It’s 3am and I’m still awake. Not really sure why. I was pretty exhausted a few hours ago. Then I decided to look at my schoolwork that I have to do tomorrow and then I ended up doing it all now. lol. I had some discussion comments to make and an essay final draft to turn in before 2:59pm and I started thinking about how I’d been planning on waking up at 8am tomorrow and doing a bunch of stuff, but I’ve had that same plan all week and I’ve ended up sleeping until noon all week. So I figured I’d better just do it all now while I’m thinking about it and not worry about getting myself up in the morning.
I don’t usually procrastinate this bad. Well, I did in high school, but all semester long I’ve done really well with getting my work turned in a day or two early. This week, though, it’s been hard. Troy and I both got sick in Myanmar and only having three days before we left for Thailand made it a struggle to get anything done. I slept almost all of those three days. Troy slept almost every moment he wasn’t working.
In Thailand, I got hit really bad with something our second to last day and was in a lot of pain. I couldn’t move without my stomach feeling like it was going to rip apart. Curling up in a ball was the only way to combat it, so I spent every moment I could scrunched up. We went to a New Year’s celebration in Phuket (Chinese New Year) and I was so glad they had chairs. I kept my face on my knees and zoned out while we were waiting for the show to start. Troy kept asking if I wanted to go back to the hotel. All afternoon he’d said we could go back to the hotel and stay there all night, but I wanted to see the Chinese gymnasts and I knew he really want to as well, so I just sucked it up and we went. I was okay as long as I stayed still, which I did for the most part. We left as soon as the gymnasts ended their presentation so we could get out of there before the masses left.
The next day, Troy said we could stay in the hotel all day so I could sleep more, but he’d paid for a speed boat to take us on an island hopping tour and it sounded really fun, so we went. I figured it was going to be like the island hopping tour we did in Koh Phi Phi (the first half of our Thailand trip) and also in Langkawi when we were there at New Year’s, but it was just a bit different. We were on a speed boat and we went very fast. Every wave of the water bounced the boat and since the water was choppy, there were many. I’m so glad I had prayed for strength to get through the day because I don’t think I would have made it otherwise. I’m also glad that there weren’t a lot of places where I had to walk. Most stops we were only there for 20-30 minutes, so we couldn’t wander too far. Our last stop was for over an hour and Troy had wanted to go snorkel, but the water was so choppy (it was so bad we all ended up with bruises on our backs and behinds from the jumps the boat was taking) that we just wandered up and down the beach. Well, I sat on the beach for a bit while Troy walked on and took pictures. Then he came back with some sea shells for me and asked if I’d like to play in the water. We should have gone in there first. Being in the water helped me feel better for some reason. My body didn’t hurt as much. After wandering around and picking up seashells for a while, I was feeling a bit sick again. Thankfully, that was about the time we were supposed to head back to the boat.
The next day, we came home. Troy was feeling super sick, too, by that point. So, we slept. Well, I had a paper to turn in first. I’d been planning on writing my rough draft on the plane ride home after thinking about it and coming up with ideas while in Thailand, but I hadn’t planned on getting sick, so I didn’t write anything on the plane. Thankfully, I’d come up with ideas for what I’d wanted to write about, so I had somewhere to start and I got the paper written pretty quickly. I didn’t write it very well and I didn’t follow all the instructions, but it was just a rough draft for peer review, so all I really focused on was getting my ideas on the paper and getting it turned in. I got hit pretty hard on the peer reviews, but it was to be expected. Both people gave me really good feedback on things I hadn’t even realized I’d done wrong, so they were both really helpful. I just finished the final draft of the essay and now it’s all turned in.
Now, I can go back to doing what I’ve been doing all week: sleeping. I’ve slept until noon pretty much every day except today. I’d promised to call my mom this morning. Well, I guess I should say yesterday because it’s 3am, but I’m one of those people who say it’s still today until I go to bed, regardless of what time it is. lol. So, yeah, I told my mom I’d call her yesterday morning, so I got up around 9:30am to take a quiz and then called my mom. When Troy woke up, we just sat on the couch and watched movies all afternoon.
Poor Troy took his second sick day this week. He was out today and Wednesday. He should have taken Thursday off, too, but he said he has stuff that needs to be done next week and he’s doing the prep work for it this week. Poor guy slept almost all of Wednesday and today he slept until about 12:30. He went to bed around 9:30 last night. He keeps saying he’s in a lot of pain and that his body hurt too much to move. He’s not eating much and has zero energy. I’m glad that I’m feeling better and can take care of him. I’m still super exhausted and don’t have much energy, but I’m not in pain anymore. I have no clue what I had and, from what I can tell, it’s not the same thing as what Troy has. My stomach pain and body aches lasted two days. His have been all week. I guess he could have the same thing I had, but a whole lot worse. Poor guy. He came out of his room while I was talking to my mom this morning and she said that she could just hear how sick he was in his voice. I wish there was something I could do. Troy keeps joking that he has H1N1 and part of me is a little worried he might really have that.
haha. Troy just came out of his room to use the restroom and asked me why I’m still awake. I guess I really should go to bed now. I’ve double-checked my assignments and nothing is due until Monday (Tuesday for me) so I can sleep as long as I need to. Yay! I’m turning my alarm clock off. All I have to do when I wake up is prepare my lesson for Sunday School. Wish me luck. And say some prayers for Troy. He really needs them.
