Ill

Hint. If these are your symptoms...

-dizzy and lightheaded

-vomiting any and everything

-headache

-head tilted to side from crazy neck pain

-entire body shaking (not from high fever)

-blurry vision, unable to focus eyes

-can't read (not exclusively related to vision problems)

-mood swings

-can't speak coherently (brain forms sentences that the mouth can't say)

-scared of the computer (yes. scared)

...you should go to the hospital.

To explain, I was away this weekend and got quite sick. I thought it was food poisoning followed by dehydration. Looking at the symptoms it looks more like someone tried to kill me. Spiked my diet coke? Who knows. I was talking to my mother about it, about not knowing what to do (dilemma between "I don't want to be a hypochondriac" and "I want to be proactive if there is treatment that could fix this efficiently") and her wise words were that when this was all over I would look back at this and know exactly what I should have done. What I should have done was go to the hospital. Now, I didn't know that at the time, I was too busy crying hysterically that the computer screen was trying to kill me. But I thought I would share my wisdom with everyone.

I realize I have not written in about a month. I'm a blog loser and will do better in the future. Let me get through this week of classes and then I'll get back on top of things and give a nice big Amsterdam update :)

Shout out to Josh Fixler and his Polar Bear Plunge efforts. Check this out, it is funny and for a good cause:

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=874206830398&ref=mf

http://www.kintera.org/faf/donorReg/donorPledge.asp?ievent=320464&lis=1&kntae320464=1B3CB489C9004814A0E46AD399046327&supId=16215466

Anyone getting any ideas for the next Relay for Life??

Second shout out to Ian, who took care of me. Who bought me popsicles and pedialyte, sat with me while I described the color of my urine to NHS nurses, didn't take it personally when I acted like a (feverish) petulant toddler when he tried to get me to drink something, changed around the words of songs to sing to me while I lay curled up in the fetal position with my teddy bear shaking rather violently, and who hid the monitor of the computer away from me when I was sobbing about how scary it was. Yes, after all that he is still dating me.