10 Hours?!?

So, I don't want to jump to any conclusions yet, but as I lie here in bed typing away on my iPhone, I'm starting to think I may have gotten over the flu in 10 hours! The pain and stiffness in my neck, legs and torso are gone, and it seems I've only go leftover DOMS in my back and biceps from my workout. My stomach isn't tight and empty anymore, and I don't feel nauseous at all.. My throat doesn't even hurt anymore, it just feels a little stuffy, but I haven't coughed at all yet. But that's all I have left. We'll see if I've really beaten this thing after breakfast.

The Battle Plan

Coming to grips with this whole flu thing isn't too bad, now that I think about it.

One, if I was to ever get the flu, this week might just have been the best week. I just finished my midterms hell week the past Thursday, and even though I'll lose some progress by staying in bed the next few days, at least this didn't happen at a less forgiving time, say, my next hell week, or Dead Week.

Two, I've been wanting to go to this epic Paul Van Dyk concert tomorrow night. Before, the only thing holding me back was my finances, and it wasn't doing a good job. Hopefully, if I wake up tomorrow morning completely destroyed, I'll have a good reason not to go.

I guess I was also getting tired of human contact anyway.

Seriously though, I'm not expecting a lot out of the next few days. Last year, I got over the flu in 36 hours. But those 36 hours were drawn out like a bad movie. I spent 32 of those hours in bed. I couldn't eat or drink, or even move. (This was also the first time I had the flu)

I just hope I don't lose a lot of weight like some of those crazy stories I've heard. I don't have much weight to lose.

Hopefully, if you're reading this right now and you're not an idiot, you'll go and get your damn flu shot right now. But if you're already in "PWND" mode, here's some super-dee-duper advice that I've gathered from across the Intarwebz:

-Just get rest. Resistance is futile.
-Vitamin C and water are your best friends. If you must eat, grab some fruit. Apparently, these help in the "detoxification" process.
-The vitamin C in food is actually significantly healthier for you than it is in pill form.
-I did not know this before, but the starving feeling you get when you can't eat anything (fasting, I guess) actually helps get the icky gooey meanie bully flu viruses out of your body faster. Fasting is a detox process. Who knew?
-Nyquil/Tylenol/Whatever resembles meds helps.
-Dairy is a big no-no.
-Caffeine reduces the body's ability to absorb vitamins. I did not know this either. It also dehydrates you much faster.
-Antibiotics are last resort only. They will weaken your immune system. They don't really work anyway.

Now that I think about it, it WOULD be my luck that I get the flu on the day I decide to start my daily workout routine. Awesome.

Someone please call the fire department, my foot's stuck in my mouth again.

I've been putting off updating this blog for the longest time. I don't really know why. All I can really say is, I never would have guessed the reason why I came back.

It started when my roommate Pawan started sniffling last Thursday. He was talking like someone had put a clothespin over his nose. Me being the asshole that I am, I thought it was fantastically hilarious at the time.

Too bad I forgot Karma is a two-headed bitch. If it had a best friend, its name would be Irony.

I guess the red flags really started popping up when he coughed a couple of times before he left for Houston on Saturday morning. How was I to know though? Dude smokes a pack and a half a day, what else am I supposed to think when he coughs?

At least emphysema isn't contagious.

Actually, I haven't been entirely honest. My roommate doesn't actually smoke a pack and a half a day. He smokes two. He doesn't smoke at all. Anybody who knows Pawan would be shocked if this was true.

Anyway, so shit really started to smell when I came back after the UT-OSU game. My throat felt really, really, sore. I overlooked it, since I yell so much at games that it's a given anyway.

But then it kept hurting the next morning. And when I went to sleep that night.

The next morning I was coughing. Not like, dry heave coughing, or that annoying raspy old man coughing, but like, little girl coughing. WTF?!? I never do that.

Then my friend Tiffany treated me to lunch at Kinsolving. Normally, I go crazy over Kin's All Ving, since they're the only legit on-campus place to eat, and I usually finish several plates' worth of food. I didn't even get seconds. My rosemary chicken thigh was thrown away, sad and half-eaten. I was racking up clues like Sherlock Holmes, but I hoped I was wrong, just this once.

By the time the periodic nausea set in tonight, it was too late. The all-over soreness, which I thought was just DOMS from a brutal back-and-bi workout the day before, became actual pain and stiffness. My stomach seized up after I tried taking my usual dose of creatine. I got nauseous at the sheer thought of even mixing a protein shake.

It can only mean one thing.

I think I might have the flu.