house arrest
I have been on house arrest by the Health Department of Andie’s Ecosystem for two days now. Caught a bug last Tuesday or Wednesday. Had my throat itching like crazy last Thursday. Had a few people say I was either acting weird, was hot (would have preferred “looked hot,” though, haha) or warm to the touch, or didn’t look too well last Friday. By then, I was throwing a couple of throaty and phlegm-ish fireworks once in a while. Came home breathless, and had to wake a gazillion times during my sleep due to the same reason. Woke up at 6-going-7 on Saturday, again, breathless. Took me an hour to get properly propped up in bed, took another 2 hours before I could get myself out of bed. Texted Menchie I wouldn’t be able to come for our 9-12 class, which, luckily, our teacher didn’t show up for (why am I not surprised?). Took another 2 hours before I could muster the energy (and enough air) to go downstairs. Ate breakfast (took me an hour to swallow five spoonfuls of rice. Think “swallow food then catch breath for 10 minutes” over and over again.), then settled down on the couch. Spent the entire day on the couch by the way, trying to find the best position that was relaxing but didn’t render me breathless. Took some medicine (corticosteroids, if you must know), and found myself almost vomiting almost a dozen of times, while trying to produce some cough as if they were to be sold at a hundred bucks per mL (but what it was simply doing was give me 3 minutes of oh-so-heavenly-and-undisturbed breathing.). Thought I’d be feeling better by night, which might enable me to join the Editorial Seminar at school, but boy, was I wrong. Found the perfect position, by the way, on the floor, while having my head and back propped up on an arm of the couch. Didn’t eat lunch, seeing as how agonizing breakfast was. Was ravenous by 6 pm, and ate a cupful or rice with some tuna hotdog and some bread rolls. All in all, I had 60 mg of Prednisone (a corticosteroid, the usual culprit for most of my weight gain), 10 mg of Montelukast (an anti-asthma medication), and 30 mg of Ambroxol (mucolytic). Thought I’d have gained weight by night due to the Prednisone, but managed to lose instead. Cool.
(Took a break)
Just took a quick shower. Didn’t bathe yesterday (gross, I know) due to fear of drowning. I have had this experience before where I had an equally bad asthma attack and yet stubbornly took a bath. Guess who came out of the bathroom crawling like Sadako? Anyway, I didn’t bathe due to fear of drowning and because I had but few ammos left on my inhaler and was not about to waste them on a near-drowning incident.
I’m feeling much better today but I could not walk for longer than five minutes at a time. So I was left home to, well, rest. But they’re home now, and I guess this post is enough for today.
I’m having these insane stomach aches right now, and I’m wondering if either my kidneys are failing or I’m having ulcer, both due to my meds. Hmmm…