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terribly ill

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Tokyo, 2009.11.11

I was terribly ill from Monday night through to Tuesday night, with a 40ºC fever and a generally awful feeling.

I hate been sick, especially when I'm busy. This came in the midst of important things happening in both of the businesses I'm involved in. I lost the whole day on Tuesday, and Monday and Wednesday were pretty limited, too.

In the end, it turned out to be a virus. Not the flu. I tested negatively on two flu tests. But a virus that one of the doctors thought might rest in my nervous system. Terrifying thought, that. Especially with a small boy in tow.

I'm generally better now but I was surprised at how one doctor could diagnose a bacterial infection while the other's bloodwork shows it's not so. I'm grateful for the thoroughness of the latter, I have to say.

rand()m quote

When the world is in accord with the Dao, fast horses are left to fertilize fields. When the world is not in accord with the Dao, war horses are bred in the countryside.

— Lao Tsu