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Update on bout with H1N1

I thought I’d give a short (I hope) update on my health status, in case any of you were curious.

This week was a bit hit and miss. One night – it must have been Tuesday, I was working until 1:00 am and had to get up at 5:00 am. That Wednesday when lecturing, I felt short of breath and constricted/achy. I took my inhaler and it helped some, but it also made my heart race (side effect), which is, of course, a disturbing feeling too.

Anyway, I had a couple of moments in lecture where I really had trouble catching my breath. Then I had to go to lab until 5:30. Needless to say, it was a sucky day. I went home and pretty much fell asleep right after supper. So, Thursday I felt great. But again, I hadn’t prepared on Thursday for stuff due on Friday, so I was up until midnight again and was super exhausted yesterday – Friday.

I also had this terrible moment one minute before my lecture started on Friday when I realized that I wasn’t prepared – I was missing part of my lecture prep – which I had not done. I was mis-remembering on Thursday/Friday morning and thought that I’d done it, and never double-checked. So, I had to plead sickness for my lapse in memory and prep, and sort of wing it in lecture. This is the first (and I hope last) time this has/will happen.

In other news, I’m pretty much done taking all drugs except some Mucinex DM. But I think I’ll be stopping that too pretty soon.

Now, I just have to get caught up so that I end these nights of working until midnight!

I hope you are healthy.

Oh, and I found out from a math prof who is doing a class in bioinformatics that one person in Canada has been found to have a mutated version of H1N1 that is resistant to Tamiflu! The sequence has been entered into a genomics database. I hope this mutated form of H1N1 it stays in Canada and/or doesn’t spread! Scary news, I think.