Hospital Trip

It started about Tuesday with really sore knees... I thought it was due to the huge amounts of walking. But sitting down with any bent-knee for any length of time made it worse. The pain would go up to my hip, and down to my calves.

A couple of days ago I started to get achy, and lost appetite. The ache moved through the joints and included the muscles.

Yesterday I had no appetite and 24hrs of the runs. Actually I think that started on Thursday...

Last night I went between sweating and shivering, and developed a headache. The entire body feels like a Mac Truck ran over it.

Today it feels worse. I went to the hospital finally and had my temperature taken. It was 38.5C... it used to be 37C until I had my appendix ripped out of me in 1993, and from that point on it dropped to 35.5C. So that explains why my bones and muscles are so sore, why my head is throbbing, why my ears are burning, why I go from shivers to sweats...

They also did an influenza test, and both A and B types came back "negative". Which really only means that right now they couldn't find anything. There are false negatives, and false positives in every medical test.

So they gave me anti-diarrhea medicine, acetominophen as well as something for colds. I asked them if it would be possible to also get Tamiflu, and they said yes. I had two options, one was the Tamiflu itself and is in capsule form. The other came in an inhaler. Both have apparently the same effects, but I think that the inhaler has less side-effects. I took the capsules. I like side effects.

The funny thing is... a year or so ago when Tamiflu came on the Japanese market there was some really strange stuff happening... several people who got the medicine (all were early in teens) seemed to have sudden delusional ... whatevers and three of them ended up throwing themselves out of their windows and killing themselves. It was a real problem as the drug companies tried to figure out what the problem was... well, they have it again, so maybe it was either hushed up, or it turned out to be unrelated. Either way, if I do throw myself out the window, the only thing I will succeed in doing is landing on the ground that needs weeding. So who knows, right? Some things that are safe in the USA (belladonna) are considered a narcotic in Canada...

Excuse me while I go and die now...

I love you!

Cam