So, I left early this morning with my family on a vacation we planned over a year ago, when I was feeling crummy, but not horribly sick yet. (Of course I assumed that my doctors would figure out what was wrong with me and I would certainly be well by this point.)
Getting up early left me feeling a bit tired and I mostly wanted to be left alone on the flight. But irritability is a common symptom for me, so that was nothing new. But when we got off the plane after a five hour flight, I started having trouble filling my lungs (shortness of breath has been a long lasting and especially vexing symptom for me) and I also felt dizzy and nauseous. I felt a bit better after some blowing some dry, air conditioning in my face and eating something. The dizziness passed, but the bone tired feeling has lingered.
And then, after resting quietly for about :45, I completely stuttered when I went to say something. I am NOT a person with speech issues when I am welll, so that really irritated me. I did that months ago, but was surprised when it happened again today. Then, my sternum got some sharp pains. Sigh. I was optimistic that I wouldn't notice any ill effects of a long plane flight, but I was wrong. Now maybe I just need to go for a scuba dive and breathe some compressed oxygen into my body for a while to make up for the low oxygen on the plane flight. At least I know to expect it on the way home.
We just did my Bicillin shot, and I am saying "Die, bugs, die!" Now, time to watch the sunset before I crash completely. Hopefully I'll be able to be up and around tomorrow.