Knowledge Brings Fear

Strange Virus

Thursday I wanted to escape the serious summerheat in Berlin (which I love!) by going for a swim, but I didn't come very far. After narrowly making the stairs to the S-Bahn station, I was so seriously out of breath and felt so seriously sick that the only possible decission was to grab a taxi and get home, fast. Not long later, fortunatelly in my bed, my body temperature rose to 40.5 degress celsius within half an hour, pulse racing at 125. I was shocked, shocked I say...

Lots of Vitamin C, Schwedenkraeuter, Aspirin and Angocin plus cold ankle wraps, applied and frequently changed by expert hands, in the end did their magic and reduced the fever after a few hours. Next morning I was practically symptom-free. Now I am still a bit shaky on my legs. Going out for shopping today ammounted to a expedition that required carefull planing. So I resort to reading books that were on the stack for a while (like Steve Coll, "Ghost Wars", a very detailed, if a bit one-sided critical history of the CIA involvement in Afghanistan and with Bin Laden during the soviet occupation and afterwards) and hope that the brilliant weather continues next week.

Since my WLAN link is still down, I only have GPRS here, so no high-res pictures from Bulgaria yet uploaded.