QUARANTINE - ISOLATION

The inside information of what it's like to have H1N1. Well, it's not me really, my boyfriend Popoy was found to have one. Yikes! Quite a scare for most people, but not really so much for us.
So it started with popoy getting fever thursday... he had to take a leave by friday, since his coughing is incessant. He called me up saturday at 3pm, almost hallucinating... chillz, and he talks nonsense murmuring. that was the most scary part. The next day, i made him come over my house so atleast, i can look after him, he ate well, drank paracetamol, we even went to the doctor to have him checked. They didn't think it was h1, only cough so he was given something for his throat. He didn't have fever anymore by sunday, and we were even able to watch a movie (taking of pelham 123). Monday, he found out that some of his officemates were found POSITIVE. that's when the company made him take the test, so he went to the hospital, took the swab test and he was asked to take tamiflu medicine. Quarantined for 7 days alone in his room (he only has a big room for an apartment) talk about solitary confinement almost. thank goodness for tv and the internet (yup, this notebook lived with him hence the delayed post). Waiting anxiously for the result. It came 4 days later. POSITIVE. Yikes! I didn't tell anyone until he's recovered. Everybody was like, 'you're so brave you still come and see him' Well i guess that's when you love someone. You risk it. He has no family here in Manila. I'm his family, so I bring him groceries and food every other day. Ofcourse we we're cautious, we both were wearing masks, we sanitized our hands, he changed sheets often, we didn't dip or drink each others food. So now, I'm not sick. And I hope not to be :)
Yesterday, he was cleared. It was great. He was back to his normal self, and you could see the exhiliration in his face when finally he is able to go out.
So many things happened in between last week... emotionally for both of us. The quarantine period - this trial- showed the worst and best in our relationshiop.
I found out that the 'sickness' isn't really what's eating a sick person, sometimes, it's how others treat them.
anyway, am glad. I wish the media here in the Phils will not make so much of this virus, I mean seriously OVER KILL.
I still hope the numbers will get low now... quarantine - or ISOLATION isn't such a nice thought!