Il Divo and Il Flu Bug!

So according to the calendar and my ticker up above TODAY is Il Divo!!!! This is the day I've been looking forward to for 3 months! And the night before last I had to get the flu! What great timing. I'm feeling a ton better this morning, just really weak. I was flat on my back yesterday, trying not to lift a finger so as to get better faster for today.

Last night was kind of scary. I got home from my parent's around 6:45 p.m. and I was shivering with chills. I took off my shoes and jacket and by the time I got upstairs to the bathroom I could hardly turn the water on. Here's my most brilliant moment...I didn't even think about fever...nope. So I ran a nice hot bath. We're talking slow roasted to perfection! Well, I get into my nice hot bath, hoping to stop the shaking and it only gets worse! I'm shaking so bad now I don't think I can even get out. I'm wanting to call Jer, but he's in the basement bathing the girls. So I grit my teeth (careful not to bite my tongue with all the chattering) and haul out of the tub (and we have a large tub, it's like doing hurdles). I run (more like stumble) still wet into my bed and get under the thickest, heaviest blanket I can find and curl up in the fetal position trying to stop the shaking. This whole episode lasted for half an hour. Jer finally comes upstairs and I tell him to go Google the recipe for an electrolyte drink (I'm thinking I'm getting dehydrated). I sip a little of that and then call Healthlinks and the nurses says I sound like I should be okay, but if the fever gets worse or my mouth gets really dry or I'm feeling dizzy I should go to emergency.

So I'm lying in bed taking my temperature like every 20 minutes and it's going up, and up and up. That's when I really started getting worried. My temperature was past the dangerous levels, but my skin wasn't really hot and I wasn't hallucinating or out of it. So Jer sponged me and I laid there and prayed. I took Tylenol and sat in a lukewarm bath. And prayed. Slowly...way too slowly my temperature went back down .1 degree at a time. I think I just got my internal temperature so hot in my bath that it took a really long time for it to go down. It wasn't even a fever. I'm naturally a hotter person to begin with, so that doesn't help. I finally went to bed at 10:15 and I slept really well. This morning I'm feeling a lot better, very weak, but way better than yesterday.

So Mommy's going to come over and make me homemade chicken noodle soup and help me with the girls so that I can rest up for this evening's outing. At least I can walk upright now for short periods of time and I don't feel nauseated anymore. All steps in the right direction!

***UPDATE: I'm feeling way better!!!! We're leaving for Il Divo in an hour and a quarter. Yay!!! Thanks for any prayers you may have sent!