Been staying home for the past couple of days. Fever hit 40.3 on Monday. I was so scared... I had just awoken and I felt like my whole body was on fire, my muscles were aching and my knees felt numb. I still groggily went to the kitchen to resume eating my two-third remaining bean curd from the morning before taking my medicine. Then i went back to lie in bed. And I was thinking to myself like shit, could the fever melt my brain and my internal organs.

I remembered I read/ heard somewhere there was a soon-to-be bride who wanted a nice tan on her big day, so she went to the tanning salon but was only allowed to tan once. So she went to many different tanning salons and she died because her internal organs stopped functioning. Apparently, she had "baked" her organs while she did her many "fake" tans.

When I thought of this, I shivered and I can imagine my brain melting and oozing out of my ears and my other internal organs melting as well. That really scared the shit out of me. I remembered laogong told me that he would take a cold bath when he is having a fever. So I went to the bathroom and had my first friggin cold shower. I could feel the heat draining away from me. I had a quick shower and went back to test my temperature. 37.8. I felt safer and went on to finish my one-third remaining bean curd from earlier on. But my temperature continued to climb until it hit 39.0. I took my 2nd cold shower but my temperature just kept rebounding.

I kept bombarding laogong with sms all this while, telling him my temperature like I was reporting the stock exchange. I was really scared and I needed advice. Laogong sneaked out from camp and came to my place at 4plus. He sponged me twice and forced me to take another cold shower before whisking me off to the clinic to get a jab and a prescription of antibiotics. Dinner was just a few mouthful of fishball noodles before my body threatened to throw up if I force any more food down.

I almost fainted when we were on our way home. I really hate the feeling when everything you see is white and you could barely hear anything or feel yourself walking... And it didn't feel any better when laogong tried to piggyback me. I really had no strength to cling onto him. So I ran off to the nearest couch to rest. Took me awhile before the feeling went away and I could walk properly again.

I really want to thank my laogong for taking care of me and accompanying me through all this when I was throwing tantrums and embarrassing him. I remembered glaring at him when he forced me to a cold shower. And all the people staring at us when I was acting like a kid, refusing to eat my food and squatting on the ground when I was feeling giddy. I saw people staring, but he just kept by my side until I felt better. Laogong, if you're reading this, I want to say a big THANK YOU for being there and taking care of me. Muackz!

There's still plenty to be said but I'm running out of time. It's bedtime and I should get to bed if I want to recover fast. I wonder why I took so friggin long to fight this battle...