Jun 19
aw, HELL to the no!
So… I’ve been blowing my nose all day long… I got home and was just really really thirsty, but had no appetite.
I came up to my room and read for a bit, then turned on a movie and sort of dozed off. I woke up a few minutes later feeling really warm. I checked the A/C and it’s set to 75 degrees, which is a good temperature for me - cool but not enough to give me a chill.
Drank some bottled water and an iced green tea. Performed a nasal irrigation. Even after splashing nice cool water on my face, I was feeling warm. SO… I went downstairs and asked my mom where she had placed the thermometer she was using during her illness - because I wanted to check my temperature just in case.
She instantly went into worried mommy mode and the hand flew to my forehead. “You do feel a bit warm,” she said in Polish (”Czujesz się troszke ciepła.”) She got out the box of “probe covers” for the electronic thermometer and I popped it in… beep… beep… beep… beepbeepbeep.
101.3˚F. A fever. Great.
I don’t feel sick… I feel like I have allergies. It’s possible that I have a fever due to a sinus or ear infection (I am experiencing pain in both). But we’ll see. I’m going to take a reading around 10:00 and then tomorrow morning. If I continue to have a fever, I’ll have to stay home. I can’t risk getting people at work sick and starting this trend of sickness and contagion in the workplace.
I guess I should go ahead and find myself a PCP just in case. My old PCP doesn’t accept my current insurance, so I’ll see if I can find a new one close by - in case antibiotics are needed down the road. Thank goodness I can find and select one via the United Healthcare website. Awww, yeah. Technology.
I’m also downing Gatorade like it’s the last fluid available. Hydration, as I’ve said before, is key.
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