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Day One -  (Tuesday):
Wake up knowing I’m getting a cold as stuff is going on in my nose. Go to work and feel okay though. Joke with colleagues and with the big contrary bear. By midday, I want to go home, but can’t as have to do some work for my boss by the end of the day. On the way home, go to buy Viral Choice and Vitamin C at the pharmacy.

Night One:
Couldn’t sleep at all. Headache like you wouldn’t believe. Legs HURT. Legs HURT! Head pounding, eyes pounding, throat pounding. Whole flippin’ head POUNDING. Have to blow nose one nostril at a time as one is blocked and one isn’t. Every time I do, it feels like someone hit me in the eye with a sledgehammer. Can’t breathe through nose so have to keep mouth open. Lips dry, and yet liquid is coming out of mouth. Nose tickles and then liquid comes out of there too. Keep drinking tea and juice the whole night. Tissues sodden with yuck are accumulating on the floor.

Day Two (Wednesday):
Spend the whole day in bed. Aching all over. Tissues now sodden with dark yellow yuck which if I remember correctly signifies infection. Wonder how my friend Nike, who used to get the flu on a regular basis, coped. In and out of sleep. Eat toast so can take medicine, which doesn’t seem to be doing anything. Keep on taking Panado, which definitely doesn’t do anything for the headache.

Night Two:
Much better. Actually sleep, although wake up a lot, but aware that have got some sleep. Hacking cough starts though and definitely can’t go to work.

Day Three (Thursday):
Wake up feeling better than yesterday, but head still hurts and now mid section hurts, rather than legs. Who invented flu anyway and why does it just creep up out of nowhere?