Lok, I hope you don’t have MS. And specialist waiting times are ridiculous.
To sum up today, I had 3 strangers tell me I should be at home when I was ordering my morning coffee. What was left of my voice then sounded like a woman who’d been drinking scotch and chain-smoking for 60 years. Now I can’t even whisper. My royal fuckstick of a boss made me package up 1700 sheets of paper by myself into boxes that weigh well over 100lbs when full. When I was trying to move them I started having trouble breathing and felt like I was going to faint and throw up. So I emailed him and said that I was really really sick and need to go to the doctor NOW, and took off. The doc said I have a nice angry larynx AND sinus infection, and ordered me to stay home tomorrow with absolutely no talking, or it’s just going to get worse.
My turd-wrangling boss of course is doing his best to make me feel guilty. And I still have a lot of work to do with only 3 days left to get it done. I’m so frustrated that I had a cry earlier and that only made the swelling in my larynx worse. And to top it off my lizard Toby is dying and probably won’t live through tomorrow.
The upside to this is that I hear my boss’s boss tore him a new asshole for making me work when I was this sick.
I have a case of pinkeye that I’m getting over, and a nasty cold on top of that. If you want to read a graphic description of pinkeye, go look up my Thread of Suckness +5; I’d link to it but I’m lazy.
AFG, your boss sounds like quite a prize. It would be poetic if he ended up with a respiratory system full of goop just as you’re getting better. I, too, have been down with a respiratory infection, and they’re just no fun at all. At least I have extra holes drilled in my head (from my younger days) that help me cope.
Trunk, what is this “sun-light” of which you speak? The sky here has been grey, grey, grey for many a day. Of course, that’s normal for these parts.
I suppose I should be glad we don’t get snow around here, but there’s something odd about 80-degree weather and sun predicted for this week, including Christmas Day.
On another note, we’re all feeling much better here. Whew. It was a long siege.
Wednesday, the first day of No School for the kidlets, I was down with a Migraine that refused to go away and made me miss our Christmas Bowling Banquet.
Thursday I putz’d about the house getting stuff done and as I motivated in the afternoon to do something with the kids, my daughter suddenly pukes into the toilet…and it was down hill after that. By 2am, she has an ear infection and gets trotted to the clinic for meds.
Today was a recovery day and we waffled until the hour before time to depart for my side of the family’s Xmas clambake. ( Being as my mom is Old and my brother has a compromised immune system. ) We went because they both wanted us to.
Which was a nice evening and I then escaped to the Salvation Army to drop off and by more stuff, then to the book store and grocery store.
But, I fully expect more illness later on this week.
I git it the day before yesterday. It was either bad food from my 31st anniversary dinner or a germy customer at the bookstore. I can’t blame this one on the holiday music. That made me sick weeks ago.
As I clicked on this thread I was holding a cup of coffee against my ear, trying to relieve the intense pain of my annual Christmas ear infection. Something about this time, maybe the swing of hot to cold Memphis weather, I don’t know. This year I got a double shot- tonsillitis at Thanksgiving that lasted clear up until after my birthday, Dec. 12th. Now less than two weeks later with the ear pain!
Of course I can’t get an appointment until next week, so I’m googling up all kinds of home remedies. Vicks around the ear, hot towels, warm olive oil…anything!
But it’s nice to know I’m not alone. We used to say we had a Christmas curse in the family! All our family holiday photos the kids have red noses or dark circles under the eyes and someone has a hanky/tissue in one hand. We were safe for a few years, then my daughter was born and the cycle started up again. First Christmas we were in the ER because she had such a high fever due to an ear infection. Second year she had chicken pox…third came either scarlet fever or maybe measles.
Strangely it seems that we’re very healthy the rest of the year, so I guess I should be happy it only strikes when we’re already off work/school for the holidays.
Thanks, but I can’t really blame the specialists. They can only do so much and see so many people. The worst part right now is my family is all acting like I am suddenly going to break. :dubious: And I at least only have a cold right now, unlike several of you here on the thread.
I’ve got something, I don’t know what. It’s been on since last Thursday, and it’s not gone yet. It’s sapped my energy, and my head feels like it’s full of… something. I can’t think clearly, and all I want to do is sleep. Sometimes there are dizzy spells.
It sort of messed up the holiday preparations. All the things I was supposed to be doing, when instead, zzzzzzz
Well, let’s see. There was the Christmas I puked on my grandmother and a bunch of my new toys, the Christmas my dad got so sick he ended up in the ER, the Halloween I got food poisoning, the Christmas the entire family was down and out with the flu, my daughter’s 8th birthday on which she got sick and was unable to attend her own birthday party, and the Mother’s Day my husband and I both got food poisoning. You know, I think I detect a pattern here.
This year, my son woke up Thanksgiving morning with a fever and a horrific cough. By Friday night, he was coughing so hard he couldn’t keep anything down. We took him to Urgent Care on Saturday and ended up in the ER on Sunday, which resulted in a 4 day hospital stay due to pneumonia. Stoopid holiday germs-I think they are 50% evil-er on purpose this time of year. :mad:
But now it’s Christmas Eve and everyone’s well…so far… Cue ominous music
That’s exactly what I was thinking while reading this thread just now. It started Thursday evening as just a dry cough, but by last night it was a full-fledged cold. Any remaining doubts about the status of my health were dispelled upon waking up this morning and spending 20 minutes coughing and blowing my nose.
I definitely have it easier than a lot of you, though! Granted, the cough is kind of nasty (and it hurts), but I don’t feel like dying or anything. I’m tearing through the tissues but I can still breath through my nose, I can still taste food, I don’t have a sore throat, etc. And, so far, neither congestion nor coughing has kept me up at night (knock on all kinds of wood!). Still, I’m definitely sick, and I get to bring this with me tomorrow and infect my parents and my brother … Merry Christmas, family.
It started Thursday evening as just a dry cough, but by last night it was a full-fledged cold. Any remaining doubts about the status of my health were dispelled upon waking up this morning and spending 20 minutes coughing and blowing my nose.