A tough week

Last weeks return to training could not have gone better. We had two sessions which involved plenty of cardio and sparring at the end of class. For me I pushed pretty hard to see were I was at and to my surprise I felt I hadn't lost to much fitness with my time on the sidelines.
That was reassuring and nice to know that the training I have been doing at the gym was keeping me in touch.
By the end of last week I noticed a slight sore throat so I took my regular anti cold / flu vitamins and thought nothing of it. The weekend went by without concern but come Monday I felt like I had caught that cold. Usually I would train through and try and sweat it out though this time I elected rest.
Anyway it didn't make any difference because from this point things have not been good. The past few days I've been bed ridden with fever and terribly sick. Everything I had hoped to do this week hasn't eventuated with my public holiday spent in bed watching movies.
I cant understand how I got so sick, especially seeing it's meant to be summer at the moment. I do feel like I've been cheated out of my day off with not being able to do anything really constructive but realistically there's probably not much else I could have done other than go to the doctor, something I prefer not to do.
In any case today I felt on the up and therefore really wanted to burn the little energy I had and get the heart pumping, so I went to training.
It is always really hard the first night back after being so sick and I knew what to expect. Lack of energy, oxygen, feeling light headed and general nausea. Most people would probably say rest another week but I find that the exercise speeds up the recovery. Its a shock to the body because of the long hours spent laying down resting. It reminds me of the time immediately after the bike accident when the nurses injected me daily in in the stomach with a needle. It wasn't exactly a nice experience because I had little body fat at that stage. Curiosity got to me so when I asked what it was for, I was told that your blood thickens when you are inactive (ie laying down doing absolutely nothing all day). I was also told the moment I start walking around the injections would soon stop (that pain was plenty of incentive so I was telling the nurses I'd be up and running round the block in no time!)
So most important thing about getting through tonight is next time I train I will feel ten times better.