Dengue Report About three weeks ago now I came home from work one night and didn’t want to put the air con on – this is a very strange thing!!! Next thing I know I’m really cold and have my hoodie on with the hood up. No Thailand had not suddenly become very cold, what was happening, I had a fever. However I thought it was just a normal fever and it would pass in a few days, so I took some paracetamol and off I went to work. This continued but I didn’t really feel that I could take time of work so on I plodded. On the Thursday Rolf and Elfi were having a farewell lunch, and for the first day I had no fever so off I went, I was ok that day but the following day I could hardly climb the stairs. I felt as if I had climbed Everest the previous day rather than sitting all day which is what I had been doing. The following day I did not move apart from hobbling down the stairs to get some food by the time I made the food cereal with milk nothing too complex I hadn’t the energy to eat it. Then this red rash appeared. Anyway eventually I realised that I had dengue and was told that I needed to rest for a long time. I kept asking how long a long time was but no one would answer that question. So after lying in bed for a long time, not being able to hold up a needle to do my cross stitch for more than one thread I am getting stronger. I still can’t do too much or I get completely exhausted but it’s definitely a great improvement. It has been really frustrating letting other people do things for me all the time, but I’m so thankful for these people so that I can fully recover. So on Saturday Mum and Dad arrive, and I’m off on holidays: )