Just a quick update. As you might have known I've been feeling a bit sick recently - faint, tired etc etc ad nauseum. On Tuesday it actually began to turn into something - I was shopping by myself in the city and started to feel a bit faint again, so I quickly found a cafe and sat down with an orange juice for a while. After taking the UBahn home again (a wee bit nervous, me + feeling faint + alone on the UBahn has already had some interesting consequences) I collapsed on the couch and noticed a few weird red spots on my arms. I brushed it off and went to bed.
The next day I wasn't planning on going into school anyway, I was going to go to the zoo, so after I woke up and went to the bathroom I went back to bed to stalk the internet for a little bit. I gradually started to realise that I felt really really awful - faint, dizzy, killer headache, stiff neck and shoulders, and those pesky red spots had spread into a rash down my arms and, most attractively, on my face. I felt incredibly weak, but even if I managed to get myself into a sitting or standing position, my head would spin and my vision would go, as if I was about to faint. I realised no one from the family was home, but I talked with my host father briefly on the phone and he said to call if it got any worse. I think all I said was that I felt sick.
So until Johnny got home at about 2.30, I spent the day sleeping, watching old TV series on my laptop with my eyes closed, talking to Mum and generally feeling pretty darned horrendous. At one point I decided it was vitally important for me to get water, to take Panadol with if nothing else, so with a lot of care I made it to the bathroom (the room next to me)... and ended up having to lie on the floor for a minute or so. There was absolutely no way I was going to be able to get downstairs to get food, so instead I ate some of the Ferrero Rochers in my room and that's about it.
When Johnny did arrive and come upstairs, I promptly burst into tears. I can only imagine how he felt - weird New Zealand teenager in his spare room, in her pyjamas, rash on her face and weeping because she couldn't manage to sit up. Anyway, after that there was a bit of a blur of food and medicine and thermometers (I was about 38.5 at 4pm, no idea what I would have been in the morning) and phone calls and explanations about how all the doctors are closed on Wednesday afternoons but a trip to an emergency clinic would result in a three hour wait. But he called the mother of one of Lea's friends, who's a paediatrician, who didn't have time that afternoon but could come round late if necessary or the next morning. I was told off by my host parents for not ringing sooner - I don't really know what was going through my head, just not really wanting to make a fuss I guess.
Anyway yesterday I woke up with an incredibly stiff and sore upper body, I assume from lying in bed the entire day before, but I was feeling a bit better, even managing to get down the stairs by myself a few hours after I woke up. The lovely doctor came and checked a few different things, deciding that I had a form of the virus that has been spreading around Munich for the last couple of weeks. It's true that everyone has been sick recently - Lea's class is routinely only about 3/4 full. So it was very good to know that that's all it was.
Today I'm still feeling a bit wobbly - headachy if I bend down etc. Apparently there's a tonne of fluid in my head, which they're a bit worried about for the flights home with my ears, but I've got a couple of medications and sprays to sort that out by next week, hopefully. My rash is fading but still there, a little less itchy than yesterday though which is nice. But I'm definitely on the mend :)
So yeah, those have been the events of the last few days. Fingers crossed that was the culmination of my slight off-ness of the last few weeks.
Can't believe it's less than a week until I leave, and almost a week until I get home. Definitely going to be going for the waterproof mascara this week. :)
Liebe Grüße, und ich hoffe, dass alles mit euch echt gut geht.
Camille xx
PS I just took this as I'm lying in bed, welcome to Day 3 of Face Rash:
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| You can't really see much, but I can assure you it's there. |
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