Posted by Rebecca Mon, 17 Dec 2007 04:29:00 GMT
4 boxes of kleenex (with lotion!)
6 quarts of saline nasal rinse
1 box of saltine crackers
2 sick days (off work)
2 missed Christmas parties
4 cans of chicken noodle soup
1/2 bottle of chloraseptic
1 bottle of robitussin
1/2 bottle of prescription antibiotics
2 doctor visits
1 missed church service/sunday school class
3 missed days of exercise
7 dvds
A lot of advil
1 sinus infection.
Posted by Rebecca Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:20:00 GMT
I am sick again. For the umpteenth time this year.
This could be for any of the following reasons:
1) De-stressed. I often get sick after an enormous stressor is removed from my life. I turned my final paper in last Friday, so school stress has been removed from my life until mid-January.
And there was much rejoicing.
2) I played too hard on Saturday. After spending the better part of an entire day climbing, I then went to Marci’s house and spent an entire evening doing laundry ( our machine was broken at the time, but now we have a new one - yay! ) and baking/making candy. I didn’t get home until nearly 1 AM.
3) Weather change. We had a stupid cold front come in again and the temperature dropped about 30 degrees in about 2 hours on Sunday. This always messes with my head and I tend to get a little icky from it.
4) That professor who came to work with a raging cold last week. She had no choice, it was the last week of class, but did she have to cough in my face and cough on her hands and then use the hands she just coughed on to open the door to my office? Every one touches that door. Including me.
5) Any combination of the above.
Today I’m a little better. My throat doesn’t hurt as bad and my head feels like it is at least attached to my body. But do I really want to be here?
Do I really need to answer that question for you? No? I didn’t think so.
Posted by Rebecca Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:23:00 GMT
I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired.
I’ve done what I can to take care of myself this semester…I’ve rested when I needed rest, relaxed and given myself permission to not be perfect, I’ve started exercising irregularly (which is better than before, when I wasn’t exercising at all) and I’ve worked hard to eat better, which overall has worked well save a few recent binges.
I’m on allergy medication to prevent myself from becoming needlessly sick, and my stomach is back to normal after a year of battling duodenitis and heartburn.
Yesterday though, my head and limbs started feeling heavy, I got a tiny sore throat and a pounding headache.
Lat night I was up until nearly 3 AM with a fever and I finally got up and set the A/C three degrees lower because the temperature in my apartment was ridiculous. My pillow and sheets were drenched with sweat and that kind of sleeping environment wasn’t pleasant to crawl back into.
I had to send another email message to my people at work and to my professor letting them know that yet again, I wouldn’t be in today. I’m out of sick days and have stated eating into my vacation time, which is depressing, but there it is.
This year has been plagued with fatigue and illness, and I’m very much ready for it to be over. Maybe next year will be better. I certainly hope so.
Posted by Rebecca Sun, 11 Nov 2007 21:49:00 GMT
I can’t decide if I feel icky today because of allergies ( for those of you who don’t know, Austin is notorious for high pollen and mold counts, resulting in a populations where almost everyone has allergies), a cold that I’ve noticed has been going around that I might be getting (I hope not), or exhaustion from having cleaned out my closet yesterday.
My headache is coming back, the one I got rid of in church this morning while drinking contraband tea (we are not supposed to take food and drinks into the sanctuary but my head was pounding from the lack of caffeine, so I took a mug of tea in with me), and I can’t tell if I’m just thirsty, or if I inhaled too much dust while cleaning, or if I have a sore throat.
I now need to take a load of stuff down to my car so I can take it took goodwill and to my storage unit. However I don’t want to move.
I’d rather stay here and play Sid Meier’s Pirates (it’s an awesome PC game which I run on the windows side (which I only use for gaming) of my macbook) or watch some Jane Austen flick for the umpteenth time, or sleep.
I can’t believe tomorrow is already Monday. Is it me or are weekends shrinking in size? I can’t wait for the four-day weekend of Thanksgiving to get here. I need a break.
That being said, I think I’m going to load up my car before I fall asleep. I can always take my crap to the storage place later, but I”m sure my roommates would love it if I’d get my junk out of the living room. Then I can laze around and try to partake in some relaxation this weekend.