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April 11, 2007

1122: Sick, but mostly in the head.

I was sick late Sunday night, but well enough to go to work on Monday. Then, on Tuesday, I ended up leaving early on account of a fever. Still achy and crappy-feeling, I'm home today.

I took my temperature first thing this morning, despite the fact that your morning body temperature can often be slightly lower than normal. Evidently, my thermometer isn't working properly because despite having all the indications of still being feverish and achy, my temperature (according to my thermometer) was too low to be normal. Assuming that reading was correct, I asked Pete what it could mean. He said that we should check online, but that the thermometer must be broken because a low body temperature generally relates to hypothermia.

I immediately stopped listening -- not on purpose, but because I was totally distracted. As Pete continued to speak, my mind was only hearing, "Watch out for hypothermia... watch out for daddy's beatings. Watch out for Mom... she's wearing the shoes that you hate!"

In any event, I'm not suffering from hypothermia or anything else I found online about low body temperature (knock on wood!) in the course of my brief "look up something about health online without sending yourself into a panic because you may have only moments to live" search for information. My thermometer is broken. And I have a very short attention span.

Posted by ashley at April 11, 2007 09:35 AM

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