Or rather, not swimming, 7th June 🙁
I was out in the garden after lunch on Saturday when suddenly many of my major muscles starting convulsing, to the point where it was painful and I had to drop to all-fours so I didn’t fall over. After a couple of minutes that passed, but I realised then that despite being out in the sunshine and still being able to feel the warmth on my skin, I was shivering. I managed to get indoors, bounced off the walls a bit on the way to the bedroom, fell on the bed and zonked out for several hours. That evening I was pretty much sitting in a puddle of my own sweat all the time and my body temperature was 100°F (can’t get the thermometer to read °C at the moment). The small hours of Sunday morning were a bit hallucinogenic 🙂 Yesterday my temperature had come down a bit, but I was still quite feverish and didn’t sleep very well last night either.
This morning I woke up to find that my left foot was swollen and bright red, and my left calf was blotchy red all down the outside. I can walk, but it’s not easy because I have limited feeling in my toes. My temperature is closer to normal, but I’m still going through phases of sweating and shivering. A trip to the GP was arranged fairly sharpish.
I am now on heavy-duty antibiotics and not planning on doing much with my time for the next few days as its become quite uncomfortable to even stand up, so swimming is off the menu for the time being 🙁