Night Five: Personal note
Jun. 18th, 2011 07:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amanda_loddenWhen I said that yesterday, Florida won-- apparently I didn't know the half of it. We had a nice quiet evening, and then....
Maybe a little backstory first. Ever since the thunderstorm on Day Two, my sinuses have been draining. It really hadn't been anything more than an annoyance, and seemed not worth blogging about. When I go back to read those entires later, I want to remember the fun and silly stuff, not the "whine, moan, I've got the sniffles" stuff. The only reason the blisters are in there is because I got them last time we were in Orlando too, and I'm hoping that if I write things like that down I might learn from it on future trips.
Still, it seemed odd. I spent the last couple days saying "I *must* be allergic to something here that isn't at home" because I didn't have ANY other symptoms. Zero. Zilch.
Until I went to bed last night. See, I've got the AC set to my comfort temperature, because it's the lowest, and I figure it's easier to use blankets and the like to warm up than it is to try to cool down. When I crawled into bed last night, I was freezing cold. And I thought "oh, the wet rain and then air conditioned movie theater is catching up with me, and now I need to rebalance." So I cuddled up to John The Furnace, and waited.
And waited.
And waited. And *shivered*.
So with much effort, I hauled myself out of the bed and kicked the AC one degree warmer. Not a lot, because I didn't want to overcompensate. Then I went back to bed.
Where I continued to shiver, sometimes wracking my entire body with them. And finally, it began to occur to me that this might not be normal.
I'll skip over the details of the unpleasantness of the night. Suffice to say, the fever didn't break until 6am, and I was up pretty much all night, with just 20 minutes naps now and then. I'm awake now because I was ravenously hungry, and once I'm done with breakfast I'm going back to bed. And probably staying there most of the day.
Maybe a little backstory first. Ever since the thunderstorm on Day Two, my sinuses have been draining. It really hadn't been anything more than an annoyance, and seemed not worth blogging about. When I go back to read those entires later, I want to remember the fun and silly stuff, not the "whine, moan, I've got the sniffles" stuff. The only reason the blisters are in there is because I got them last time we were in Orlando too, and I'm hoping that if I write things like that down I might learn from it on future trips.
Still, it seemed odd. I spent the last couple days saying "I *must* be allergic to something here that isn't at home" because I didn't have ANY other symptoms. Zero. Zilch.
Until I went to bed last night. See, I've got the AC set to my comfort temperature, because it's the lowest, and I figure it's easier to use blankets and the like to warm up than it is to try to cool down. When I crawled into bed last night, I was freezing cold. And I thought "oh, the wet rain and then air conditioned movie theater is catching up with me, and now I need to rebalance." So I cuddled up to John The Furnace, and waited.
And waited.
And waited. And *shivered*.
So with much effort, I hauled myself out of the bed and kicked the AC one degree warmer. Not a lot, because I didn't want to overcompensate. Then I went back to bed.
Where I continued to shiver, sometimes wracking my entire body with them. And finally, it began to occur to me that this might not be normal.
I'll skip over the details of the unpleasantness of the night. Suffice to say, the fever didn't break until 6am, and I was up pretty much all night, with just 20 minutes naps now and then. I'm awake now because I was ravenously hungry, and once I'm done with breakfast I'm going back to bed. And probably staying there most of the day.
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Date: 2011-06-18 05:26 pm (UTC)