No pain no gain

I have to admit that I am (almost) completely recovered. I am still on Attend C because it's home quarantine and it's effectively like having an entire week off. I began to recover at the later parts of last week. Say Friday, or Saturday? My sore throat took pretty long to completely disappear but it did diminish over time. Slowly, and painfully. I did get those infamous dots on my hands and legs but they weren't really significant and they did not become painful (unlike the doctor predicted). I heard that adults do not get the full manifestation of the disease. After all, it's a kid's disease but it's certainly NO child's play.

I sound like I'm giving a review on a disease but having experienced it I would say it's 5/5 pain stars for the sore throat because it's the longest ever (to date) sore throat I ever had and it was the most excruciating pain in my throat EVER. the ulcers give off a burning sensation that linger 3-4 seconds at the after taste, making food totally impassable. The fever was bad, it went up so high. 40.2 was the highest and it stayed there for about a few hours before dropping to a (much better) range of 39s. (39 is still pretty high!).

The first week I had barely energy to do anything because I wasn't eating much. (or anything!). I probably was sitting at the computer for one minute and then lying down for the next 59 minutes. That was how bad the hunger was, yes, even after a "lost of appetite". Fever induced vertigo and a little vomiting here and there.

But I sit here healthy right now. I've been well since Saturday and it's quite a few more days before I return to camp. I guess "no pain, no gain" holds true.

Been watching quite a lot of stuff to kill the boredom. I'm watching Naruto right now.

And King of Baking, a Korean Drama which is actually pretty much the best drama I have ever watched. The episodes are long, 1 hr each and it's tiring to rampage through too many episodes at once but they just have this magic at the end of the episode that mysteriously and mystically binds one to the next and it's so enticing!

When I return to camp it will be just like this, poof two weeks off my serving time. It's so wonderful. I can imagine November coming and it seems like the End of year mood is here! Christmas anyone? block leaves anyone? Perfect. Still have Taiwan trip to look forward to. While the rest head to Engineer training institute for phase 2 of their course I wonder what we'll be doing? Staying back at Company Line or tagging along?

Just like that. I am heading towards four months before ORD! It seems like yesterday when I just enlisted.