My sickness

A few years ago, I remember that was in1998 when I worked in my hometown, I had a heavy cold.
At the beginning of the cold, I had a headache and musleache. Then I started to have high fever. My temperature reached 39 degrees. I felt dizzy and was very cold. I put two sets of quilts on my body but I always felt cold. I ate some medicine, which was similar to panadol, to decrease my body's temperature, but I failed. At the beginning, the temperature was controlled not to increase, but the time in which the temperature was kept normal was very short. Soon, I had high fever again. Like this, I battled with the disease for a week. I lay in bed for a week.I didn't feel like eating anything, I just ate some congee. When I stopped to have fever, I was very weak.
I think my cold was caused by the influenza virus, but at that time there was no particular medicine to fight this virus. But now there is a sort of medicine to fight it. If I have it again, I should take it to treat this disease,I'm sure I won't be tormented for a long time as last time.