Ouch...

Ouch.

My head hurts and feels hot and my nose is leaking. My eyes are bloodshot and surrounded by dark circles. It's so bad I fight to keep my eyes open, and have sucuumbed to the stupor of 5-hour days, sleeping 19 hours a day, sometimes up to 16 hours at one shot.

With only 5 hours a day, for the last 2 days, I struggle to do all that I'm supposed to do - eat a little something, taking showers to keep myself from turning mildew-y, send a couple of reply sms-es, write an email or two to people expecting them, all the while fighting to keep my eyes open. I'm not sure why my eyes are behaving so strangely; I'm not THAT tired that I will fall asleep once my eyes close shut, but somehow, the eyelids are just so heavy. Is that a sympton of something?

My neck and my shoulder aches from my strange sleeping position. My hair's weird looking, and I'm feeling disorientated from staying in a darkened room all day and all night. My nose is red from all thhe abrasions with tissues and hankies and whatever else is on hand to stem the flood of mucus, bodily fluids and the essense of life dripping slowly but surely out of my body. Help, I'm convincedI'm going to die soon from some form of dehydration. I'm not awake long enough to take enough fluids to replace the ones I've lost, and trust me, I've lost A LOT. So much so that I've run out of tissue; the whole house is absent of tissue with which I can plug my leaking nose.

I'm also convinced that I will drown in my own bodily fluids if I lie down, nose facing up, as the fluids and liquids accumulate and block up all airway passages, and I slowly drown in my sleep. (YIKES!) Add to that, I feel a weird dull numbness, couple of inches beneath my left collarbone left of my vetebrae, and almost directly under my left breast. I hope that goes away soon; it's been most uncomfortable.