Get Well Soon!
Last week was terrible. All four of us were sick.
Started off with Alex. He started to have mild fever last Monday morning (3/24), he came the coughing. Fever lingered for 3 days, come and gone, then all the sudden shoot up to 102/103F. He was so weak that when I fed him the medicine in the middle of the night, his little hand shivered as he holding the cup. My heart just dropped and broken. As he was going back to sleep, he murmured a little and insisted on sleeping on my arm. Took him to Dr. Yau, got some anti-biotic, fever was gone in no time. He still cough a little, but he is energetic.
As for Ashlyn, she just had a little running and stuffy nose, that’s all. Baba started to feeling tired as Alex was starting to get sick. He got a lot better after 2 days of sleep. Me? I think I started to sneeze on Tuesday. I tried to fight it, cux I know I can’t be sick when Alex needed my care. As Alex’s fever subsided, I let my guard down, and that’s when I start to feel muscle and joint ache on Saturday. The cold and flu medicine didn’t help, so what did I turn to? Chinese wisdom. I thought about spooning, but I didn’t.
The older generation of Chinese in my family, and I think many Chinese in every corner of the world, believe that when you had flu, you should make yourself sweat. Well, that’s exactly what I did. Not by cleaning the house, washing cars, or exercising. I went to bed. I had a cup of hot herbal tea for flu, and prepare a hot water bag between the sheets(which is a rubber bag that holds hot water and releases warm temperature to keep you warm) just before I jumped into the bed. Then I basically hibernated with 2 goose down comforters for 3 hours, I started to sweat. Although I still cough and sneeze the next day, but all in all, I felt must better. I’m still sick, still coughing, and for some odd reasons, I felt like I’m riding a plane, cux my ears are stuffed by air pressure.
Oh, I hope I’ll get well soon!
