"oh what can ail thee Knight at arms, alone and palely loitering"
Well substitute Knight at arms for Elaine Simpson-Long and you have a pretty good idea of how I feel and look today. My last post was full of my idea of taking it easy, going to bed, watching DVDs blah blah blah. On the surface of it, a brilliant idea but, and it is a big but, you can only enjoy this kind of indulgence if you are only slightly unwell and this is where my theory comes grinding to a halt as I was felled by a virus which hit me on Friday night. I had had a wonderful massage in the afternoon, unknotting all my knots in my shoulders and making me feel relaxed even though I had this tickly cough which would not go away. I had planned to go to London on Saturday for a meet up of Book Bloggers organised by Simon on Stuck in a Book which I was really looking forward to after the last few weeks and felt it would make me feel better, but obviously not to be.
Soaring temperature, cramps, vomiting, shivering, shaking and total exhaustion took over and I fell into bed on Friday night and there I lay all weekend. Nothing to do but wait for whatever it was to burn itself out which it has now done. I awoke this morning and cautiously raised my head from the pillow and realised that I felt better, the fever had gone and my head was clear. OK, I have a complexion the colour of a tub of lard, a basso profundo cough which Bryn Terfel would be proud to own and I have to clutch at furniture as I creep round my apartment, but I feel normal again. Thank heavens.
I am now hopeful that this will be the last self pitying post I write and that I can start to get on with things and back to books and reviewing which is what Random is about really.
But once again, I do thank you all out there for your kind thoughts and wishes.
Bless you
