Being Sick is No Fun

Especially when you get a cold when it is still 90 degrees outside. I hate that. You don't even want to sit around and drink tea and eat soup because you are still sweating from running out to buy the soup. I was working on Tuesday night and around 3am started sneezing and sniffling and I thought it was just allergies, but I was wrong. I got home from work and laid in bed from 7am-9am just miserable and not able to fall asleep. Robin brought me from NyQuil and I was able to sleep fitfully for a few hours, but was up and on the couch by mid-afternoon. I knew I couldn't go into work that night because I couldn't risk getting any of our patients sick and I wasn't sure I could make it a full 12 hour shift anyway. So I called in and took permanent residence on the couch for the night. I was in and out of sleep due to the NyQuil. I was drinking gallons of water to try and stay hydrated and flush out my system. It was not a good night. I couldn't hear out of my ears or breathe through my nose. Finally around 5am, I went back to my bed and attempted to get some sleep there. Woke up feeling a little better, but still not 100%. Laid around for most of the day and then had to go babysit. I felt like I couldn't cancel because it was last minute and because I really needed the money since I had called in sick to work. So I babysat and then came home and tried to sleep without the aid of NyQuil. Unsuccessful. I was wide awake by 6am this morning and I am not feeling all that great today either. I am feeling better, just not myself yet. I just took a little nap and am planning on taking it easy the rest of the day so I can actually go back to work tomorrow night. I work the next 3 nights so I need to be rested and back up to normal before I try and do that.

Other than that, not a lot going on. Work, work, work...