better

My symptoms have pretty much all cleared up. I went to sleep a bit after 10:30 and got a few hours of shut-eye before I woke up in the middle of the night. I had taken some TheraFlu before hitting the hay, and I'd also gargled with salt water as a precaution against what felt like an incipient sore throat. With relief, I got horizontal and immediately plunged into slumber. A few hours later, maybe around 3:30 a.m. or so (when I normally go to sleep), I woke up with really bad diabetic neuropathy in my feet. I don't know how to describe the weird, paradoxical combination of numbness and pain. I get images in my head of cotton balls, representing the dull numbness, punctuated by lightning strikes, representing the shooting pains. I found it hard to go to sleep after that, so I watched YouTube on my phone for an hour, then got the idea to take some ibuprofen, which seemed to do the trick. I didn't wake up again until around 11:00 a.m., and by that point, all my symptoms had disappeared.

After waking up at 11, I made the command decision not to be at work until 12:30 or so. I felt better, but my overall constitution still felt a bit delicate. I knew I couldn't take a day off because we've got stuff that's due today, meaning I had to be in the office. So I set my phone's timer for another 40 minutes' sleep, then got up and took my time getting ready for work.

Things at the office have been good today. No return of any symptoms. As of this writing (2:45 p.m.), the boss still hasn't come in. He's got a meeting later today, so I assume he has to come in at some point (unless he's called the CEO directly and canceled today's meeting).

Whatever. In the currently unpredictable office environment, you just have to learn to roll with circumstances. For now, what counts is that I feel a lot better.