Por Cina

I spent all morning in the hospital.  My roommate Christin was with a fever all during the night with her lungs on fire.  She wasn't able to stand up to walk across the room.  So after a disgusting wait in the waiting room (i.e., hacking and coughing, kids throwing up inside their masks causing the white vomit to trickle down into their shirt-collars) Christin had her temperature taken (102.2 F/ 39 C), lungs listened to, and the diagnosis pronounced: SWINE FLU.

I as the roommate am more or less quarantined in the apartment.  The two other girls from our apartment have been transferred to another room.  I was not permitted to go to class, and if I go outside I have to wear a mask.

Attractive, I know...

If I do not have symptoms by tomorrow morning then I should be in the clear (and I can go skiing with the group!!).  I have a slight cough but I think it is more mucus related (yum, I know)- I am guzzling fluids and airborne and taking it easy.  The vacated room has been cleaned so I will sleep in a different room at least, though at this point I have been exposed to the germs so it will only be so I can sleep through the night without hearing Christin cough.  Poor girl.

And to think I was so flippant about the swine flu a couple weeks ago.  Funny enough, Christin must have gotten it in Argentina.