Really, this past two weeks.
I ended the last one with a stomach bug, and the bug seems to have revisited me a bit this week. Plus, I had a debilitating migraine on Monday afternoon, which came on as I was driving home in the above freak snowstorm that came out of nowhere and dropped 3″ of snow on my car in a couple of hours. I couldn’t even get up to my mom’s to pick up H, the roads were so bad. So she had a Nana sleepover while I spent almost an hour making my normally 15 minute drive home.
I turned 35 yesterday. I had all kinds of plans to pick H up from school and head into the city for fabric shopping at City Quilter, a trip to Books of Wonder to get this year’s Caldecott books, and maybe a stop at Marimekko to investigate a new raincoat for her.
But this was me instead.
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I have an ear infection, a cold, and a really unpleasant feeling cough. So I’m having trouble typing, let alone thinking. Will try to be back tomorrow with good stuff.
My allergies have turned into a full-on viral episode. So I’ve basically been home in bed since Friday afternoon. Fun! And tomorrow is my wedding anniversary. Adam has some super secret thing planned for tomorrow night, so I’m just hoping I’ll be up for it. Back to sleep for now.
And I’m so disappointed. I’ve been having a horrendous week with allergies: headaches, itchy eyes, congestion, etc. Then yesterday afternoon a sore throat set in all of a sudden, and this morning it was even worse. I thought I had strep throat, but a trip to the doctor confirmed it was just a really bad allergy attack. But, I’ve been in no shape to prep food for a party, and now a cough has started. So, definitely not the weekend for hosting.
It has been a rough week. I woke up with a sore throat the day we left DR, and that turned into a burning, itching feeling in my chest and ears, and that turned into an ear infection, sinus infection, and a very nasty cough. I went in to work on Monday, but I’ve been out since then and still have a mild fever. I hate, absolutely HATE, missing work. And I miss it a lot because I’m an asthmatic globe trotter who works with small children and library books. This combination means I pick up every germ that comes down the pipe, and I’m exposed to lots of them. Just once I’d like to finish out a year with an abundance of sick days left, rather than worrying and scrambling to have enough to make it through. It doesn’t help my professional self esteem, no matter how hard I work when I’m there.
I’ve been hit AGAIN by some kind of bug. Not as bad as the flu-to-end-all-flus back in January, but I haven’t had much to say this week since I’ve been walking around like a zombie. I was home sick today, and I’ve literally been asleep for the better part of 24 hours. Much needed, and I’m starting to feel human again, but my brain is still trying to jumpstart itself. I haven’t really been very creative or energetic this week, but hopefully that will end soon now that I’ve completed some marathon sleeping. Seriously, if sleeping was an Olympic sport I would at least have qualified for the bronze this week. Now if only I could get rid of this cough before venturing back out into the world tomorrow….
I had a stomach bug for about a week after New Year’s, which I chalked up to just a travelers’ thing. Didn’t keep me from work, went to the doctor and did what I was supposed to do. And by last weekend I felt better. Then suddenly a week ago (Monday) after school, I just felt like I’d hit a brick wall. Headaches, muscle aches, and just general exhaustion. By Tuesday I thought it was a sinus infection. By Wednesday I had a cough and worried that I might be getting bronchitis. By Friday when I got to the doctor I had a slight fever and she thought it sounded like the flu. I thought the stomach bug must have just worn down my resistence to things, since I’ve had ALL my flu shots (including H1N1). I’ve been following doctor’s orders and trying to take it easy this weekend while at the same time getting ready to go back to work tomorrow. But last night my muscles started going haywire. Charlie horses, spasms, and pain all through my legs, arms, and even my chest. This happened once before and it was a potassium deficiency, so I’ve started eating bananas like crazy. But today I just feel as bad as I did when I first stayed home from work last Tuesday. I’m achy, exhausted, still a little sniffly, and my chest still feels a little tight. So I’m waiting to hear back from the doctor again today, and I don’t know what I’ll be doing about work tomorrow. I couldn’t even get myself to work right now, let alone be in charge of a library full of kids. My brain, however, has serious cabin fever.