Tag: Sick

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Is it true that your immune system does most of its heavy lifting while you are asleep?  Might that be why I have been so completely exhausted over the last couple of days?

I felt sleepy all day Saturday but for the most part I was okay.  Round about 10:00pm I was toast though.  I couldn’t keep my eyes open.  Last night I hit the wall at bout 7:30.  The four of us were all in the living room just hanging out together and I think I might have dozed off a couple of times.  That usually doesn’t happen.  I went to bed at 10:00 or so and was sound asleep by 10:30.  I woke up once in the night, briefly, at about 1:30 and then I was out again until the alarm went off at 5:00.  I know I hit the snooze a couple of times, but I don’t recall doing it five times.  However, I was up and out of bed at 5:50 after the fifth snooze.  I felt great.  I was wide awake and alert and loving it.

At 7:00 I was in the car with the kids, taking them to their Dad’s house before school.  At 7:20 I stopped at a gas station convenience store and picked up (ironically) a caffeine laden coca~cola.  I then started my long drive to work.

By the time I parked my car I was exhausted again.  Seven hours of good sleep gave me about 2.5 hours of full alertness.  Now I’m tired and groggy again.

Hopefully this is my body telling me to go to sleep so it can continue to kick the crap out of the eternally lingering illness.  I’m still coughing.  I’m still having bouts of stuffiness.  I’m still having bouts of runny nose.  I even had a killer headache yesterday.  I am ready for this crap to end, NOW.

Jen is still in the same boat.  She has the same symptoms she’s had for the last couple of week.  No change.

I want this to be over, right now.  I have been saying that for weeks though.

Weekend To Do List

I’m three hours and 39 minutes away from the weekend. This has been a hard fought week. Being the first full week in a while, thanks to holidays and sick days, it has seemed nearly endless. The end is in sight though.

There are a few things I want to get done this weekend. Here’s my list.

First: Do everything humanly possible to make my beautiful wife Jen feel better. She’s had three doctors look at her in the last eight days and still she doesn’t feel any better. I want so bad for her to get over this. I want my sweetie to be all better.

Second: Stop coughing all the time.

Third: Get a haircut ya hippie!

Forth: Take down the Christmas decorations. It’s time.

Fifth: Get the damn tire fixed.  It was time six months ago.

Sixth: I found out why the cat runs away anytime she gets caught in the cellar.  There is a little rug we have in front of the couch.  We very rarely sit on that couch, so this has been slipping past us for a while… but there are at least three places on the rug where little miss kitty lost her lunch.  That rug has got to go away now, bye bye.

Seventh: Does the cat have a similar hiding place in one of the closets?  I need to empty it and find out.

Eighth: Relax and enjoy a full weekend with the kids.

Hopefully I’ll get at least a couple of these items done this weekend.  We shall see.

Check Out What was Delivered Today

Rush, 2112 in 5.1 surround sound on blu ray.

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We now have 5.1 mixes of five albums. I hope Clockwork Angels comes out next.

Now if my beloved, beautiful bride could just stop feeling sick, we could go back to enjoying cool stuff instead of feeling crappy all the time.

The Black Plague: Day Twenty-One

It’s official.  The flu/cold/plague symptoms have now been with us for three full weeks.  Hoo-freakin’-Ray!

After visiting the emergency room last week, Jen was not seeing any improvement so she went to see her primary care.  He gave a better explanation of the situation and prescribed yet another new antibiotic (her fourth since this all started) and a steroid.  Nice.  My wife is going to smash the long ball, just like Barry Bonds!

I’m still congested.  I still have a cough.  Neither is as bad as it was three weeks ago, but they are all still sticking around.  I had a bit of a tough night sleeping last night.  The cough woke me up a couple of times.  Last week I thought I was 90% well.  Now I’ll put it at 70% well.  My health is currently getting a C-.

We are having a post-holiday, holiday party with Larry and Mike and families this weekend.  I am going to be well enough to go to that party, even if it kills me!  My health needs to be at least at a C+.  I can do it.  Hear that, immune system?  I have confidence that you can stop sucking just enough for me to spend an evening with my family and my friends all in the same place together.  You can do it, immune system.  You can do it!

Did you hear that hockey is coming back?  (yes, that was a sudden change of subject)  Baseball pitchers and catchers are less than two months away from reporting to spring training as well.  The days of no sports to watch but football (yawn) and basketball (zzz zzz zzz) are coming to an end.I am still furious with the NHL.  That is not going to go away.  When it comes to holding a grudge about pro sports labor disputes, I am the king.  I am still fuming over the 1981 baseball players strike.  Because of that stupid thing, the stats on my 1982 Topps baseball cards did not include 162 games for that season.  Dwight Evans only got to play something like 104 games.  That sucked and I’m still pissed.

Anyway, I think one of the reasons why I am so much more upset about this lockout than the last one (don’t get me wrong, I was steaming with rage last time too) is that last time I had an AHL team to distract me.  The Lowell Lock Monsters.  Eric Staal.  Chuck Kobasew (sp? sorry Chuck).  Damn, what a great team we had that year.  While everyone else was boiling over with rage about not having hockey, there were maybe one thousand or so people in the Greater Lowell area who had Monsters season tickets.  No, it was not the same as having the NHL, but it did keep our hockey minds occupied for that black hole of a season.

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I could have followed Worcester, or Providence this time, but I still have that old Lowell loyalty. Be it the Lock Monsters or the Devils that replaced them, I loved AHL hockey in Lowell. For the record, there was no way I would ever have followed Manchester. That would be like rooting for the Yankees in the Red Sox absence. It would never, ever happen. In fact, I talked to my gorgeous wife Jennifer about maybe going to a game in Manchester, but I made it clear I would be rooting for the visiting team.

Lock Monster hockey, it’s alive! (or at least it was back then when I needed it)

Sickness Continues for Both of Us

Yesterday I felt like dung.  Today I feel like dung again.  Sniffles, sneezing, lots of coughing, stuffy head, post nasal drip, all sorts of garbage like that.

Still, it doesn’t measure up to what we feared about my wife yesterday.

Jen has had a rough time with antibiotics lately.  After stopping her course of antibody number two, she had a nasty headache on Wednesday.  Yesterday evening it came back, along with some weird sensations on her face.  The emergency room was recommended by her doctor’s office.  It turned out to be just another mild illness piled on top of the other nastiness she’s been fighting off for three weeks or so.  She’s okay, just not feeling terribly well.

They took her out of the room to do some tests and I fought my nerves by playing with hipstamatic… as usual.

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I even took a creepy hipsta-selfie.
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Today we get to see how the new antibiotic goes.  Her work schedule is very full today, so I haven’t heard anything from her.  I sent her a “how ya feelin'” email, but no word yet.  I take that as a good thing.  If she were feeling sick she’d tell me.

I love her.

I adore her.

I want her to be feeling better.

 

 

January 3rd

Really, Mother Nature?  Really?  You’re dumping this crap on us today?

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My cold is back.  I suppose this is black plague day 13535236 or so.  This sick just won’t go away.  I am working from home today.  If I had to make the long drive in to the office I probably would have called in sick.  I am so tired of this.  Jen, my beautiful, beloved wife, was feeling awful again yesterday too.  She’s better today, but can we get a break please?  I would be grateful for a little stretch of time where I didn’t have a box of tissues glued to me.  This blows!  (pause as the narrator blows his nose… again)

The Black Plague: Day Seven

Hello, and welcome to the Christmas Eve edition of the Black Plague updates.

I feel about the same as yesterday.  I was up to about 80% well for a while yesterday afternoon, but then I started coughing again and my throat started to hurt.  It wasn’t a bacterial or viral kinda sore throat, more of a you’ve been coughing like crazy for a week and enough is enough kinda sore throat.

My beloved wife relapsed in a major way yesterday.  She went from almost all better on Saturday to sick in bed again on Sunday.  I hope she’s feeling a little better today.

Tomorrow is Christmas.  Let’s hope that this is all finished by then.

HoHoHo.

The Black Plague: Day Six

Am I finally on the mend?

For the first time since this whole mess started, I woke up feeling noticeably less congested today.  Finally, progress.  I’m still not breathing through my nose at 100%, more like 65% or so, but right now it is so much better than it was yesterday.  I’m still coughing with enough force to expel my lungs, but the fits seem to be coming less frequently.  We are not out of the woods yet, but I do feel much better.  Jen was feeling really well last night, but just before bed she got hit with a queasiness and relapsed a bit.  She too was better this morning though.

Christmas Eve is tomorrow.  Is this recovery a Christmas miracle?  It works for me!

HoHoHo!

The Black Plague: Day Five

Really? Still?

Day five is feeling pretty similar to day four. I suppose the congestion is slightly better, but as of last night the cough, which started this whole torture, is actually worse. I haven’t been sick like this in over 100 years. I mean, really? Five days and still this bad? Give me a fricken’ break, eh?

The Black Plague: Day Four

It continues…

I don’t feel any worse today, but I don’t really feel any better either.  Today was already scheduled as a vacation day so I didn’t have to call in to work or anything.  Jen is still in the same situation.  Sick, sick, and all kinds of sick.

We are having a Christmas Eve party and the house is a pit.  I need to clean every room.  We have a mountain of Christmas gifts that need wrapping.  We still actually need to go out and get gifts for two family members and my work grab.  We haven’t hung the stockings yet, we haven’t put out most of our decorations yet.  Urgh!

All that too do and all we want to do is go back to sleep.

This sucks.

Here’s hoping Day Five shows some improvement.