Xixi lin Essay#1, Draft#2

Xixi lin
March 13, 2013
Essay#1, Draft#2

 Influenza

In a few years ago, summer, I caught an influenza. I will never forget that experience; that summer was deadly hot, but I felt that I was living in a secret area which weather changed in every hour. For example, this moment I would feel like I was lost in an African desert, but in next hour, I would feel like I was wearing birthday suit in the North Pole.

           In the beginning of the illness, I didn't feel so sick, because it started out as just a cold, and in my past opinion of a cold, I had thought I will be on the mend sooner or later, and in the meanwhile, I just need to drink more water. But I was totally wrong about it, because it suddenly got worse in the flowing few days. One day, when I woke up in the morning, I felt that my throat was as big as a walnut stuck in it, and I coughed so hard as if I coughed hard enough, then I will be able to spit the "walnut" out of my throat, but it was like wouldn't go away like forever.

           All of this made me felt so headache and exhausted. I had felt there were thousand pound of stone suck in my head, and with each coughing come with a heavier stone bumped on my head. Also the "walnut" was getting bigger and bigger, so I was barely able to swallow any food. My body got weaker and weaker. In a few days, I lost a lot of weight. I felt myself was powerless as a last leaf of a tree.

          I had been lying on the bed all of those times, and my father had to bring me around. He bought some flu medicine from drugstore, but they were not helpful to me. My body was come down with an unstable fever. My body temperature was being sweltering high in the second then suddenly trembling cold in the next. I was under covering in a heavy quilt in summer New York and without using air conditioner at that time.

          Luckily, my father had taken me to call on a really professional and experienced doctor. He gave me a series of traditional Chinese medicine treatment, and then told me that I have to eat something because body needs nutrition to strengthen its system, and he told me to rest as well as possible.

          When we went back home, he cooked the Chinese medicine, then I drank it. I went back to my bed and covered myself under my heavy quilt then totally fell in a deep deep sleep. When I woke up, my father told me I had almost slept for 30 hours, and in a moment, he had thought did I black out or just fall in sleep. But I was totally felt much well after that deep sleep. I started to feel hungry, and he had already prepared soup for me.

         I was soon on the mend and back on my feet. I was so glad I had my father to take care of me at that time.