Ooh, a fever. This is new.
Well, new in the sense that I haven’t recorded one in at least the last four years. I suppose it was Wednesday that I realized that breathing cold air was unpleasant, and by Thursday morning I had a terrible cough. I thought perhaps I should skip my boring ConWest recitation to sleep in the 8th floor lounge at the Kimmel Center, but I ended up just taking a brief nap there before class. I did skip karate last night though. That was more of a matter of not wanting to have to carry my knee brace home. I didn’t know then that I was actually sick.
So I got to come home early (arriving in Trenton at 9pm instead of 12am), and I stayed up till maybe 1am playing Sims 2. When I went to bed I felt very achy, and I thought to myself, I’m going to wake up with a fever. Lo and behold, I did. It could have been a lot worse, though. I remember waking up with high fevers when I was younger and not being able to lift my head or call for my mother. This morning my temperature was barely over 100; 1000 milligrams of Tylenol brought that right down.
I guess I picked the best time to be sick—when I have almost three whole periods of 24 hours at home. If I were in New York, I’d have to bundle up to go get food, and I’d probably end up going out, not realizing that I’m sick. It isn’t like a have a thermometer up there.
October 29th, 2005 at 4:36pm
Oh no, fever! I hope you get better staying at home where people can take care of you. Tylenol brings down fevers?
October 29th, 2005 at 7:07pm
Apparently. It is gentle on the stomach, so it was safe to have right when I woke up.
October 31st, 2005 at 4:53pm
Well, this is late so there’s no point in wishing you well since through my extrasensory preceptions, I’ve determined that you are well now.
But what’s this about a knee brace? If you have bad knees and you’re taking a “kicking-oriented” martial art (like Tae Kwon Do), that could be a bad combination especially if you aren’t kicking anotomically correct. There are many stories of people in their 30s and 40s having to wear thick metal knee braces because they kicked the wrong way when they were martial artists earlier. That said, if kicking puts any strain on your knee or if you feel that kicking doesn’t follow the same joint motions as walking or stomping on the ground, get Dave to show you how to kick right. In fact, do it anyway just for the sake of saké, the Japanese alcoholic drink.
October 31st, 2005 at 5:06pm
Thanks for your concern, Mike. I only have to wear the knee brace to protect my previously-torn ACL (although the last time something was wrong with my knee, the ACL was the strongest part in there). Kicking wasn’t giving me trouble before I started wearing my brace, but certain stances (horse stance, for example) were impossible to hold. For saké, though, I’ll see if Dave wants to show me the proper techniques the next time I’m home.