Dang I’ve been sick….

Of course our babies were in school not even a week before one of them came home sick. All summer we stay healthy, but the minute they start school, they bring home some of the nastiest cold, flu stuff.

This time, it was son who came home sick. He had this terrible cough and mentioned he felt as though liquid was running deep in his ear every once in a while. Since he had tubes put in his ears last March, him feeling anything down in his ears had me worried. So, instead of waiting, I just went ahead and made him an appointment. Usually, I try to get them healthy at home since doctors these days aren’t too keen on giving antibiotics unless you’ve been sick seven to ten days, but the ear thing had me worried. Doc agreed that with his history, we shouldn’t wait on giving him an antibiotic. That was on the 4th.

I’d been feeling lousy a day or so when I took son in, but figured I’d get some good rest over the weekend and feel better by Monday. Yeah, right. By Tuesday, I was so congested, I felt like I couldn’t get enough air in my lungs between all the crackling and wheezing. If I tried to get on the couch or in bed, laying down made me feel like I was suffocating. Talk about feeling panicked when it feels like you aren’t getting enough air…just an awful feeling.

Thursday I broke down and called my doc and they worked me in on Friday afternoon. He put me on that Z-pak antibiotic which is a five day course. This past Tuesday I finished it and was still sick. It said that it’d keep working even after you finished taking it, so even though husband kept telling me I needed to call the doc back I figured I’d wait a few more days and see if I started feeling any better.

Yesterday was a bad day. I took the babies to school, got home, put the dogs out and fixed my coffee. Thought I’d get online and check my email and read a few blogs, so once I got the dogs in, I sat down with my laptop in my lap. Somewhere between taking a sip of coffee and having a coughing fit – well, I’ll spare the gory details and just say that when all was said and done, my laptop, my chair (and my clothes) was covered in coffee from me and the cup.

GREAT start to the day. Just great start.

My laptop was soaked and dead. All my pictures from our trip – plus all the pictures I’d taken over the last two years were of course only saved on my laptop and thus – gone…. I’ve mentioned that I get teary easily when I’m sick – multiply that by 4 heh heh. Sick for over a week, unable to sleep anywhere but in my chair or I felt like I was suffocating, then getting sick and ruining my computer added up to SobFest 2008. That did wonders for my congestion as you can imagine heh heh.

Thankfully, after fooling with the computer off and on yesterday, I was able to get it restarted last night. The keys were sticking here and there when I first started typing this, but they seem to have loosened up now. I took all my pictures last night and burned them onto a CD though, in case I couldn’t get the computer restarted again. So thankfully, all my pictures are safe and sound now.

Whew…

This morning wasn’t much better, but the fact that I got sick in the bathroom instead of the living room was a plus. I don’t know what it is about this cough, but somehow it flips my stomach and the puking is on. There’s no getting to the bathroom or anything when it happens unless I’m right there to begin with. This morning I was just lucky due to the fact of just having let the dogs out the back door and the bathroom is right there next to it…

So, there you go. I’ve not done anything in almost two weeks except sleep in my chair when I could. We have new carpet coming on October 3rd. Husband decided he didn’t want hardwood floors in the living room with area rugs, he’d rather have wall to wall carpeting since this is the room we spend most of our time in. I’ve got to get this living room painted before the 3rd…and with me being sick, the project hasn’t even been started. I’m hoping this weekend I’ll be feeling a lot better and can get a lot done. No way I want to paint this room after they put in the new carpet…I’m too messy of a painter for that to even be an option lol.

Hope everyone is having a great September!!