Virus...Viruses everywhere!

Tue 300310

Yup, viruses are everywhere! No escape! And yup, somehow viruses had invaded one of these 2 ole inmates of Lot 10 OFH...

Since last Tues, my other half had been down with God knows what...our family doc told us at that time that it was a viral infection. Coughing & coughing. More so & worse at night. However, there was no fever.

We had to postpone COD for last Sat to Sunday. Had meals out as usual because we had been taking porridge since Tuesday...but simpler dishes. Cine Nite was the movie "Twilight - New Moon", the sequel to "Twilight", a movie about love between a human & a vampire! This time around, it brought it werewolves. Slow moving but full of emotions...under extraordinary circumstances, too!

The shocker came early this morning! My other half already appeared so much better last night. Hardly any coughs. But...at about 5am this morning, she awoke shivering....felt cold! The air-con was already set at 28 deg C...no actual cooling! And yet she felt cold! A sign of fever!

Took her temperature with our digital ear thermometer. 38.9 deg C! Even the thermometer beeped & beeped! A confirmation that there was fever! Gave her some warm milk & 2 tabs of Uphamol...for the fever. A cup of water was taken hourly. Even "sponged" her...useful to lower one's body temperature.

The body temperature dropped ever so slowly....but steadily...from 38.9 to 38.8. Then it was 38.5. Looked encouraging. It was only by 9am that she was at normal body temperature again! 36.9. Finally. Phew! A long morning. Really, really long morning.

So far so good. At time of this post. Hopefully it's only a temporary scare. Keeping fingers crossed.