More ill than Lil Wayne...no seriously

For those of you who was wondering, "Where is Jun?" "What happened to him?" "Is he all right?" "Where did he go?" "I hope he's ok." (not like anyone cared at first (dont worry I was being sarcastic right there)) I have been sick since Monday night.

I think it all started on Sunday, when I went to go on a 4 mile run in the morning. Dont get me wrong, I felt great after the run because I stuffed myself during Thanksgiving. Then I went to my teammate and friends house to go pick up some pie they said they had for me to take home. I ended up hanging out there for about three hours or so and I started to feel a little fever coming out of no where. I thought maybe the sudden temperature change for being outside to being inside might had to do with something, or maybe it was the lack of sleep i got during break. Either way, I wasn't feeling well. I decided to go back to my apartment and take a nap before we had study tables as a team a couple of hour later. I wasn't feelling all that well but I was good enough to function and move around.

Monday came along and I was not feeling well at all. I went to all my classes, struggling of course, and also went to study tables and work out we had. After the day was over, I felt like a train ran over me. I had no energy left in my body. The last thing I did before I fell asleep was buying my mom flowers.

For the next three days, I laid on my bed with a migraine, sore throat and coughing my lungs out. My body was sore and couldn't get out of my bed at all. I thought I was literally dying.

I thought it was just a cold or something that would only last for about a day.

So yesterday, (Wednesday Nov 29) I finally decided to go to the doctors because the nurse at Mount Mercy is never there. This was the first time I been to a the doctors for any kind of check up since high school. I really never had insurance so I sucked it up every time and hoped the illness would go away.

As I sat in the waiting room for about 5 minutes waiting for the doctor to arrive, I was thinking how could I possibly have gotten this? and why me?

After I told the doctor what was wrong with me and he checked up on me, he told me that i had a really bad ear infection, a sinus infection and a bad strep throat.

I thought, "Great, I rather be dead at the moment."

The doctor prescribed me to an antibiotic and I was on my way to pick that up. Then off to bed again.

After I took my first antibiotic, azithromycin: five pills i have to take within five days and ill make me feel good as new (as the doctor said) , I was feeling much better than I was before already. Then for some reason, I got this sudden craving of a Big Mac and a 20 piece chicken nugget (Don't kill me Logan!) and so I asked my roommate if he can pick me up some at McDonalds, which he did. After he came back, I dont think I took one breath eating it (Note that I havent eaten anything for the past three days when I was dying in bed).

Then today, I woke up with some what of a drunk feeling. That feeling when you stand up, you stumble a little bit, i dont know why. Maybe because I have been overdosing on vitamin C. I slept in until about 3:00 p.m. Midwest time and took my second antibiotic and am feeling much better.

In the beginning of being sick, I lost my voice and didn't have energy to do anything, even walk. Now I can move around just fine and got my voice back, not to my professional shower singing level but close.

During this time, I really started to appreciate the use of YouTube. Best way to kill time.

Not just that, but also my friends that worried about me and sent me a text to see how I was doing.

Also today, two friends, Shelly and Mary, came to my apartment and surprised me a brought a little "get-well" snack for me.

I only talked to a few people from Monday night til today and I really appreciate the people who have done things for me from driving me to the doctors, sending me teddy bear and chocolate vibes, buying me food, bringing me surprise gifts to just a simple text saying "Are you alive?"

Doctor said I wouldn't be able to do any type of work outs or anything until Tuesday so hopefully I can fully be recovered by then.

When next week hits, its crunch time. 2 weeks left of school. Finals, which leads to more stress...hopefully I don't catch another one of these again.

-Jun

Special shout out to Jenny Valliere to taking me to the doctors! Couldn't thank her enough!