So, I wasn't feeling very good Friday night when I was getting ready for work; usually I can shake these things off. I took a hot shower, pumped up with vitamins, got my caffeine, and headed off to work in a daze. My foreman could see that I wasn't feeling very well so he had me work on my project from the week (we are adding emergency stops to the crossovers on Mainline Belt 1 of the conveyance system for United). I shut the system down and started working on the circuit and my health continued to deteriorate and at one point I passed out for a few minutes. It was all I could do to get the circuit back together and get the system back on by 0300 (so that I could test before 0400 startup). I got it back together in time (I caught myself in an error before I made it) and it tested fine the first time. After all this I had to run back to parts room and grab a 400hz tester to go checkout why the E/F interlock wasn't working on the 400hz service (the aircraft ground power when the aircraft isn't running). While there, I had to pass out again for 20-30 minutes before heading over to the loading bridge.
At this point my clarity of thought was fast fading and I was a little unstable on the ladder. I finally called my foreman and told him I had to go home sick. After putting everything away and staggering back to my car, I passed out again for about half an hour and then finally drove home and I only nodded off twice--thank God for His protection.
I remained in a shivering fever from that Saturday morning when I arrived home until Sunday afternoon when I had recovered enough to make it to a meal and evening Service (I still had a fever but kept it under control by means of legal analgesics). I slept all Sunday night until late this morning and now my only issue is a knotted up gut and a twinging back. I'll probably call in sick tonight.
This was the weirdest flu, because at the time of the fever, there was no accompanying nausea or congestion just a straight gnarley fever. I felt as if I were in suspended animation or something. It was bad and I could hear myself groaning.
Bizarre.
I had to be sick, because I missed my beloved Literary Group Meeting.
Anyway, glad to be back to the life of the normal undead.
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