I praised myself for working a brutal month without getting sick. I thought I was out of the woods when I was asymptomatic all this past week ( Read more... )

I'm now ending day 6 of Snot-o-rama 2008 and after four days of zithromax, my sinuses (my left sided ones in particular) are producing snot at an alarming rate. I also now have a mild amount of pain over that sinus system. Thank goodness garbage day is Thursday or else the house would be overrun by used tissues. It's nasty. I can't remember ( Read more... )

In the last 36 hours, I have pwned an entire large box of Kleenex, drank about four liters of water, taken a bunch of Cold Relief tabs ("Cold Relief" my ass!), taken some zithromax (hooray for self-medicating!), and whined about 80 bajillion times ( Read more... )

Last night I went to bed with a mild sore throat and a bit of the dry-rot feeling in my left sinus. I owed it to not having had much water to drink all day ( Read more... )

I'm starting to get the suspicion that every time I get a week off, I'm going to be sick for half of it. Hoo-fuckin'-ray.

Steady yerselves: here comes the vacation recap!

( Sunday: A day of sleep )

We got back around 10 PM last night. I promptly went to bed. I came down with a head cold Tuesday at some point and the worst of it hit me this morning - my head is one big booger and I have an annoying cough to content with ( Read more... )

Currently feeling less dead. I stayed home from work today because when my alarm went off at 6 I realized I had barely slept a wink. My skin was on fire yet I was shivering. I ached from head to toe; I could feel where each of my ribs inserted on my spinal column and sternum. I called the ER and the chief resident. Luckily, there was someone ( Read more... )

Ugh. I'm going to find the kid who I saw last night who gave me the stomach bug and give it right back to him ( Read more... )

• I am DONE with NICU. There was a crash c-section at 6:30 this morning, just as we finished signout. When I go out, I go out big. The kid is fine and went to the regular nursery after four hours.
• This thing called "snow" can go far, far away. I'm hoping it doesn't impede my trip down the Thruway tomorrow to my old roommate's baby shower. I'll ( Read more... )

In this past week, I have gone from never having done an arterial stick to having done two and now feeling comfortable with doing them ( Read more... )