sick...aftermath

The day seems longer and longer. I can't sleep well and I wake up stiff in
the joints. I must be sleeping funny because my right knee sometimes throbs
and wake me during the night. The kids have been sick, the wife has been
sick as well; fever, cough, sinus. I've been playing house nanny for the
past few days and fighting my own sickness. Doped up on ni'quill and
robotussin dm. My stomach is hungry but I also feel nausea as well. I have
not eaten well in about a week. SOme soup and french toast but nothing
really solid.
I'm burning the candle at both ends this last week. Its starting to
catch up with me. I got the feeling that once they get better at home I'll
wind up getting sick as a dog. I almost feel like I'm looking through my
own eyes.... its hard to explain. As if my eyes were goggles and I'm
looking through them. Im also seeing things out of the corners of my eyes.
Weird movements and shadows that are not really there. I hate this feeling.
It feels like this is what the onset of maddness feels like.

You know what I want right now......I want to take a hot bath with some
scented bath bombs and just chill. I want to listen to a book on
tape/cd/mp3 (whatever). I just want to be alone for a few days. Nothing
wrong with that? eh?