I just couldn't get out of bed. Hello,
this is Jack from tofluency.com and this
English lesson is going to give you some
fantastic listening practice and you're
also going to learn words and phrases
related to sickness. Yesterday, I had to
cancel my live lesson. If you don't know,
I go live on YouYube every Wednesday at
1-:30 but i had to cancel
yesterday's lesson because i couldn't
get out of bed. I knew I was coming down
with something on Tuesday night
because I started to get a stomachache
and I had really low energy and normally
I'm full of energy and when I start to get
low energy, I know something is going to
happen. And then, on Wednesday, I woke up
with a fever. I knew i was sick. I tried
to get up but I felt really weak - my legs
felt weak i had a headache, I had a sore
back, and I just felt really hot and
sick, you know, that feeling when you're
just sick and you know you're sick. So, I
canceled the lesson and I just thought,
okay, I have to get better.
What's really surprising is that today I
feel great. In fact, i had a nap in the
afternoon, i woke up really sweaty.
I woke up - I was wet through - I was so
sweaty, but I felt so much better. I had
about two or three hours after taking
some painkillers and I just felt so much
better, and I wasn't sure if I was going
to wake up fully recovered today but
luckily, I have. I'm still a little bit warm but
generally I feel great and I've got lots
of energy. But while i was in bed
yesterday,
it reminded me of the time I got typhoid.
That's right, I got typhoid, probably, in Colombia but maybe in Ecuador.
Now, I had just spent about 10 days in Colombia. I went
back to the hostel - the language school -
where I was staying and within about a
day or two I just started to feel
terrible. I remember it was a Wednesday
it was a Wednesday evening and we were
watching film and I just started to feel
ill - I just started to feel sick - so it
was about 7 30 and i said: I have to go
to bed, I just feel terrible. I went to
bed and then, for the next 48 hours, I
stayed in bed or I was sick or I had a
little bit of water and I had other
symptoms as well, but I just felt
terrible. I felt awful and I couldn't get
out of that bed for about 48 hours. So, then
I talked to the hostel owner and I said:
listen, I need help.
I don't know what's wrong with me, you
know, my friends didn't know where I was.
They thought i had left the hospital
because I was in my room all this time.
But I needed help so I went to the
hospital.
We found a doctor who could speak really
good English because my Spanish at that
time was terrible and she ran some tests -
she did some tests and she said: okay,
we're not a hundred percent certain but
I'm very positive that you have typhoid.
It's important to know that before my trip
I had some shots. I had some vaccines but
apparently, as the doctor explained, they
don't give you a hundred percent
coverage so, in my case, they didn't
really help because I got typhoid. So, I
was prescribed some antibiotics and it
took me about two weeks before I had the
energy to do anything really. I just
stayed in the hostel, I Skyped my then
girlfriend who is now my wife and in a
strange way me getting typhoid is one of
the big reasons why we are still
together because it meant that I wasn't
traveling on my own doing other things.
We had just met in the language school
in that hostel a few weeks earlier and
because I was so sick she was concerned
which meant that we talked on skype
which meant that we kept our
relationship going.
But anyway, I lost so much weight during
this time
and a friend came to visit me in Peru, so,
about two three weeks after getting
typhoid and after recovering, I went to
Peru. But I had lost so much weight and I was so
hungry. I remember ordering just plain
pasta - huge bowls of pasta - and eating the
entire bowl and then getting something else and
then something else, so, I ate so much
during the two or three weeks in Peru
and then after that time, I actually went
back to visit Kate in and Athens, Georgia
where she was at the time, and she didn't
recognize me when I came off the
airplane, she didn't recognize who I was
because I had lost so much weight. But 10
days in America - eating burgers, drinking
some beer, really helped me.
Luckily, I didn't really get sick in a
big way again for the rest of my travels
in South America but getting Typhoid was
was bad. I'm just really grateful that I
managed to find the hospital and a doctor
who could help me overcome this sickness
and that it didn't affect me too badly.
I have used a lot of words and phrases
related sickness in this video and have
listed those in the description below.
I'll also list some of the grammar that I
used in this video too because I talked
about the past a lot so there'll be some
past tenses and some present tenses in
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