Have been a bit under the weather the last few days. It started when I was on the bus on Sunday, and I started feeling chest pains, feeling like my heart was thudding against my ribcage. Being male, I did a bit of shopping, saw a movie although my chest was hurting more and more - by the way, Brick, the movie, big recommendation, although takes a bit to get into.
Anyways, past the hospital twice to town and back and not stopping off to check anything out. My chest still hurting quite a bit. Went to bed, had a sleep, woke up and felt a lot better. But almost as soon as I got into the office Monday morning, I tried to raise my left arm to get my headset off the monitor, and sharp pains shot through me. Told the boss how I felt, made an appointment for the doctor, and headed home.
I shouldn't have had the piece of McDonald's toast though, because that made me miss the train by all of about thirty seconds, and I had to wait another half hour to get home.
Pottered around the house until the appointment at the medical centre, said to the doc that I felt chest pains on Sunday, chest twinges as I was describing them on the Monday - was put on the ECG for about five minutes, checking my heart rate and stuff. Diagnosis was not a heart problem or anything like that, rather I had caught a virus that had inflamed the muscles on my rib cage. Take two panadols every few hours and see how tomorrow goes - and silly me said don't bother with the medical certificate...
Tuesday morning, 3am, I awoke in a big fever, covered in sweat - my ribcage hurt so much it felt ready to crack. Feeling coming and going from my limbs - then trouble breathing. Staggering down the stairs to have a drink of orange juice, and suddenly the feeling of almost panic, of whether I should ring for an ambulance, left. Passing in and out of sleep for the next few hours, dreaming that I had to write a report at work about how sick I was, dreaming that I flaked out, seizure like. So realistic, the only way I knew it was a dream is that I didn't wake up with every muscle and joint sore.
In no situation to go to work with the lack of sleep I had - read a book, slept and web surfed on Tuesday. Got more chills on Tuesday evening and night, so rugged up completely when going to bed that night, and then got completely overheated, headache and all the morning after.
Without a medical certificate, kind of thought that I would need to head back to a doctor for a third day off in a row, but of course with it being Ekka Day, all of 9 to 5 Brisbane was off, including the doctors. Rang the afterhours, but their voice message said that if they thought it wasn't major, they would just recommend seeing a normal hours GP - and I didn't feel that sick.
Still, spent the morning sleeping, the afternoon reading - with a throbbing headache, constant muscle aches, wanting to cough but not being able to breathe deeply enough to do so, as well as sneezing.
Today, the headache had gone, but my throat is still scratchy - but felt well enough to head into the office. Minimal time on the phones though, was working my way through email and fax things to do instead. Was feeling sick earlier this evening, that my lungs and throat were filling with muck, with minimal allowance to cough it all out, but it is okay just at the moment...
Paul
Anyways, past the hospital twice to town and back and not stopping off to check anything out. My chest still hurting quite a bit. Went to bed, had a sleep, woke up and felt a lot better. But almost as soon as I got into the office Monday morning, I tried to raise my left arm to get my headset off the monitor, and sharp pains shot through me. Told the boss how I felt, made an appointment for the doctor, and headed home.
I shouldn't have had the piece of McDonald's toast though, because that made me miss the train by all of about thirty seconds, and I had to wait another half hour to get home.
Pottered around the house until the appointment at the medical centre, said to the doc that I felt chest pains on Sunday, chest twinges as I was describing them on the Monday - was put on the ECG for about five minutes, checking my heart rate and stuff. Diagnosis was not a heart problem or anything like that, rather I had caught a virus that had inflamed the muscles on my rib cage. Take two panadols every few hours and see how tomorrow goes - and silly me said don't bother with the medical certificate...
Tuesday morning, 3am, I awoke in a big fever, covered in sweat - my ribcage hurt so much it felt ready to crack. Feeling coming and going from my limbs - then trouble breathing. Staggering down the stairs to have a drink of orange juice, and suddenly the feeling of almost panic, of whether I should ring for an ambulance, left. Passing in and out of sleep for the next few hours, dreaming that I had to write a report at work about how sick I was, dreaming that I flaked out, seizure like. So realistic, the only way I knew it was a dream is that I didn't wake up with every muscle and joint sore.
In no situation to go to work with the lack of sleep I had - read a book, slept and web surfed on Tuesday. Got more chills on Tuesday evening and night, so rugged up completely when going to bed that night, and then got completely overheated, headache and all the morning after.
Without a medical certificate, kind of thought that I would need to head back to a doctor for a third day off in a row, but of course with it being Ekka Day, all of 9 to 5 Brisbane was off, including the doctors. Rang the afterhours, but their voice message said that if they thought it wasn't major, they would just recommend seeing a normal hours GP - and I didn't feel that sick.
Still, spent the morning sleeping, the afternoon reading - with a throbbing headache, constant muscle aches, wanting to cough but not being able to breathe deeply enough to do so, as well as sneezing.
Today, the headache had gone, but my throat is still scratchy - but felt well enough to head into the office. Minimal time on the phones though, was working my way through email and fax things to do instead. Was feeling sick earlier this evening, that my lungs and throat were filling with muck, with minimal allowance to cough it all out, but it is okay just at the moment...
Paul
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