sick AGAIN
I don't know what the problem is with me, but I am sick AGAIN. Just gotten over the hideous cold from last week, and now I have a stomach thing. Healthy Choice Baja Chicken apparently does not agree with me. I had it for lunch yesterday, and two hours later I had to leave work doubled over in pain. I cried all the way home, it hurt so much. Imagine the worst heartburn you ever had multiplied by a factor of 50. Pepcid had little effect. Finally Alka-Seltzer killed the pain enough for me to sleep a little, but I didn't go in until noon today because I was still feeling crappy. I might have felt better if I could have thrown up, but I have a phobia about that. If I can avoid it at all, I will, because it suffocates me while it's happening and I get panicky because I can't breathe.
I wouldn't have gone in to work at all today, but things are at crisis level right now at work. Now that the killer cold has made the rounds (did I mention that the staff was dropping like flies last week with the killer cold?), strep throat may be making an appearance among the staff. I had a bad feeling that there might be no other permanent staff there today, and I was right. One person was out with strep, another is out this week until Friday, the third left work early to get a strep test yesterday, and although her doctor has cleared her, she can't seem to shake the aftermath of the killer cold. So the only staff member on the patent side this morning was our temp. I was so glad I dragged myself in this afternoon. I was feeling only mildly ooky, and I managed to resolve a big deadline this afternoon, so it was a good day overall. There is a huge pile of files sitting in my office right now that is going nowhere, because I have no one to help me report the stuff out. We're sifting through to get the urgent things out, meeting the really hot docket deadlines, and just treading water until we can get more staff on board.
Shouldn't I be feeling better instead of worse? I cut my stress in half by dropping my circuits course. Why am I now getting slammed with the health issues? Ugh, I just want to stay home tomorrow, but it's not going to happen. Definitely Alka-Seltzer again before I go to bed tonight. I'd love to stay up and watch the rerun of "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip," but I need rest badly.
I wouldn't have gone in to work at all today, but things are at crisis level right now at work. Now that the killer cold has made the rounds (did I mention that the staff was dropping like flies last week with the killer cold?), strep throat may be making an appearance among the staff. I had a bad feeling that there might be no other permanent staff there today, and I was right. One person was out with strep, another is out this week until Friday, the third left work early to get a strep test yesterday, and although her doctor has cleared her, she can't seem to shake the aftermath of the killer cold. So the only staff member on the patent side this morning was our temp. I was so glad I dragged myself in this afternoon. I was feeling only mildly ooky, and I managed to resolve a big deadline this afternoon, so it was a good day overall. There is a huge pile of files sitting in my office right now that is going nowhere, because I have no one to help me report the stuff out. We're sifting through to get the urgent things out, meeting the really hot docket deadlines, and just treading water until we can get more staff on board.
Shouldn't I be feeling better instead of worse? I cut my stress in half by dropping my circuits course. Why am I now getting slammed with the health issues? Ugh, I just want to stay home tomorrow, but it's not going to happen. Definitely Alka-Seltzer again before I go to bed tonight. I'd love to stay up and watch the rerun of "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip," but I need rest badly.