I don’t know if it’s the nights, or the terrible habit of not drinking any water, or the contact with sick people when I’m exhausted, but I’m sick again. This is ridiculous. I went through a whole year without being sick, more or less, and now every flipping time I do nights I get sick. This time it’s very vague, though. My stomach’s not happy, I’m pyrexial, and just feel a bit under the weather.
I first really noticed it at work; I was just feeling a bit rough and checked my temperature (38.6C / 101.5F) – and having whined a bit downed some paracetamol and ‘brufen.
It quickly came down again, and I didn’t really think about it again until I got home, downing my night-nurse which I reckoned would give me a better day’s sleep and keep my temperature down, but when I got up yesterday I still felt rough and ended up cancelling my night shift (much to my agency’s annoyance).
I hoped I’d feel better today – as proof to myself that I’m ill I slept most of the night despite sleeping all day. But I do, in fact, still feel pretty awful. I gave in at 6am and came and took more paracetamol and ‘brufen, ‘cos I can feel I’ve got a good-going high temperature (without resorting to my thermometer).
I’ve got to do one errand today, but that’s it, apart from probably stopping off to pick up lots more paracetamol and ‘brufen. Hopefully when I’m feeling a bit better I can have some breakfast. The only other thing that needs doing today is studying, and that’s fairly low impact, but I need to be better for my ILS training tomorrow.
