Groan. I've had a visit from the doctor and his lovely assistant today. My head is killing me, last night I had uncontrollable shivers that even with a hot shower wouldn't go away, my fingers are having the pins and needles feeling and I feel like a wreck.

The result: a severe case of the flu.

Now I'm no stranger to being sick, hardly even, but this was like being rammed down by an 18-wheeler coming out of the fog and subsequently being run over by all the wheels.

I'm allowed 4 pills of 1 gram paracetamol and I have to make sure I drink enough. The doctor told me this kind of flu can knock me out for at least two weeks. Juuust great.

Good news is that the blood tests came back clean, sugarlevel is normal.