2 days ago on friday, the 3 Techies me, Katelyn, and Gavin traveled to Austin for our Phase 3 training and board meeting. What a trip its been so far! As soon as we got ino Austin I came down with a horrible fever and had to skip out on dinner that night to try to sleep it off. Didn't work. I woke up the next morning with the most excruciating pain in my stomach and throat, and to top that off I was still pushing a 102-103 fever :/ I rushed myself to the toilet where I empties the little contaminants my stomach was holding and tried to drag myself to breakfast. The moment I walked to the lobby of our La Quinta hotel, Daddy Blaze took one look at me and said, " I think you need to sit today out", and I agreed. I made my way back to my room and once again tried to sleep it off, but the pain in my throat continued to get worse. I finally stumbled out of bed and dragged myself to the bathroom to take a look at my tonsils. I nearly fainted at the sight of them. They were so red and swollen that they were touching, they had huge blisters on either side of them, and everytime i coughed or spat it wasn't saliva coming out of my mouth...it was blood. Not only was I spitting blood, but I was as pale as a ghost, I knew now that I couldn't take any chances. I was starting to get really delerious so I immediately grabbed my phone and called my uncle who lives in the Austin area and told him my situation, he rushed to my hotel as fast as he could, took one look at me, and knew it wasn't good. He called Blaze to let him know my situation and Blaze concerned about my healty released me to him, thank god he did. My uncle didn't wanna take any chances so he took me strait to a hospital where I was seen immediately. The nurse ran my temp. at about 103, swabbed my inflamed throat and quickly put me in a bed to lay down. Exhausted and drained from everything that had happened I quickly fell asleep. After some time passed, i'm not sure how much exactly a doctor came in to give me the prognosis. He told me that I had a bad fever that I poorly treated(sorry had no access to meds!) and it caused blisters to form on my tonsils and swell them up, when these blisters became too large to expand they popped, causing all the bacteria and infection to right back down my throat into my body. Sounds pretty painful huh? Believe me it felt 10 times worse! The doc gave me some steroids right away to make the swelling go down so I could properly breath and get some fluids and food in my body. He then released me to my Uncle and gave me a few prescriptions to help my pain and the infection. I've been in bed since then and its still up in the air whether I make it to the Board of Directors meeting tomorrow. I'm glad though that my Uncle was so quick to help and I thank God that it wasn't anything too too serious and that we caught it before it got any worse. I'll just take it day by day from here and hope it gets better. Pray for me y'all!
-Patrick out.
