down with the lurgy

I was taken ill on Boxing Day and since then I have been confined either to bed or to a couch in the library where I have spent several nights sleeping by the fire side.
So fat my G.P has been unable to fathom the cause and has declared it to be "a virus", this, in spite of several batteries of tests, the latest of which was last Wednesday.

The virus is cyclical. the fever and nausia subside after 24 hours only to return withing the next 24 hours,it is very debilitating.

Unable to eat at all for over a week I have for the past three weeks eaten nothing but rice pudding, toast and jacket potatoes and even that is an effort.Today I managed to eat an egg with my toast, there's progress!

Meanwhile the  anti-biotics, anti nausia tablets and gallons of water are the order of the day as the recurrent fever leaves my dehydrated.
Sleep is impossible as I have to keep changing the bed sheets and my nightclothes and I am now using disposable sheets!

I have felt a little better today and at least I feel able to write, something which has been out of the question for days.

I await the test results with impatience, I want to get on with my life. It may well take a while to get over this as I am very weak and not eating properly has not helped.

I hope to be able to write again soon but as things are I never know from day to day how I shall be, in even a few hours time.

I should like to wishh one and all a Happy New Year, belated I know but heartfelt none the less.