Never fails

My brother is off on a photography trip (left this morning and won't be back until Sunday), so I had all kinds of plans for things to get done that I can't easily do with another person in the house (major cleaning jobs that mean massive messes before they're done). So what happened? Tuesday I woke up with a sore throat - couldn't stand to swallow without actually tearing up from pain. Didn't go to work and yesterday was a total loss - slept on the couch all day, couldn't eat anything other than popsicles, felt like I was laying on a bed of nettles, hotter than hell one minute, freezing the next. My brother was ready to haul me to the emergency room, bless his worried little heart. But sometime last night, the fever broke, and my throat is getting better (I can at least swallow liquids now), but I feel very shaky overall. I'm hoping I'll be able to get something accomplished over the next few days, but it's just aggravating. Especially when I have no idea how I got so sick so suddenly.

Weird...