yesterday i woke up with a sore throat and runny nose. by the afternoon i felt terrible. i was at school trying to watch some videos for school, but i was all achy and shaky and all i could think about was how i wanted to get home. so i somehow managed to stumble home. i had a low-grade fever, my heart rate was up and i was very sweaty. i took a 2 hour nap, but spent most of the times tossing and turning, trying to warm up my freezing cold, very achy limbs.
last night i slept 12 hours and i'm still tired. i skipped my first class, but i made myself come to skills lab, since it's getting close to the end and i really need to be learning this stuff.
it's weird. on my trek home yesterday, all i could think about was, "i wanna be at home. i wanna be at home." but then i realized how pathetic i am. i know a few people who are really suffering right now with different illnesses. and i'm complaining that i feel achy?? i thanked God on the way home. i thanked him that i can walk, that i can see, that i can go to school and learn and think, that i can breath on my own, that i can hear, that i'm not in excruciating pain, that i can make my own decisions, that i can talk, i can read. that i'm alive. that, really, i'm quite a healthy person. nothing makes you more thankful for your health than when you lose it, even if this is just a little virus.
so... thank you God.
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
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Wow, you are much less of a whimp than me. I need to remember to thank God for my health as well. I'm still blaming my wisdom teeth on me being tired and grumpy (yes, that was over a week ago already). Did you end up going to clinical this week? I didn't receive any phone calls, so I'm assuming you are a surgical nurse pro now (and that wouldn't surprise me in the least)!
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