Stupid Cold
So, I get this cold...and I am trying to ignore it and go to work and pretend I'm not sick because, well, I can't take another day off without getting on "the list". They allow us to be out 4 times (no limit on days) in a rolling year. So I was out in September, December and January. I don't actually remember why I was out in September. Well, anyway, yea...aside from that, I am not really allowed to get sick because it's not like I get a break at home, either. And I'm trying to train for a 5k and ugh, anyway, getting sick was not supposed to happen.
Yet, here I am. Sick. And apparently this cold was worse than I thought because just going up and down the stairs makes me tired/heart racing/light headed. It's one of those head cold/upper respiratory deals.
On Thursday I took 12 hour cough medicine. When I got home from work (7 hours after taking cough meds) I took cold meds because I was stuffy, not realizing it shared an ingredient with the cough meds. For whatever reason, not even 2 hours later I had a bad reaction. And after 3 hours of nausea and vomiting and writing it off as food poisoning, I went to bed, only to wake up at 1:30am feeling sick again. Off to the ER we went...of course by that time the meds were working their way out of my system but I still felt like I was on a constant adrenaline rush. Awful and exhausted.
Yesterday, I spent the day trying to recover. And today I'm spending the day trying to get better.
I really want to take something for my symptoms but I am so afraid of experiencing the same symptoms as Thursday night that I'd rather sit here foggy and stuffy and in control of how I feel that feeling like my skin is going to catch on fire and my heart is going to leap out of my chest.
So it's a minor set back right now but I am going to take my time getting myself back into good health so I can continue my journey. I hate feeling this way.
Yet, here I am. Sick. And apparently this cold was worse than I thought because just going up and down the stairs makes me tired/heart racing/light headed. It's one of those head cold/upper respiratory deals.
On Thursday I took 12 hour cough medicine. When I got home from work (7 hours after taking cough meds) I took cold meds because I was stuffy, not realizing it shared an ingredient with the cough meds. For whatever reason, not even 2 hours later I had a bad reaction. And after 3 hours of nausea and vomiting and writing it off as food poisoning, I went to bed, only to wake up at 1:30am feeling sick again. Off to the ER we went...of course by that time the meds were working their way out of my system but I still felt like I was on a constant adrenaline rush. Awful and exhausted.
Yesterday, I spent the day trying to recover. And today I'm spending the day trying to get better.
I really want to take something for my symptoms but I am so afraid of experiencing the same symptoms as Thursday night that I'd rather sit here foggy and stuffy and in control of how I feel that feeling like my skin is going to catch on fire and my heart is going to leap out of my chest.
So it's a minor set back right now but I am going to take my time getting myself back into good health so I can continue my journey. I hate feeling this way.
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