The Worst Feeling

I've been sick for the past 2-3 days and it's been the worst experience I've had so far. I think one of the greatest causes was just not taking a shower before bed and staying up too late too often. Along with that, I would like to think that I have a weaker body overall, what with only having part of a heart and everything, so I think I'm more susceptible to illness. This has been an insane sickness, though. It all started on Saturday, when I helped out with the Korean Culture Night here at my school. It's the 3rd annual show, so it hasn't been around an incredibly long time, so I figured I could help out. Unfortunately, the practice went from 2 PM to 1 AM and there was like one break for dinner. That was it. I was extremely tired and knew that I had work to do, so I tried to work in between scenes and during the break, but didn't manage to get too much done. That day, I was so incredibly tired that I got back to the suite, barely managed to do any work, and just went straight to sleep. On the following day, I went to church and found that a friend who had been to training for summer missions all day on Saturday was also sick. I thought nothing of it, I felt bad for her, as we tend to do as humans, and I went on my way. I didn't receive any messages about practice on Sunday, so I just went back to the suite after church, did some work, and went to sleep. Monday was when it hit me. Like a freakin' wrecking ball, I had an insane fever, I could barely concentrate, it was just terrible. I couldn't even swallow properly because it hurt so much. As I came to the realization that I was sick, I tried to sleep it off, but it was only in between classes. I couldn't go to rehearsal on Monday, which was probably for the best because it seems like it went on until 4 AM, at which point I would have been even more sick. Today, Tuesday the 15th, there was rehearsal from 1 PM to 10 PM, but I was only able to go from 3 to 4:30 because I felt so sick. I know that I'm easily replaceable, which is a good thing, especially for roles where I would be an extra, but I really wanted to contribute more. I really should have thought out the consequences of my actions before trying to help out with KCN.

The flyer for the Korean Culture Night

I probably should have allocated my time better, I was barely able to finish an assignment for Writing 140 today because I could barely concentrate. Even now, I'm pretty sure that paper wasn't my best work and I need to improve it for this final paper and portfolio. Tomorrow is the performance and I need to rest up to be properly rested, and hopefully healthy enough to be able to still do the show tomorrow...

Sickness really sucks, I'm definitely going to try to plan out what I involve myself in better so as not to become sick like this again. I'm having fevers all the time now, despite taking Advil, and it still hurts to swallow. I can barely talk without my throat hurting. I had to do Physics homework today, but I wasn't able to complete it without first discussing it with a friend because I had trouble concentrating...

Hoping that your day is better as you read this

-Sam Rho