beyondfantasy3 113M
2003 posts
1/31/2015 5:50 am
Nasty Colds


The weather was very nasty a week ago, then we had temps in the 70's.

Whamo -- out of nowhere, Tuesday night, everything in my body ached and it took a lot of efforts to get up and go to work. By the time I arrived at work, things started to get worst, coughing, red eyes, runny nose, more aches, was zapped, so I drank a Red Bull.. until I left work.

I stopped to talk to the Pharmacist to get something to head off the cold.
I spent the past three days, with a crazy mixture of difficulty staying warm while sweating excessively. I had on undershirt and over shirt, bottoms and socks, and two times I had to get up and completely change clothes they were soaking wet.
The oddity is, the I felt better while I was sweating, than when I was not. I went to the doctor yesterday, he gave me two shots, cough syrup and antibiotics. This is the first time I've come close to a computer or anything else outside the bed since I came home Wed.
I think the fever made me loose track of time, I could not remember how many days I was off work, and did not remember the last day that I ate food.

I do know that I had opened a can of soup, I ate half, put the other half in the refrigerator, but I don't don't remember it was Wednesday or Thursday. I do remember eating the second half yesterday, before going to the doctor. About 9pm last night I opened a new can of soup, I ate half. so I guess I will eat the other half this morning.

This is the craziest cold. The doctor tested me for flu, and thank goodness he said its not the flu. ( I did get the vaccine earlier when it was first offered).

While at the doctors office, I made sure there was empty chair on each side of me, and I had on a hoodie and kept it covering my mouth and nose, as I did not know what the other people had, as to why they were there. Once I put the space between me and other, I noticed the new arrivals put space between themselves and others. When I first went in all the people were sitting side by side. I did not see that as a good idea.


Even with medical coverage, (everything is expensive) things I bought at the pharmacy on Wednesday, then the co-pay at the doctor, and the cost of prescriptions. The cost of 'juice", is outrageous, but necessary.

I did learn something about my thermostat, not clearly, but prospectively, for some reason it was up on the highest setting, but the house was still cold and it shut off because the temp reading was 85, I opened it up and there is a little dial inside, I made some adjustment to it, and the heater started working where it stayed on to warm up the house. ( I will contact my friend, who does heating and air, and ask him about this dial, maybe I will have him to check it out, and see if i need to install a new one, or if the adjustment I made will suffice.)

It's been a long time since I had a cold (years)....

Colds can be full debilitating to normal daily activity. I noticed my dogs, made their adjustment, one always sleeps beside the bed, the other guards the rest of the house, when she feels everything is safe, she then comes and sleeps by the bed, or she will guard the door to my bedroom. Dogs are very smart and they have a determination to care and guard the people they love.

My family called many many times, but I told them they can't come over, because I don't want them to catch whatever it is that gave me the cold. If things had gotten worst, I'd call 911. Thank goodness I figured out that since the comforter did not keep me warm, (even with a additional heater on in my bedroom, I put on multiple layers of clothes and got back under the comforter, everything got dripping wet, which I had to change three times.

Still very weak and wobbly..... I need today to go and get a haircut, and that is about the extend of plans for today. I'm washing my bed linen and the mattress cover.... Once its done, I will remake the bed.

I will ride the exercise bike for a bit and just try to make myself a homemade soup.
I can't eat any heavy food as I have some appointments which recommend that I do not eat heavy foods and do a liquid diet from Monday.

I can't let the cold double back on me, so besides the excursion to get a hair cut, I will remain indoors.

angelspirit48 50F
53 posts
1/31/2015 7:01 am

Taka care Beyond and get well soon


beyondfantasy3 113M
4740 posts
2/4/2015 3:47 am

Thank each of you.... It was one of the strangest and nastiest cold I can imagine