7 Days of Flu and Other News
Winter officially arrived in Bangalore some time last week and I got hint of it when I woke up with a throat that felt like it had been sandpapered through the night in preparation for having a coat of thick tar layered over it the next day. It hurt so bad, my fingers kept trying to soothe the pain from outside to little avail.
Now, usually I get so crabby when I have the flu that I can’t see, smell, taste or think straight. This time though, I wanted to document the progression of symptoms from day one to day seven, by when I would hopefully have fully recovered, so I tried keeping track of it in spite of my irritation.
This is what my brain remembers from the ordeal:
Day One: The throat is the first to go down in the attack. I woke up with a sore throat and went to bed in the same intensity of pain.
Day Two: The throat continues to hurt and somewhere in my nasal cavity the plumbing has sprung a leak. With a dripping nose and watery eyes, my hanky saw its busiest day of the year.
Day Three: Pain in the throat starts subsiding and nose drips less but headaches have been activated. I slept as much as I could. By night, scattered incidents of coughing have been noted too.
Day Four: Pain in the throat is considerably less, phlegm from the nose is thicker and I seem to have control over its release from the nostrils. What I couldn’t control were the intermittent headaches and increasing bouts of coughing. I spent most of the day in bed.
Day Five: The coughing has worsened, though my throat seems to be on the verge of recovery. I didn’t have to blow my nose as much which was a relief (for my handkerchief too)! I felt well enough to go to the airport with my brother to drop my dad off and then treat myself to a burger at the new KFC in Basaveshwaranagar (which, by the way, has some really cool furniture and is a lot better laid out then its counterparts in Indiranagar and on Brigade Road). The dry coughing fit I had later that night was another story though.
Day Six: Can’t feel any pain in the throat, phlegm production in the nose is mirroring the economic recession worldwide, the body isn’t aching and the cough is more manageable. I slept through most hours of day light.
Day Seven (today): The pain in my throat is mysteriously back but my cough and cold are very close to saying good bye. If I feel perfectly fine when I wake up tomorrow, my theory that a flu will come and go within a week whether you visit a doctor or not will be justified. Then I can start telling people to wait it out instead of spreading paranoia and wasting money on medication.
In other news, my post on Fuzzco came to the attention of Fuzzco’s founder Josh Nissenboim encouraging him to have those annoying hover sound effects on the navigation menu removed. So he did and you can now enjoy Fuzzco.com with no sounds at all. That’s the power of the written word (that is published for the world to see)! So if you’ve been considering starting a blog or being more regular with your posts on one, do it! Just don’t go crazy with ‘influentia’.
In still more other news, I have another interesting 6KQ interview lined up for you on Tuesday, November 10, 2009; this time featuring Nishita Kavadia, an interaction designer based in Mumbai, India. So be sure to check it out then.