The Big Sick, Day 8, New York

April 6, 2019

Yesterday, on Saturday, we woke up with plans and fabulous, warm weather!  We went to Kossar's, a bagel place on the lower East side, for bagels then to Times Square for tickets to see a show for the night.  My cold was getting worse, coughing all of the time, etc.  Well, I started feeling very weak as we were going from Kossar's to Times Square and incredibly tired.  I had a horrible headache.  We had to stop a few times for me to rest, and to be honest, I don't remember all of the trip.  I had started having some intermittent diarrhea as well earlier, but blamed the virus I obviously had.  The virus I had been beating back since before I even left had finally won.

Just outside the subway stop we ran into a Tartan Day parade, with many bagpipe bands.  I love the bagpipes, so it was enjoyable.  We watched bits of it as we walked closer to Times Square.

One of the many bagpipe bands, plus tons of Scottish flags being waved everywhere.

A breath of spring

When we got to the TKTS line, I knew that there was no way I was going to be able to walk through that whole line, yet alone go to a play that night.  So we regretfully went back to Anneliese's apartment where I laid on her couch.  We talked for several hours, then I fell asleep as she worked on job applications and watched TV.  I felt badly since she had switched with someone to get the day off to spend with me.

I woke up (after intermittently waking up for a few minutes at at time) just after 1:00.  There was no where open to get food or order in and Anneliese only had oatmeal (we had planned to be eating out), so I ate a handful of trail mix and went to bed.  I had slept intermittently for eight hours.  I continued to cough and blow my nose.  My ribs hurt from the coughing and my nose has little sores on it from the blowing.  Not a pretty picture.  I also continued to need to quickly get to the bathroom for the rest of the night.  I slept more until around 9:30 Sunday morning.

Here are photos from my room in London that I forgot to post yesterday:

this is my little balcony