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Fixing My Sleep Patterns — Day 6
Some nights you sleep eight hours, some nights you’re sick to your bone.
Note: You can read day 5 here.
It’s 7:24 in the morning, and I had a terrible night. I don’t know what precisely happened to my body yesterday, but I have a pretty good guess.
My colleagues and I went to lunch yesterday and had a pretty good meal only that my coke tasted funny. To my surprise, it was past its expiry date, and I drank almost half a can. It tasted like gum or plastic. I never ate plastic, but that’s what it felt like in my mouth — an unnatural taste.
I didn’t feel bad at first. But later on, during that day, I started coughing. Those were wet coughs. I thought I might be relapsing my virus from last week (I was sick for my entire holiday vacation — what a way to celebrate), but it wasn’t that. I didn’t have a running nose.
And finally, yesterday night, I had goosebumps, and I was genuinely cold. I finally was able to sleep after I took two pills, and used another bed sheet because I didn’t have a blanket at the ready. That was around 1 AM.
So, if we’re counting actual sleep time, I probably had around six hours.
Here’s my daily selfie:
