D.5G.5 – Piglet flu

A couple of years ago, about this time, my daughter got this strange, unnamed, mono-behaving virus. We named it ourselves because what good is an illness without a cool name to go along with it? Hers? Euphonium Fever. It kept her out of commission for about a month, behaved, smelled and tasted just like mono, but every blood test she took came back negative. All I know is she was one sick puppy.

I’m not so sick. Thank heavens. But, something has smacked me upside the head. It started last night at my parent’s house masquerading as a potential stomach bug. After a little time and a long, anxiety-filled conversation with my mom, I felt better, got myself home and by the time I fell into bed, I felt normal. I marked it off as an obscure anxiety attack and let it go.

It didn’t let me go, though, grabbing onto the back of my head in the middle of the night and not letting go until later this afternoon. I first thought yet another migraine was going to ruin my day, but as the morning moved to afternoon, I could tell this was no ordinary migraine. Or headache. And I felt like pooh.

Now, it’s only hours later, and I’m almost okay-ish again? I had a fever of about 101 earlier, it’s down to 100 now. The headache is gone, my achiness is minimal, I’ve been eating okay all day and…what the hell WAS that!? I mean, I’m not ready to run a marathon yet (that would take more than healing of a common virus anyway), but really?

I dunno. All I know is, this little piglet better not mature into a full fledged swine or I’m gonna be really cranky.

And a cranky Heidi is worse than a sick Heidi, believe me. There ARE no names for my crankiness.