Out Of Commission

I've been out of commission for about 3 weeks. First, I started feeling weak. Weak as in if I let it, I would just collapse like a heap of dirty laundry on the floor whether I was standing or sitting. I do have low blood pressure but it couldn't be this bad. I thought I may need some sugar so I ate. I only felt better for 15-20 minutes. If I continue eating for every 20 minutes just to keep my energy up I would be in trouble.

I visited the clinic and to the doctor's question of what's wrong with me, I answered "Nothing!" He laughed before I continued and tell him I felt weak. He took my blood pressure which just proof it was low. Checked if I had fever which I wasn't and proceed to prescribed multivitamin and advised me to take 100 plus on alternate days. Sigh! That didn't tell me what causes the low blood pressure.

The week after that, I finally had the fever. Not that I welcome the fever but at least I know why I felt so weak the previous week. I had the whole fever package. Sore throat, flu, cough. It started with dry cough because I have stuffed nose, I had to breathe through mouth which causes dryness of my throat. Then the cough turned to phlegm cough which was not good for my asthma at all. I had to cancel my outstation training, lucky for me somebody can take over.

It wasn't fun when I'm on MC but couldn't do anything because I wasn't up to anything at all. Eventhough that's the reason the doctor gave MC because I needed the rest and not supposed to do anything like clean house or shopping or blogging. So there goes my weekend too. Too weak to do anything. That was last weekend. On Monday I couldn't cancel training because nobody can take over my class. So it was really painful talking and coughing, it gave me chest pain. I wonder what goes through my participant's mind when I coughed so bad I had tears on my eyes and my face turned red.

I still have the occasional heavy cough every now and then... until now. But I felt so much better. Really, really better. God gave us some test like hardship and sickness to remind us to appreciate the easy times and our health. I felt like jumping up and down now that I felt better. I have the energy to do so many things now... the normal thing I couldn't do when I was sick. I got really worried I couldn't even take care of myself last week. Every little things becomes such a chore. This entry is a reminder to myself not to take my health for granted; to appreciate every second I can do the normal things because I'm healthy. I'm OK everybody :) I'm fine and feeling GREAT :)