Fever
I know that y'all have been deeply troubled by my lack of recent posts. I understand. I've been suffering a real crisis of my own inasmuch as I've had the virus that just won't go away for two weeks now. Yesterday I went to the doctor and while he was getting ready to take my temperature I felt it prudent to explain that my baseline temperature is nowhere near normal. Ever. 98.6? Pshaw. I'm lucky if I get above 97 degrees. It's just the way I am. I run cold people. Ice cold.
So he put that electronic temperature gadget under my tongue and said, "You're not registering at all," and I would have said (if I hadn't had something under my tongue) that I told him I had temperature issues and that my blood might be part reptilian (but cute reptilian like a wee lizard and not like a big snake). But then the gadget beeped and he showed me the display and it read 99.2! Oh.My.God. That's like 104 for normal people. I got a little worried. I started to consider all the afflictions I might have and then I realized that I'd been watching too much "House." That in itself might be an affliction. But I doubt it causes fever. Even though Hugh Laurie is rowr and all.
Paging, Dr. House. Patient is presenting with fever, sore throat, sinus pain, excessive snot and...a wee bit of mental confusion. Or maybe that's laziness. Not sure. Anyway, request a consult STAT.
My doctor tested me for strep but it's probably not strep because my throat feels better. And it's never strep. Oh, except for the first day of college when I had to stop at my pediatrician's office and he told me I had strep throat and my parents had to stop at the pharmacy and get me meds before dropping me off at college. True story.
Ahem. So I'll let you know if the fever spikes and I start hallucinating. I actually did that once when I was very young. I hallucinated toys floating outside my bedroom window. I wanted to reach out and touch them and my sister and mother had to restrain me because my room was on the second floor and that would have been quite a drop for someone three feet tall.
Still waiting for that consult...