5:45 AM- Wake up, whine to parents about a terrible headache
6:00 AM- Discover that temperature is 99 degrees, go back to sleep
6:45 AM- Wake up again suffering a severe bout of chills and feeling extremely groggy
7:00 AM- Eat breakfast, make final decision to stay nyumbani from school
7:30 AM- Suffer another episode of chills and go up to bedroom
7:35 AM- Take a morning nap before chills get worse
7:45 AM- Become extremely cold, get another headache, crank up the heated blanket to the highest it'll go
8:00 AM- Violently yank off heated blanket and turn down heat after waking up sweating
9:00 AM- Wake up feeling even groggier after dad leaves for work. Go downstairs and watch remainder of Good Morning America
9:05 AM- Mother makes an overly worried phone call. Assure her that everything is okay.
9:15 AM- Suffer another bout of chills and collapse on the kitanda to catch the last of Good Morning America
10:00 AM- Realize that there's nothing mildly interesting on TV except soap operas. Perform periodic temperature check. One hundred and one degrees.
10:10 AM- Go down to practice the piano, but decide head throbs too much. Neighbor makes periodic phone call; assure her everything is fine.
11:00 AM- Check fanpop for anything new. Perform periodic temperature check. Still one hundred and one degrees.
11:30 AM- Heat up cold supu for lunch, along with about five glasses of water. Go back to check Fanpop.
11:45 AM- Finish about half of the supu before feeling seriously dizzy. Quickly put the supu away and drink as much water as I can hold.
12:00 PM- Go back to computer to watch cat videos
12:15 PM- Get stranded on the weird side of YouTube; instead find something on Netflix to watch on TV
12:30 PM- Get bored of Netflix. Fall asleep on couch.
1:30 PM- Realize I slept through My periodic temperature check. Angry to find that it hasn't gone down at all.
1:45 PM-1:46 PM- Receive two consecutive phone calls: one from mom, one from neighbor
2:00 PM- Finally break down from the chills and headaches and grogginess. Huddle in a corner of the jikoni whimpering like a wounded animal.
2:05 PM- Periodic temperature check. No luck.
2:25 PM- Become drowsy from fever medicine. Take afternoon nap.
3:30 PM- Wake up feeling somewhat refreshed. Eat a Clementine and drink some milk. Realize with frustration I slept through another temperature check. Still no luck
3:40 PM- Mom comes nyumbani and fusses over my health, as well as making me drink water until I’m about to burst
3:45 PM- Check school website for homework. Complete all of it before getting another pounding migraine and severe chills
6:00 PM- Wake up with a queasy stomach and feeling grumpy. Take a quick kuoga to get blood flowing.
6:30 PM- Try once again to practice the piano. Make it through a few scales and a fragment of a sonata before a severe coughing fit.
7:00 PM- Appetite returns. Eat chajio, chakula cha jioni with family. Perform periodic temperature check. One hundred degrees.
7:30 PM- Mom demands I take zaidi medicine. Watch TV with family for a while.
8:00 PM- Finish remainder of homework and manage to read a little bit
9:00 PM- Get another round of chills and go to kitanda in frustration
inayofuata MORNING (if still sick): Repeat process once again.
6:00 AM- Discover that temperature is 99 degrees, go back to sleep
6:45 AM- Wake up again suffering a severe bout of chills and feeling extremely groggy
7:00 AM- Eat breakfast, make final decision to stay nyumbani from school
7:30 AM- Suffer another episode of chills and go up to bedroom
7:35 AM- Take a morning nap before chills get worse
7:45 AM- Become extremely cold, get another headache, crank up the heated blanket to the highest it'll go
8:00 AM- Violently yank off heated blanket and turn down heat after waking up sweating
9:00 AM- Wake up feeling even groggier after dad leaves for work. Go downstairs and watch remainder of Good Morning America
9:05 AM- Mother makes an overly worried phone call. Assure her that everything is okay.
9:15 AM- Suffer another bout of chills and collapse on the kitanda to catch the last of Good Morning America
10:00 AM- Realize that there's nothing mildly interesting on TV except soap operas. Perform periodic temperature check. One hundred and one degrees.
10:10 AM- Go down to practice the piano, but decide head throbs too much. Neighbor makes periodic phone call; assure her everything is fine.
11:00 AM- Check fanpop for anything new. Perform periodic temperature check. Still one hundred and one degrees.
11:30 AM- Heat up cold supu for lunch, along with about five glasses of water. Go back to check Fanpop.
11:45 AM- Finish about half of the supu before feeling seriously dizzy. Quickly put the supu away and drink as much water as I can hold.
12:00 PM- Go back to computer to watch cat videos
12:15 PM- Get stranded on the weird side of YouTube; instead find something on Netflix to watch on TV
12:30 PM- Get bored of Netflix. Fall asleep on couch.
1:30 PM- Realize I slept through My periodic temperature check. Angry to find that it hasn't gone down at all.
1:45 PM-1:46 PM- Receive two consecutive phone calls: one from mom, one from neighbor
2:00 PM- Finally break down from the chills and headaches and grogginess. Huddle in a corner of the jikoni whimpering like a wounded animal.
2:05 PM- Periodic temperature check. No luck.
2:25 PM- Become drowsy from fever medicine. Take afternoon nap.
3:30 PM- Wake up feeling somewhat refreshed. Eat a Clementine and drink some milk. Realize with frustration I slept through another temperature check. Still no luck
3:40 PM- Mom comes nyumbani and fusses over my health, as well as making me drink water until I’m about to burst
3:45 PM- Check school website for homework. Complete all of it before getting another pounding migraine and severe chills
6:00 PM- Wake up with a queasy stomach and feeling grumpy. Take a quick kuoga to get blood flowing.
6:30 PM- Try once again to practice the piano. Make it through a few scales and a fragment of a sonata before a severe coughing fit.
7:00 PM- Appetite returns. Eat chajio, chakula cha jioni with family. Perform periodic temperature check. One hundred degrees.
7:30 PM- Mom demands I take zaidi medicine. Watch TV with family for a while.
8:00 PM- Finish remainder of homework and manage to read a little bit
9:00 PM- Get another round of chills and go to kitanda in frustration
inayofuata MORNING (if still sick): Repeat process once again.
