Walk In The Fire
So remember how I’ve been on and off sick for about 2 months now. How I’ve been feeling like I have a cold for 3-4 days, then I’m totally fine for 3-4 days and it just repeats itself endlessly? Remember how awesome that has been?
Well Thursday night it hit an all new low. Well, high. After having body aches all day, I came home, curled up, and was incredibly cold. Shivers, goosebumps, all that fun stuff. But of course it was really a fever, a fever of 103. Ugh. And when I woke up on Friday I still had a fever of 101. So my roommate/boyfriend/mom all convinced me to go to the doctor, who was all, uh, yeah, it’s a virus that is going around. And I was all, yeah, I figured you couldn’t do anything. And he was all, well, wait a minute…
So he gave me 2 prescriptions, one for codine cough medicine and one for high strength advil. Both of which make my stomach quite upset. So I’ve vomited more in the past 2 days then I have in a quite a while. But the good thing is that I’ve learned I can eat toast (and banana waffles!) and popsicles. And I’ve been pretty much sleeping non-stop and catching up on my watching of really awesome bad movies.
The doctor said 4-5 days of uninterrupted rest. Turn off the cell phone, all of that. Which, is like, so hard. I’m on day 3 right now, and I think I’ll give it a go one more day and take off Monday, but Tuesday I think I have to get back to work and school. Because, yikes, there’s only so much sleep one girl can take.
The other good thing is that I explained that the BF has been going through the same thing and we keep passing it, and I was all, uh, can I share the meds with him, so the MD gave a HUGE supply of both. And really, there is no one else I’d rather be cooped up with 4 days in a codeine haze. We haven’t killed each other yet, so I think that’s a good thing.
So because I’m actually semi-lucid right now and it’s Sunday, I’m also going to turn this into a Simple Sunday. The really simple pleasure of sleeping away an entire weekend. So rare and so amazing.
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mmmmmm. codeine haze.
hope you’re feeling better.
So maybe I should resubscribe to your feed? Reader hasn’t been picking it up, and I’ve missed all these terrific posts!
I’m glad that you’ve got drugs and sleep to make you feel better; that it’s getting warm there; that school is almost over (you may be sad, but I’m jealous…); and that you’re starting to get good fruit (when it gets really warm (I think I remember what that’s like…), pretty much all I feel like eating is fruit and iced tea and popsicles)!