It’s 8:00 pm and I’ve been up since 4:00 am because when I cough it hurts. Now I can breath and it doesn’t hurt to breath, but boy does it hurt to cough. I was planning to get the H1N1 vaccine as soon as it became available to the general, but obviously the virus beat the Ministry of Health’s very, very late vaccine to me. It hasn’t been to bad, kind of the run of the mill flu, the only difference before today was I was extremely tired. Always exhausted. I’ve barely had a fever and in the three days I’ve noticed it three times. Yesterday morning I felt better and the boom! My lymphnodes started to hurt and swell up. I could feel them in my underarms even. A few hours later a very dry cough developed and by that evening it hurt to cough in my chest and between my shoulder blades. Some friends suffering along with me have been sick as long as two weeks. One friend has damaged her vocal cords due to constant coughing. All these women caught the virus from their children who had much milder symptoms than their mothers.
Right now do I ever wish I got the vaccine. Cough, cough…ouch, ouch!!
