Of high fever.

I have finally recovered from a high fever of 39-40°C which lasted for 2 full days.
During this period my mum tried to cool me down by kiapping my armpits with cloth soaked in ice water, laid the same thing on my forehead, neck and chest but to no avail.
Took the usual sure-work chinese medicine, didn't work.
Took antibiotics, got worse.
Then Panadol extra was quite good. Though it kicked in only after 2 hours or so.
The first day was shitty, felt quite incapacitated though i could still joke around with people.
Second day i had a jab with something i don't know. Felt better in the afternoon, but in the evening when i took the antibiotics, somehow my temp started shooting up to 39 and stayed there till 1 am or so. I had to cool myself down in the shower for 15 minutes to go back to 37. And the water dripping down to my feet was warm. Quite a water heater eh.

After shower, i desperately searched mayoclinic for some life saving advice. Then it said that the body temp is set by the hypothalamus and since it set much higher now, i will tend to shiver and wrap myself with a blanket to reach that set-pt. Pretty true.
Then the reason being that some virus and bacteria are more vulnerable at higher temperatures so it's easier to kill them. So i did wrap myself, lightly. I didn't want my brain to burn.

And voila, at 1 am i was cool and back at 36.3! (or was it at 7am)

Then today i went back for the second jab on my left butt. Man, the needle was huge. I just shut my eyes and held my breath while she jabbed my butt. I had trouble getting off the bed even after massaging the injection site to disperse the medicine.

This time i think i noted the medicine, but they could have changed it. Cefoxin - for Cephalosporins, mix with Lidocaine HCl (anaesthetic). Then i saw the bad news on the instructions : " Inject DEEPLY into the GLUTEAL REGION ". Right now i still can't walk properly. I think it's because my butt has no fat so it all went straight to the deepest end of the muscle or hit the bones. lol

Anyway during the fever, i think i hallucinated abit. I felt that i was spilt into 2. Weird.
Then now the only problem left is that i have tonsillitis again.......
My palatine tonsils are swollen so i can't swallow well and without pain. It hurts even swallowing room temp porridge. =\


Direct your loving kindness to me, in hope that i recover speedily. =D

Tschuess.