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The creeping crud hit home
Posted on Saturday, January 31 @ 08:04:49 CST by geekmom |
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Here at casa de GOAM, the creeping crud has hit me and hubby. It hit him two weeks ago, then hit me Tuesday morning. Symptoms have been fever and massive sinus and chest congestion. At the height of it, I started seriously wondering if it was possible to blow out one's own body weight of snot.
Yah, it's gross, but after 5 days of this, gross is what I have. It does seem to be on the downturn now, as I can be up and around without sounding like I'm hacking up a lung. The worst part of was actually the sore throat, and there is really nothing good for a sore throat, medicine-wise. In pain, I turned the internet and googled "throat on fire sore throat remedy". The results? Salt and water -- two of the most common things imaginable. Even better, it worked! A good salt water gargle, and I could breathe and swallow without wanting to cry.
Highlights from the week of "hack-hack-wheeeeeze!" include:
- Having to explain to multiple clients how my ill health impacts their projects. The upside of full-time employment = you only have to call in sick ONCE. Still not worth going back, but it is an upside.
- Dee asking me, "Don't cough on my moon sand, mommy! You'll make my moon sand sick!"
- Me tapping on Dee's door after her bedtime asking her "stay in bed and be quiet please"; followed by her banging on my door after an explosive coughing fit and asking me to "keep the noise down."
- Dee finally getting happy faces from school (after over a week of notes)
In other news, we got Dee's Tinkerbell video exchanged for a working copy and watched that about a bazillion times. I was not overly thrilled with the idea, figuring it would be more of Disney's "pretty pink princess" pablum that so aggravates me, but I also figured that being on cold meds might at least make it watchable.
I have to admit that I was quite pleasantly surprised. The theme was to follow your talent instead of trying to do what looked cool/fun/pretty. When we got to the end, I realized that, in the fairy world, Tinkerbell was a geek girl! That, plus some incredible music by Lorenna McKennitt (one of my favorite singers), made this a movie I actually enjoyed. Hopefully, it wasn't just the cold meds... ;-)
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