Well, I'm truly getting sick of this being sick shit.
It cramps my style. I should be in working and saving lives but no, I have to loll around here, using up a box of tissues a day... I'm not able to concentrate well enough to actually accomplish anything. Just a big waste of time.
As is trying to sleep. Nightmares... I always have the same nightmares when I'm running a fever, ever since I was a kid. The first time that I remember was when I was a kid down in Enid, I was seven or eight... had an earache, and mom sat up with me all night. Then, the nightmare terrified me... large balloon-like objects rolling over me, I couldn't run, I couldn't hide, all I could do was scream and dammit, I couldn't even do that!
Now, of course, they're merely amusing. They are still sleep-disturbing, though.
The symptoms of my fever seem to have dissipated, although it's still over 100F, but I'm not having the chills like I was yesterday. In general, if I just sit rather still, I'm OK. Moving presents it's problems. It is such an effort to move, or to even remain upright. The fight against gravity seems to have an obscure meaning, and I'm not really sure that it's worthwhile.
I'm planning on going back to work tomorrow, no matter how I feel. Well, scratch that... I see how I feel tomorrow. I really can't afford the time off, though. I've missed the two premium nights (we get an extra 10% for working the weekends) and the next three nights are twelve-hour ones.
Karen is fixing supper, and it smells really good. I've been going the soup and cheese sandwich route, and she's fixing a pork tenderloin with all of the fixings... I hope that I'll be able to eat it. My appetite has not been all that good lately.
I did get a chance to see parts of the eclipse Thursday night. I ran out to smoke when totality was achieved, and the red moon was beautiful... a little while later I peeked out of the ambulance bay just as the sun hit it again.
Celestial events such as that are truly awesome... imagine being someone who was ignorant of the facts... you would be putty in the hands of unscrupulous people such as priests and shamen...
No, I don't think that I'll do my anti-religion rant tonight, that would take too much energy. Hate to disappoint, though. Some other time.
More tomorrow...