Feverish Week

Tuesday afternoon I had a headache so I knew that something was up. It didn't go away for the rest of the afternoon and into the evening. During dinner my appetite hit the rocks and my headache was getting progressively worse. I told ma petite amie and she insisted on taking my temperature. I was at 38.5 C (101.3 F.) From this point on my nights of sleep for the rest of the weren't too pretty.

For the first night I don't even think that a slept at all. I pretty much just laid there and listen to music, while sweating profusely, while flipping a cool cloth over and over on my head. I had to change my shirt ever hour because it was literally soaked (this became a nightly theme of mine).

One thing that was interesting about spending most of the week in my bedroom is that I had a lot of memories of pretty much my entire life. These memories started when I was in preschool and I had memories, consecutively, of every year since then. It was pretty weird; like a slow movie of my life that didn't seem to have any rhyme or reason to what memories I would experience. In retrospect I'm wondering if I was a bit delusional. I really didn't sleep that well at all and it might have started to make me a bit loopy.

On Thursday I decided that I needed to go to the doctor because Wednesday wasn't going so hot. I wasn't able to get an appointment until Friday. Fortunately the day was absolutely raging in a wave of spring weather so I spent a bit of time to enjoy outside. I didn't have the chills so that was a good.

When I went to find exactly where the doctor was. At first I was a bit confused because where the doctor was I was a but confused. All I could find was an apartment complex. Then I noticed that there was a little plaque that stated that the doctor was in the apartments complex on the second floor (1st floor by French standards). After finding the magic button to push to get the door open I entered this mysterious building to find the doctor.

On the second floor I wondered around for a bit looking for the doctors office. I found it a bit silly that I was looking at normal looking apartment doors for a doctors office. Yet finally I found the door after finding another magic button I entered. There was a hallway with several doors where 3 were labeled: restroom, doctors office, and waiting room. I could hear that the doctor was with someone is his office so I went for the waiting room. There was woman inside and I asked her if I needed to check in. She said no, so I waited.

Eventually I was able to see the doctor. After doing an explanation of symptoms: headache, fever, a slight "wiggly fingers gesture" in the throat, and just a little heaviness in the chest yet with not troubles breathing. After a few standard tests and a fever more questions I was givens some medications and sent home to rest for the weekend.

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Right now I'm feeling a lot better my fever is basically gone. I hope that it is fully gone by tomorrow but there might be just a slight lingering, I'm not sure. Anyway that is the summary of my week. I'm going back to class tomorrow.