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Sick At Home

The other day I had a nap after work, and woke up with achy joints and wicked headache. Since then, things have only gotten worse. I tried to go into work on Wednesday but had a really bad case of the chills, so bad that I was having trouble typing since my hands [...]

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Not Doing So Well

After work, I was feeling a bit tired so I laid down for a quick nap. When I woke up a few hours later, not only did I have a wicked headache, most of my joints hurt too. I’ve since turned the heat up in my apartment to around 28C, and [...]

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A week of being sick

I normally have an immune system of steel. Not only is it pretty rare that I get sick, but when I do it normally doesn’t last too long. In fact, I don’t think I’ve taken more than three sick days in my entire life, and one of them was faked way back in [...]

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Duane’s SARS Update

Good news is that I’m back home, awake, and compared to how I felt yesterday morning, doing relatively ok in terms of my lungs and joints. I’m still sick, and I have next to zero lung capacity, but I feel like I’ve stabilized at least.
But here’s the bad news — I can hardly hear [...]

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The Journey Home

I woke up this morning feeling even worse than I did when I went to bed last night, so I bit the bullet and changed my flight — I’ll be coming home later this evening. If I’m to get any more sick, I definitely want it to be back in Canada where I can [...]

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Sick in San Francisco

Somewhere over the Nevada desert, sometime at around noon on Saturday, I started to sneeze. It started with a little tickle in my nose, and escalated to three really huge sneezes out of nowhere. Two days later, my nose won’t stop running, it hurts behind my eyes, my joints are sore, and [...]

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