#trigger warning illness

Out the corner of my eye I saw this guy start rocking back and forth and making strange noises. Been riding the train all my life so odd behavior from fellow passengers doesn't hold my attention.

But the rocking got more pronounced and he started drooling. I realized he was having a seizure.

I got up and started looking for the call button on the train so I could contact the train operator and ask for medical assistance.

Then I saw that there was a transportation employee on the train and she was calling in the incident on her walkie.

As we pulled into the next train and sat there, I was expecting an ambulance or paramedics to come assist the passenger.

The train station we were pulling into is a ten minute walk from an emergency room so I didn't expect it to be long before some help came.

Instead of paramedics though, a police officer got on the train, poked the man with his baton and asked him if he needed an ambulance.

At this point the passenger was slumped over in his seat and non responsive. Why are you asking a man that just had a violent seizure and is clearly passed out if he needs an ambulance. Do they have no training for situations like this or just common sense?

Meanwhile the rest of us are saying yes he clearly needs help why haven't you already called 911?

Then they cleared everybody off the train and made an announcement about a medical emergency. Meanwhile this man has been seized and passed out for 15 minutes.

ME: On Saturday I choked on phlegm I was coughing up and puked green. 

I am going to my general health doctor tomorrow. I have had a *something* since saturday. I am still not any better. (I may in fact be worse? we just don't know.) Yippee triple-digit fevers and such.

I have been coughing so hard & so frequently that I think abs are developing. ~silver~linings~

Also I have consumed approximately half of the soups in the house. NEED MOAR SOUPS.

Seriously, though, I can't sleep. I was afraid to take a nyquil because last time I took one it did not effectively bring my fever down, and I could not wake up from seriously crazy fever-dreams long enough to try and do anything about that. When I awoke, shivering, at several intervals in the evening it was all I could to to roll over long enough for my hips to stop hurting (I have loose joints. If I don't roll I pain.) and fall back asleep until the morning when I, still shivering, noted that I had 102.8 Fahrenheit and  promptly consumed two tylenol and an expectorant (because I was also kinda sludgey.)

So anyway yeah, I was afraid to nyquil it up, so I took a dayquil instead (hoping that it would not only reduce said fever but also help to stem this godawful coughing, sneezing, and mucous-ing long enough to catch some ~non-dangerous natural sleep~

Alas no sleep has come. The coughing, sneezing, and mucous-ing has persisted. And the fever is just barely holding.

UP. YOURS. -QUIL PRODUCTS.

this is the longest I've ever been actually very under the weather, and so a doctor's visit is in order (especially given the barely-holding triple-digit fever)

It would be nice if coughing didn't make my actual lungs feel as if they're about to ignite, considering what a frequent occurrence it is of recent.

Though I am actually kind of curious what the hell I have. Srsly, this is not achey enough in general to be a flu and it is wayyyy to enduring to be a cold. My mom thinks maybe bronchitis??? I don't know. I have never had bronchitis. It is possible, I suppose. I hear bronchitis takes like a month to clear. I hope this is not true. I can't imagine missing work for an entire month. Though I suppose if I got a note, they could not fire me.

Meanwhile, my head (amongst other parts) srsly hurts, and my eyes are all watery, and I'm thinking of going straight-up voldemort to get rid of this congestion problem.

At least I will have abs.