Remember my Florida post and my near death experience at the end of the flight? (super dehydrated + sun poisoning+ brain aneurysm... or ya know- something like that :) Anywho, that's when I started feeling sick. The next day I felt better... but still had that "coming down with something" kinda feeling. By Friday (my birthday) I was feeling like barf. I popped all the tylenols and throat lozenges I could just to keep my head afloat. I DID have a good day (a GREAT day) it was just clouded by this sickness.
Monday evening is when it hit REALLY hard. Monday evening, I was begging for silence (aka "Ryan take the kids somewhere and shut my door") and meds.
This morning I woke up and my right eye was swollen and bloody. Seriously. WTH. I called the doc asap and they squeezed me in at 2:30. This posed a new problem: 2:30 is right smack dab in the middle of my kids naps. I was geared up for a cranky, stressful afternoon at the docs. Luckily, my mom saved the day (yes... all the way from FLORIDA!) and called a good friend of hers (ours) who came over and watched the kids, while I, got the pleasure of having the longest doc appointment ever.
I thought I had the typical "flu"-ya know, I wanted to check to make sure my eye wasn't going to fall out or anything, but I was fairly confident it was going to be an in and out appointment. Unfortunately, it wasn't. Remember Ryan's new job? I didn't. And I COMPLETELY forgot our new insurance stuff. Poo.
The front desk guy wasn't thrilled with me.
Once I finally got back there, I was weighed (WAHOOOOOOO...I am seriously SO SO SO CLOSE to my goal weight!!!!) and had my BP taken. Then the doc came in. I ran through my laundry list of your typical flu symptoms... he checked my ears, throat, nose, etc. Then I asked him to look at my eye. He kept pulling each lid down and inspecting each eyeball closely. The diagnosis? PINK EYE. EWWWWWW. Actually DOUBLE EWWWWW because I am POSITIVE my kids will get it. Unfortunately (fortunately?) the pink eye has nothing to do with my aches, fever, chills, sore throat. I got a strep test- negative. Did a urine sample (since I'm notorious for harboring UTI's) and then was sent down to the lab for blood work and a chest xray.
I guess I'll know the results from those tomorrow... I'm convinced its swine flu. Doc. Bigelow thinks otherwise... what does he know? :)
All that I'm sure of, is I'm sick. My head is pounding. I'm hot and clammy. My throat is on fire and I have an energy level of -20. My patience with my kids is nonexistent. My head cannot take the screaming, whining, pounding...
So the moral of this story... if you think you wash your hands a lot... wash them more. I am seriously an OCD hand washer- and there is something SO gross.... SO contagious, going around.
Wish me luck with tomorrow. Pray I don't have any crazy pneumonia or blood diseases...
If you need me, you can find me in pjs, wandering the house and gulping theraflu.
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