Malade

I was sick all last week. Not just miss a day or 2 of work sick. I missed the whole week! Fever, chills, diarreha, body aches and pain. The only saving grace was i wasn't vomiting, though if i had ate something maybe i would have.
Not to mention there was a heat wave in the beginning of the week, and i had no fans!! So that certainly didn't speed recovery.

I felt like i lost all contact with things French. Other than calling the office, i spoke no French, not even to my doctor, she's Canadian and speaks English. I read books in English and watched Seinfeld DVDs. I could have been sick in the US, except no Gatorade!! Believe me, when you're dehydrated, and have that gross coating on the tongue that happens when you're sick, and even water disgusts you, there's nothing more you want than Gatorade! How could the French not have it? What do their endurace athletes drink?? As soon as I'm back from a business trip to London Mon and Tues, i will start a hunt.

Being sick sucks on so many levels.
1) It sucks. Who wants to be feverish and so weak a trip to the bathroom is a monumental event requiring about an hour of gathering your forces?

2) I'm finding my 4th month here harder than the 1st three. I'm frustrated my French hasn't improved more, wondering how i'm going to make friends outside of work. So this week of isolation has not helped.

3) I finally felt I had resumed some semblance of a workout routine, and was running regularly, first time since hurting my knee way back in Sept. Then I tripped and banged up that same knee. Barely started to run again after that, than this!! Argh!!! I'm not asking to run a marthon, i just want to go out and run 4-5 miles a couple times a week without my knee hurting. Oh ok. I do want to run a marathon, just one, sometime in my life. New York. I still dream.......