On Sunday, the pastor read us these verses from Hebrews 4:10-11.

“For the one who has entered His rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from His.

Therefore let us be diligent to enter that rest, so that no one will fall, through following the same example of disobedience.”

I jokingly told my friend:”Oh yes, I really need a rest man…”

“Don’t tell me you’re going back to work after service!”

Me:” Er…I don’t want to be ‘disobedient’ so will take a good cat nap, then go back to work. How does it sound?”

My friend said I was hopeless.

On Monday morning, I woke up with a bad headache. So I thought it would go away after a good hot shower.

But it didn’t.

It became worse after lunch. So bad that I couldn’t even have my eyes open. It felt as if my head was going to explode!

I dragged my feet to my last 4 hours of class (of the day). My students were very nice and understanding. No one made me scream and rather, they were trying to cheer me up. Too bad that each time I wanted to laugh at their ‘lame jokes’, my head threatened to explode.

2 hours had painfully passed. My body shivered and my students said that I looked like I was going to die. Finally, the fever kicked in. I knew I had to lie down before my body takes charge to do so (even without my permission). I had to dismiss the class earlier.

Since then, I have been sleeping like a baby. I can’t stay up for more than 2 hours before hitting the sack again. Have plenty of water (because that’s what sick people do) and always wake up with “the urge”. Worse, cold sweat.

I am allergic to panadol. (It’s stupid, I know…) It makes my stomach really upset. So I have alternatives…

Some good old medicines from my family doctor who knows my allergies inside out, and essential oils for headache and nausea.

Being single and staying alone at this very helpless moment, always rub salt into the wound. I am too tired and weak to neither buy meals nor cook. So how? Somehow I managed not to ‘rot’ at home.

But I am glad that my body can finally shut down, even for a good 2 days. The downside is though, feeling very guilty that I missed classes and seeing so many “UNREAD” emails waiting for replies. Nevertheless, I have gotten the rest that I have long needed it.

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