I woke up Monday morning fine. I thought life was going to be great. I would be recuperated, I could post some great blog entries about my trip to South Dakota, and I could catch up on miscellaneous things in my life. Turns out my body had a different plan.

After lunch on Monday, my body shut down. I could barely move, I had the shivers, and my body hurt all over. I was struck with a pretty intense fever. This is something my body does every now and then when I over exert myself, which is what happened the last three days on the rez (more stories to come later). But basically, my body handles the sleepless and strenuous circumstances for a time, but once I stop, my body says no more, and makes me bedridden.

I took my temperature and found that it was 101, definitely fever territory. But it boggles my mind. I understand that the body heats up when it is producing antibodies to fight infection, but I have a hard time grasping the fact that your immune system can be working so hard that it raises your temperature that much. It just makes me think that the immune system in my body is running a marathon causing the internal body temperature to skyrocket. So I'm sorry body, hopefully you can rest soon.