A couple of days before we left for Portland I was feeling tired and achy and generally run down. It was so bad that on Friday my boss remarked that I sounded tired and lethargic. Saturday morning I woke up with a sore throat, but I wasn't going to let something like that ruin our weekend in Portland. Throughout the day I was a bit tired, and strangely I had really chapped lips. Like, a sudden onslaught of chap. No amount of rose salve would help. Sunday I woke up feeling like crap. Super sore throat, stuffed up nose, burning eyes (a sure-fire sign for me of impending fever), and a slight cough. Then we went gallivanting through the forest in the rain and hail which I'm sure didn't help matters. We got back to the hotel and I took a long nap before dinner. I woke up Monday and was
exhausted. I went to work and managed to make it through the day just fine. That night in my hotel room my lips started tingling, and I was so tired. So tired, in fact, that I fell asleep without my anxiety medication and slept through the night. I woke up and there it was - the flesh eating virus.
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I could barely form sentences correctly my lips were so swollen and disgusting. I felt like
Taylor Armstrong.
By the time I got home Tuesday evening I was running a fever and was just generally sick. Wednesday I worked from bed because I felt awful. Yesterday and today I'm working from the couch, hopped up on medicine. I need to go make some tea but the thought of moving is more than I have in me right now. And those lips? Yeah, they're HIDEOUS. Seriously, seriously hideous. And oh so painful.
I'm worried that I might be Patient Zero in the oncoming Zombie Apocalypse.
And now y'all have seen me at my absolute worst. Don't ever let it be said that I'm not real on this blog. Or that I lack transparency.
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Oh you poor thing! The same thing happened to my co-worker last week. Just awful. Thankfully her lips healed up fast and she's on the mend. Hope the same for you.
ReplyDeleteI've been afflicted with this my whole life. I actually missed two weeks of kindergarten because the principle wouldn't let me come back until the sores were completely healed. Back in 1999 we went to New York for a friend's wedding. I got so sunburned that when I woke up two days later my lips were even worse than they are above. That time they were so swollen that there was bruising around them. I had to go to my first day at my internship and the girl who picked me up was aghast - she thought that Alan must have beat me. It was so embarrassing. It's truly quite frightening and very unwelcome. It usually takes me about two weeks to heal completely, which is about 1 week and 6 days too long in my book.
ReplyDeleteThat does not sound fun at all. I wish you health.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much!
ReplyDeleteThe upside is that it gets me out of having to hang out with family this weekend. Silver lining, and all that. :-)
Oh Becky, I can honestly say I know how you feel. It can be a side effect of the chemo. So painful and miserable. My doctor wrote a prescription for me called magic swizzle/Ben/Lid/ MAA AA. It helps alot, but nothing works better than time. Can't wait till you feel etter.
ReplyDeleteIt's terrible that one of us has to deal with this, let alone both of us. At least Jenny reports being healthy!
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