In which I am recovering (but too slowly)
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carbonelOn Monday afternoon, I started coughing. I attributed this to my having inhaled some baby powder, but it kept going on and on. On Monday night, I took my temperature, and it was 100.2. So definitely not the baby powder. I revised my theory to acute bronchitis.
Tuesday was miserable. I took aspirin and Sudafed, but it didn't seem to help the fever, which peaked at 102.4. I didn't eat anything, though I did try to keep hydrated by drinking water.
On Wednesday, the aspirin finally seemed to do the job, and the fever got down to 100.0. I ate some chicken soup. It stayed down, but that's about all I can say for it.
Today, Thursday, the cough has turned into a productive one, and wow does my diaphragm hurt when I cough. I ate my last can of emergency for-sickness can of chicken soup. The fever is mostly gone, but I hurt all over. I worked a half-day -- the downside of working at home is that I can do that sort of thing instead of just hibernating.
Tomorrow, I would really like to feel healthy again. I can cope with the sniffles and coughing, but I want the brain fog to be gone. I also wish to be able to develop some interest in food. At the moment, nothing sounds good. (Would that I could invoke this feeling at will without being sick; it would be great for weight control.) For people who know me, the best exemplar of just how miserable I've been feeling is that I've done zero spinning since Monday night.
In the middle of all of this, I had to cope with a change in travel plans. In mid-February, I was originally supposed to fly to Hong Kong, spend a couple of days there on my own, then meet my mother on a cruise and continue with her to Singapore. Except that because of the coronavirus situation (12 confirmed cases in Hong Kong), the cruise line decided ("in an abundance of caution," said the email) to cancel the Hong Kong stop and change it to Taipei.
So I had to be functional enough to consider the options. Delta has good flights to Hong Kong and from Singapore (from and to MSP). It does not have good flights to Taipei. There's a good chance that either the cruise line or the insurance policy I purchased long ago will cover the cost, but only at the original level -- and the reason the Delta MSP-TPE flights are so expensive is that only business class seats are available. It turned out that the best option was to throw away the MSP-Hong Kong segment entirely, and buy a new one-way MSP-TPE flight on United. Delta wouldn't give me any credit for the unused leg, because the current price for the one-way fare is more than I paid for the entire ticket, but the agent was willing, under the circumstances, to convert the open-jaw fare to a one-way.
I'm seriously bummed, because I was really looking forward to those days in Hong Kong, but there's nothing I can do about it. I'll only be on my own in Taipei overnight, or I would try to get together withjiawen.
And I'd damned well better be completely healthy by then.
Tuesday was miserable. I took aspirin and Sudafed, but it didn't seem to help the fever, which peaked at 102.4. I didn't eat anything, though I did try to keep hydrated by drinking water.
On Wednesday, the aspirin finally seemed to do the job, and the fever got down to 100.0. I ate some chicken soup. It stayed down, but that's about all I can say for it.
Today, Thursday, the cough has turned into a productive one, and wow does my diaphragm hurt when I cough. I ate my last can of emergency for-sickness can of chicken soup. The fever is mostly gone, but I hurt all over. I worked a half-day -- the downside of working at home is that I can do that sort of thing instead of just hibernating.
Tomorrow, I would really like to feel healthy again. I can cope with the sniffles and coughing, but I want the brain fog to be gone. I also wish to be able to develop some interest in food. At the moment, nothing sounds good. (Would that I could invoke this feeling at will without being sick; it would be great for weight control.) For people who know me, the best exemplar of just how miserable I've been feeling is that I've done zero spinning since Monday night.
In the middle of all of this, I had to cope with a change in travel plans. In mid-February, I was originally supposed to fly to Hong Kong, spend a couple of days there on my own, then meet my mother on a cruise and continue with her to Singapore. Except that because of the coronavirus situation (12 confirmed cases in Hong Kong), the cruise line decided ("in an abundance of caution," said the email) to cancel the Hong Kong stop and change it to Taipei.
So I had to be functional enough to consider the options. Delta has good flights to Hong Kong and from Singapore (from and to MSP). It does not have good flights to Taipei. There's a good chance that either the cruise line or the insurance policy I purchased long ago will cover the cost, but only at the original level -- and the reason the Delta MSP-TPE flights are so expensive is that only business class seats are available. It turned out that the best option was to throw away the MSP-Hong Kong segment entirely, and buy a new one-way MSP-TPE flight on United. Delta wouldn't give me any credit for the unused leg, because the current price for the one-way fare is more than I paid for the entire ticket, but the agent was willing, under the circumstances, to convert the open-jaw fare to a one-way.
I'm seriously bummed, because I was really looking forward to those days in Hong Kong, but there's nothing I can do about it. I'll only be on my own in Taipei overnight, or I would try to get together with
jiawen.And I'd damned well better be completely healthy by then.
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Date: 2020-01-31 02:00 am (UTC)("works out well" necessarily includes No Lung Glop.)
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Date: 2020-01-31 06:12 am (UTC)I hope you are feeling back to your best for your trip. It sounds like it will still be pretty great. Singapore is super interesting, not to mention.
K.
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Date: 2020-01-31 08:40 am (UTC)The trip still sounds pretty fab, even trading Hong Kong for Taipei.