…they aren’t joking around. It’s worse if you get sick for a week and a half like I just did. I still have to finish my college apps, do my homework every night, run, and ski. And eat, sleep, shower, etc.
I just came home from college visits, and got rid of more than a week long sickness. I’ll discuss that in a post this weekend hopefully. If things happen as planned, which usually doesn’t happen around here.
Till then,
Ian
It seems every fall I get sick at the same time. About a month and a half into school I tend to develop some type of ailment. This time around every illness possible seemed to happen at once. It started early last week when I had a cold and pink eye…then on Monday I had the beginnings of a sore throat, so I went to see the Holderness nurse and I didn’t go to practice. Of course even then at 7 p.m. I had developed discolored phlegm and nasty stuff, and an earache. I went to bed after taking both decongestant and acetaminophen, and drinking tons of water. I woke up about 5 times throughout the night with both a splitting headache and a stinging sore throat, and could barely stand up to get a drink of water. Yesterday morning I woke up sweating with chills. It turns out I had a sinus infection coupled with a sore throat, 102.5+ fever, a headache and conjunctivitis. Yesterday I spent more than 11 hours in the health center just lying around feeling miserable.
Needless to say I didn’t race today, but the team stepped it up. The number 2 and 3 guys on our team were 3rd and 4th consecutively, resulting in the first Holderness win at a full 10-team Lakes-Region meet this year.
If I am well tomorrow, I may rollerski, but it’s doubtful right now because I still have a bad sore throat.
I’m going to bed to try and sleep it off.
Ian
