Catching Up

I just had a rough week.  I’m not sure if it has anything to do with I’ve been handling myself this past month, but this has been the most ill I’ve been in years.  I realized that I haven’t posted an entry on this blog since the beginning of the year, so I decided to relax a bit today as I recover.

Last Wednesday, I had a dry throat and thought it was just from eating pizza for lunch.  I drank some more water and didn’t think too much of it.  Thursday morning, I woke up still with a dry throat and I started having allergies.  It had been raining all week long and that Thursday was finally a bright and sunny day.  That means pollen and spores would spread throughout the air.  I had itchy eyes, nose, and even inside my ear was itchy.  My eyes were watering, my nose was runny, and was sneezing like crazy.  I was thinking that maybe I’m just going through allergies.  I didn’t feel that great.  “At least I’m not coughing like I was back in November and December.”  I started coughing that evening.  “At least I’m not bedridden.”  That night, I felt really cold when sleeping and when I woke up, I realized my whole body was covered in sweat.  “Maybe I really was sick and not just allergies?”  Friday morning, I felt weak and tired.  After breakfast, I couldn’t bear to be out of bed anymore.  My legs were shaky walking up and down the stairs, my skin and hair were sensitive and in pain, I felt cold, and I started coughing more.  I was bedridden the entirety of Friday except for eating.  At that point, I felt like I needed to learn to shut my mouth and stop jinxing everything.  Saturday, I woke up feeling like I had a bad hangover.  My body was sore.  My head was pounding and I kept coughing up phlegm.  The more I coughed, the worse my headache got.  I eventually ate a Motrin pill and the pounding pain dissipated and came back later that night as a mild pain.  Sunday was showing signs of recovery as I didn’t have as much pain all over my body, but I still dealt with coughing.  I’m still coughing, but not as frequently.

I don’t know if this was a sign that I’ve been pushing myself too hard with exercise and work this month, but I feel like I don’t want to slow down the momentum I’ve been having.  I’m doing quite well with my workouts, though I wish to improve more on exercise for cardio, weight loss, and muscle toning.  In terms of work, I had finished 2 remixes and was almost done with the third one right before I got sick.  It feels nice to be so productive.  I spent most of January planning out my work for the year while trying to get through some games.  I was able to complete 16 games in January!  I don’t think I’ll be able to finish any games these next two days, so I only completed 6 games in February.  I’m surprised I even completed so many in January when I spent nearly 40 hours on one game (VA-11 HALL-A, which I will eventually talk about soon).

I was focused on my remixes and planning out my work for the next few months.  If I wasn’t working, I would be playing Fire Emblem Heroes on iPad and Nioh on PS4.

I want to stay focused on my work and turn it into what I’ll eventually do in the videogame industry, but I also can’t stop worrying about my health.  I still keep having small pains around my chest and abdomen while suffering from headaches (this is even before I got sick the past week).  I don’t know if my poor vision on my left eye or my teeth bunching up is affecting anything, but those are things I should get checked out as well.  Nothing for me to do except get another medical checkup.  Otherwise, I just got to push forward and do what I need to do.