The swine flu

I had a blood test run on friday by my work as I have been sick for several weeks. It came back positive for swine flu. It honestly isn't that bad. I didn't even know what it was for the longest time. I have had some killer nausea but only puked a few times early on. The diarrhea has been intermittent though pretty bad. My poo has been green whether solid or not. The common body aches are annoying but not that horrible. Runny nose and a mildly sore throat. I think the cough is from the runny nose. Really the only truly bad symtoms are the headaches and the going from hot to cold quickly and without warning. The headache is almost constant, low on the forehead, between my eyes and at times my actual eyeballs ache. Tylenol helps sometimes but not all the time, and never for more than 4 hours. If its more than 68 degrees I am sweating and bad. It stinks so much worse than usual. Then 5 minutes later I will be cozy under my covers and shivering so hard it shakes the bed.

When I put it all down like this it sounds so much worse than it is. It is not fun but it's also not really all that bad. I'm going on three weeks out of work since I work for an OB/GYN office and I absolutly cannot work when there are patients as pregnant women are at such risk. I go in for a few hours Friday afternoon since we close at noon and there are almost no people there. It's a good thing the swine flu memo went out when it did or I might have gone to work with this. But I have had a fever over 100 since day 1 and that was one of the "don't even think about coming to work" symptoms. So hopefully I will be back to work soon but I have to be extremely careful since about half of our patients are pregnant and we really don't want them getting even the mild swine flu that I have since it would endanger their babies.

I thought this would be a short post but it ended up longer than I thought it would. I really am getting good at long posts.