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How messed up can my winter holidays get this 2005? Ahh, let’s go over where it went wrong =)

On the 18th, my parents arrived in the afternoon promptly. The next 4 days went by without a lot of problem, then on the morning of the 22nd, I went to talk to Dr P and vK about my research. Something happened then, and that very afternoon, I started feeling sick! My parents blame the fact that I spent the night before, mowing and cleaning up the grass, but … mmm, I dunno.

On the 23rd/24th, my sickness got worse and worse, and lesions start to appear in the back of my throat on the tonsils. They broke apart wider and wider, and one even got on top of the uvula. Eventually, my entire throat was broken open with open wounds, and it’s like salting wounds whenever I tried to eat any kind of food. So for most lunches & dinners, I had white soupy rice (congee). The Christmas Eve, I was supposed to go visit my cousin Robert, but my mother refused to go due to my sickness. It’s just as well, had a slight fever, and the throat inhibited me from eating anything.

On the 25th, my parents and I were forced to aunt’s place for Christmas lunch. Of course, all the food looked appetizing, but I couldn’t eat much of anything at all. Everything hurts my throat like mad, and it’s just.. ugh.

Imagine this, you bit the inside of your mouth, and it bled for a bit. Then, it turned into this white/yellowish sore that hurts whenever anything passes by it. If it’s in a rough spot, you would get something like Orajel to numb the pain before you eat anything. After a few days, it heals, and everything is peachy again! That’s one single open wound in your mouth, and you could numb it. For me, during the Christmas days, I counted at least 6 of these wounds on the right side of my throat (tonsil), 3 on the left side (tonsil), and 1 on the uvula. Yup, it hurts so much, that I learned to repress my gag reflex in order to stick a cotton swab with Orajel to the back of my throat.

During those days, everything went by like a blur. It hurts so much, that the only reprieve I had was sleep.

I can’t remember exactly when it stopped hurting – I would suppose on the morning of the 28th, the mad demon stabbing at my throat just got tired of jerking his knife. However, during the tour of the Patrick Air Force Base, I had the misfortune of riding with another sick person who got another strain of common cold virus on her. I mean, she is a sweet girl, but – us two sick people together was just not a good idea. I believe she passed her cold virus onto me, and on the very day of return on the 29th, I start to feel the symptom of common cold.

On the morning of the 30th, I woke up to a cough, and a stuffy nose. Blowing my nose got me a full load of yellow/brown snot on the tissue paper. I gotta admit, it’s a lot of fun to fold up the tissue paper, and squeeze the folded tissue paper back and forth =) With the slight temperature, and persistent cough, my parents are becoming more and more frantic. Am I dying?!

Well, I don’t think so. I’m still in bed as of now – I watch a lot of anime, and I sleep an incredible amount. I wake up late, I take naps, and I sleep early. I drink so much water that I piss every 2 hour. I’m taking Vitamin C, protein supplement, Nyquil, Robitussin, this crazy brown mixture, and amoxillin. Bro says I’m babying myself too much – and that’s why I’m not getting better already… he could be right.

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