It wasn’t that long since the last time I was very sick. I had a serious upper respiratory tract infection in June, which gave me fever for 5 days and I was suffering from muscular pains, sore throat, coughing, inability to conduct day-to-day affairs and confined to eating just a little stuff and sleeping for most of those days. One of those days I almost fainted, feeling a total loss of control of my limbs, breathing and thinking.
This time it isn’t that bad, but still bad enough. I started off with a stomachache in the morning, which wasn’t really that bad. In the afternoon, I felt a little nauseous and so skipped the Laksa lunch and survived on 2 packets of Muruku and a slice of watermelon. I’m not sure if it was the combination that was nasty or just the sheer quantity of Muruku I’ve taken and after that I started having diarrhoea and the urge to vomit became so overwhelming I was rushing back and forth the office and toilet. In that situation, it felt really bad to be in camp. I reported sick and was given a couple of medicine, after being at the Medical Center for close to 2 hours. It was a long wait (I vomited twice and had a single diarrhoea while there) in retrospect.
Eventually the medicine from the MO didn’t seem to work and I was developing a fever so I went to the SGH A&E and got a jab to stop my vomiting. The doctor thinks it’s food poisoning and I got back home tired, sleeping all the way with loads of discomfort coupled with the nausea.
This morning I woke up feeling a little better, sleeping again after breakfast and then waking up for lunch before sleeping again. In the evening I almost recovered but still with the feeling that the headache might come back anytime. I’m typing right now feeling slightly better than that and praying that I can last a little longer at the computer.
