Health: Sick of being Sick!

Sorry it has been a while since I've written, but I have a bit of an excuse. I've been completely under the weather! My gosh! I haven't been this sick in almost ten years.

Last Thursday I went out to the Idle Rich Pub in Uptown for a Happy Hour. No big deal... ate dinner and was home by 9. When I woke up the next morning, I noticed my throat was hurting. In fact, I had drainage all night long - didn't sleep well.

Friday was a pretty chilly day. For those in Dallas, the weather "experts" had predicted snow/ice/fire/brimstone/etc. Of course, none of that happened. I could have worked from home, but I figured I'd go on into work (and avoid the dreaded "Weather Weanie" label). I didn't feel "great" all day, but I figured it was just the cold air.

When I got home, I knew something wasn't right. I popped the thermometer into my mouth and discovered I had 99.6 fever. Hmm... a few weeks ago, the same thing happened. I had "flu-like" symptoms and it took 2 days to shake my fever. I actually missed one day of work, too.

So, I figured "here we go again." Good thing it was Friday. If this was going to last 2 days, I was sure I'd be back at work by Monday.

Well, no dice. That night was miserable! I had fever over 100 degrees, so my dreams were-a-rockin' and my sheets were covered in sweat. I know... gross. But a few hours later, I'd awake with violent chills. This went on all night - hot and cold.

Saturday I never left the house. I drank a lot of juice, and then discovered my voice wasn't working. The drainage had given me a nice sore throat - and I sounded like a hoarse James Earl Jones! Of course, when I wasn't watching TV, I was sleeping... and of course, the description could best be described in the previous paragraph.

Saturday night was actually more of that same scene, too. It sure is nice to wake up in a pool of sweat... or shivering... and to discover, "Wow... my temperature is 101.5. That doesn't seem good."

Sunday morning I sent up the white flag. My temperature was raging, so I got on my computer and set up an appointment with Care Now. Have you ever been to one? My gosh... I HIGHLY recommend it!

Care Now allows for web check-in. What that means is you tell them your issues and hit the submit button. Within 20 minutes they call you to let you know they received your appointment, and they'll call you when they have a room available. For me, they said "in about 2 hours." So for the next 2 hours, instead of sitting in some disease-infested waiting room, I sat in my disease-infested living room watching "Deep Impact."

After I received the call that the room was available, off I went. When I arrived, I waited less than 5 minutes and then I was in my room. By the time I left, I had only been there 35 minutes at the max! That was awesome!

Diagnosis: Sinus infection that got into my lungs. Oh, and I have an ear infection.

I assumed having the antibiotic in my system around noon on Sunday that I'd be good to go on Monday. No such luck. I still had raging fever Sunday... Monday... and even Tuesday! Yep, I missed 2 days of work. My fever finally broke mid-afternoon on Tuesday.

I'm doing better now. In fact, my voice is back to normal and I haven't had a smidge of temperature since Tuesday. I'm still on the antibiotic for another 5 days. My only problem is a constant cough, but that should go away soon.

One benefit of 5 days of straight fever? I've lost 7 lbs. Shocking... I was surprised myself. I guess drinking a lot of tea and eating soup does the body good.

Or... maybe it's just I cooked myself and some things shrunk. Ha!