Day 6 sick Hannah

miss you, my dear. how are you?

I finally finished my work part of this trip in Frankfurt, and I am on my train to Hamburg right now as I write. But I also finally fell sick, since this morning :(

I was already feeling quite lightheaded when I arrived at the venue after checking out from the hotel. But today, Stanley (Vincent’s dad) was coming to visit, and I also had to have a meeting with Coca Cola (yes, very random), so I had to stay even I was starting to feel really dizzy. When I got introduced to Stanley when he arrived, I was actually very very unwell that I felt like falling on the floor and passing out, luckily I didn’t.

I think there was a lot of reasons that I felt so sick. It’s been very tiring to attend the show with a lot of heavy lifting during setup and then walking around in the past 6 days. Then I haven’t been resting really well because of my jetlag and my mental state, I think it triggered my Minere’s disease that made me feel really dizzy. But also, I think the air quality of the venue is really bad where I could constantly smell second hand smoke even indoor, and I have been stuck there for 6 days. So now, I am just so glad that I am out of the place and finally can have some alone time and rest.

But on the other side, I think this experience of getting sick when travelling alone made me realise my growth in taking care of myself. Since I was starting to feel sick, I already knew what to do to make myself feel better or prevent myself from getting worse. For example, I’ve got my warm water bottle with me all the time so that I could get warm water to drink. I also have some pills with me including for my drowsiness and my chinese medicine that helps me feel better. And thanks to Jojo, I took some strepsils so that I could at least talk in meetings. And before I got on my train, I bought some warm soup and bread at Pret for myself. When I was planning my trip, I also knew I would need a lot of rest after the trad show, so I booked a nicer hotel in Hamburg that is close to the station too.

So don’t worry about Hannah :) I think I will feel better after resting in the next few days. I might not be able to explore Hamburg much but I don’t really mind, because I think rest is really more important to me now both physically and mentally.

Miss you dear 🤍

Here is me this morning, I was already a bit sick and I looked ugly 😢

Me on the train right now :)