moved about too much. So it took me about 5 mins just to get upstairs.

I went to bed about 10pm, after taking paracetamol – I have to be practically dying to take ANYTHING, so it was bad. I was wearing pyjamas and curled up under the duvet as I normally do…ten minutes later I was breaking out into a sweat. You would’ve thought I was wearing about 15 layers on the hottest day of the year. However, my hands and feet were freezing cold for a while, then they rapidly became as hot as my head. Obviously I was ridiculously uncomfortable, and my forehead felt like it was on fire. Definitely a temperature, though I don’t have a thermometer so I have no idea how high it was. 

I managed to open the window in my half-conscious state, and shifted over to the cooler side of the bed and pillows, eventually falling asleep. Perhaps fresh air was all I needed; I woke up this morning and my head is still slightly dodgy, my eyes are bad, and I still have a very small, dulled pain and a dry mouth and cough, but normal temp. (I assume), and my head and eyes are way better. 

My 21st birthday party is tomorrow, and Saturday, and probably Sunday morning, and my family are coming to visit me for my actual birthday on Monday, so I need to hurry up and get completely better!