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Let’s see how long this one lasts…
So remember how I said I wasn’t feeling well and then I said I was feeling better? Well I was tricked. So evilly tricked.
I woke up Wednesday morning without the body aches and actually did feel better. So much so that I happily wore my contacts instead of my glasses to work. Well that good feeling lasted a few hours until I started to get warm to the touch and progressively grew warmer throughout the day. Then I started coughing and then my body started hurting all over again. I mean, really? This was a lot more than I had ever anticipated. So here I was, all warm [so warm that I didn’t even need to turn on the heater in my car like I normally do!] and no wanting to make any kind of movements and heaven forbid I had to cough…ugh, that hurt the most.
So when I woke up on Thursday suffering from more body aches and dizziness, I called in sick for the first time ever. I hadn’t felt that bad physically since I broke my butt snowboarding that first time. My mom was even shocked that I stayed home. But it was for the better. After calling in, or more aptly, emailing, I set to work on finishing up the written analysis for a case report, emailed it to the group members and went back to sleep. I slept off and on for the rest of the day but did start to feel a lot better. My mom made sure I had all the orange juice I needed and even made me a sandwich for lunch that I ended up finishing for dinner.
Even though I sounded like I had choked on death, I eventually felt well enough to truck it down to Target to pick up some cough medicine, tissues, cough drops and oatmeal. And wouldn’t you know that is the day I run into an old family friend? Of course. But it was great catching up with her regardless.
But yesterday was a much needed rest day. I’m glad I did take the day off to stay home though. I really needed that. And sleeping throughout the day kind of rocked too. I’m still taking it easy on the foods for now but hopefully I’ll be well enough to make it to Spanish Club tomorrow. I hope, I hope, I hope.
Anywho, my computer usage was sporadic during the day; on and off as I saw fit to nap. I had thought about uploading my pictures briefly and writing up a post about the muffins but then I wasn’t at all motivated to dig through my bag for my camera because that would have required me to lift my arm and quite frankly, that was too much of a burden to deal with.
Which makes it pretty hard to figure how I managed to lug my laptop from off the ground onto my bed huh? Well, it was only on the ground once during the day. Once I pulled it up to finish the case report, I just left it at the end of my bed and pretty much slept around it the rest of the day.
Tonight I have plans on making cupcakes for tomorrow’s Spanish Club meeting. I figure I might as well prepare as if I’m going for sure, like I did with work the past few days. Besides, if I don’t feel well enough to make it, at least I’ll have cupcakes!
Now that’s the definition of a “win-win” situation.
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