ugh >_<;
At around 2am Wednesday I woke up with one hell of a puffed up tonsil on my left side. It didn't dawn on me that I was getting sick, so I didn't bother taking anything. Yeah, come 7am boths sides were puffed out, my nose was slightly stuffy, and I had one hell of a head cold (that shit really makes me miserable)... joy! I spent nearly the entire day sleeping.... I don't think I've done that since that time in 2004 when I was the sickest I'd ever been in my life (incase you're wondering, that's what happens when you're sick already and then decide to say fuck it and go out to see Voltaire and Thou Shalt Not). I had some cold pills left over from the last time I was sick that my acupuncturist gave me (Gan Mao Ling), so I started to take those on wedsnesday and they lasted until Thursday morning. Wednesday night, I barely slept at all.. It was bad. Whenever I did manage to sleep, I'd have these dreams that just confused the fuck out of me (which I can only cryptically describe as "google meets the iPhone"), and honestly it made me not want to go back to sleep! I finally got up somewhere between 6 and 7 am feeling not that great. My head was still very achey from the head cold, and my tonsils were still puffy, and my nose was still runny, and ugh.. I didn't have much of a voice left, so I had to cancel my health counseling session with Bunny that was scheduled to happen at 11. Thankfully, I was already scheduled to see my Acupuncturist at 2:30 that day and I simply could not wait cause I was tired of feeling like hell.
When I saw my acupuncturist, she asked me how I was doing; I responded with an "ugh!". I explained everything to her and so she gave me treatment for my cold as well as the pain in my right ankle and the left-over pain in my left pinky from the hand and wrist pain I was having now almost a month ago. She also gave me 2 different pills: Gan Mao Ling, and Pharmanex's Immune Formula. I'm not quite sure as to what I did the rest of the day, but I know I wasn't exactly a happy camper. That night of course I didn't sleep well, and the only times I did get to sleep, I had crazy weird dreams. I tried using a vaporizer (no Rafael, that's not a futuristic gun) in hopes of creating more moisture in the air and thus being able to sleep better. By 4am, I got the feeling that it was just making things worse, so I unplugged the damned thing and went back to sleep (ha!). I woke up sometime between 6 and 7am and I still felt horrid. I have been living off of softer foods like oatmeal and cream of wheat because of my giant ass tonsils and also because I really didn't want to prepare anything.
Friday I mostly just watched TV (which goes to show how sick I was. I watch maybe an hour of TV a week; okay, now two hours because of the next Man Vs Wild season :D), played Dragon Quest 8, and barely touched my computer (?!). This has been the primary cycle for the past few days because I just want to lay down and relax. Saturday I watched Drive Me Crazy and I really liked it and that got me to download (and watch on Sunday) The Girl Next Door, which was hillarious. Like the previous days, I got no good sleep on Saturday and come 4am, I got tired of waking up every 2 hours feeling worse, so I just stayed the hell up. Sunday I was determined to get a good night's sleep for once. I asked my mom to get some of this inhalent stuff that goes with the vaporizer and later in the day I went to Whole Foods to pick up more cough drops, some nice all natural couch medicine, dinner (teriyaki salmon, baked mac n cheese, and chipolte mashed potatoes... eating that made me so happy!), and a few magazines (Natural Health, Self Dishes, and Healthy Cooking; I love magazines. If I had time to read them all, I'd subscribe to like 20 different ones lol). Since I've been on this teen-movie kick lately, I tuned in to the broadcast of Not Another Teen Movie, and it's crazy how much stuff they had to edit out (I've never seen the original). At around 9ish, I was starting to feel horrid, and that usually means it's time for bed.
At first, it was very difficult to get to sleep. I couldn't stop coughing... and coughing... and coughing. I noticed that when I would leave my room that the coughing would stop. My mother wanted to blame this on dust mites or anything relating to my room not being clean and vacuumed every week, but I wasn't buying it. I tried laying on the floor and that was better but then that turned into a problem. Finally I figured it out: when air is blowing on me, I cough like hell. I turned off the overhead fan and pointed my airconditioner away from my bed and then layed down at the foot of my bed and that was a lot better! I am happy to say that last night I didn't have any wacky dreams that made me not want to go back to sleep, and I mostly slept pretty well. I would usually be asleep for 4 hour intervals, and after waking up my throat would be very irritated and I'd feel icky, so I'd need to sit up for a bit and take some more cough medicine and drink water and such. I was actually able to sleep in some today, instead of just getting up because I didn't want to go back to sleep. While my mother was still up, I asked her if she could copy some stuff from two of my books. Lindsey's sister just had a baby and I'd like to give her a copy of the pediatric chapter of one of my favorite books: Healing With Whole Foods: Asian Traditions and Modern Nutrition. I know she's giving the kid formula and that's not good. Formula does not contain GLA like breast milk and that's a very crucial piece of nutrition for the development of children. It's really sad that Pediatricians don't understand this very basic fact. I think I will also give her a copy of the documentary Vaccines - The Risks, The Benefits, The Choices, so long as the quality is good (I'm downloading it right now). I'm tired of seeing people get sick or die because of the lies put out by the AMA, FDA, and USDA, and I'm going to do everything I can to put a stop to it.
The rest of today, I'll most likely just watch TV or play DQ8. I am starting to feel better, but progress is slow. I it should pick up after I see my acupuncturist tomorrow.
When I saw my acupuncturist, she asked me how I was doing; I responded with an "ugh!". I explained everything to her and so she gave me treatment for my cold as well as the pain in my right ankle and the left-over pain in my left pinky from the hand and wrist pain I was having now almost a month ago. She also gave me 2 different pills: Gan Mao Ling, and Pharmanex's Immune Formula. I'm not quite sure as to what I did the rest of the day, but I know I wasn't exactly a happy camper. That night of course I didn't sleep well, and the only times I did get to sleep, I had crazy weird dreams. I tried using a vaporizer (no Rafael, that's not a futuristic gun) in hopes of creating more moisture in the air and thus being able to sleep better. By 4am, I got the feeling that it was just making things worse, so I unplugged the damned thing and went back to sleep (ha!). I woke up sometime between 6 and 7am and I still felt horrid. I have been living off of softer foods like oatmeal and cream of wheat because of my giant ass tonsils and also because I really didn't want to prepare anything.
Friday I mostly just watched TV (which goes to show how sick I was. I watch maybe an hour of TV a week; okay, now two hours because of the next Man Vs Wild season :D), played Dragon Quest 8, and barely touched my computer (?!). This has been the primary cycle for the past few days because I just want to lay down and relax. Saturday I watched Drive Me Crazy and I really liked it and that got me to download (and watch on Sunday) The Girl Next Door, which was hillarious. Like the previous days, I got no good sleep on Saturday and come 4am, I got tired of waking up every 2 hours feeling worse, so I just stayed the hell up. Sunday I was determined to get a good night's sleep for once. I asked my mom to get some of this inhalent stuff that goes with the vaporizer and later in the day I went to Whole Foods to pick up more cough drops, some nice all natural couch medicine, dinner (teriyaki salmon, baked mac n cheese, and chipolte mashed potatoes... eating that made me so happy!), and a few magazines (Natural Health, Self Dishes, and Healthy Cooking; I love magazines. If I had time to read them all, I'd subscribe to like 20 different ones lol). Since I've been on this teen-movie kick lately, I tuned in to the broadcast of Not Another Teen Movie, and it's crazy how much stuff they had to edit out (I've never seen the original). At around 9ish, I was starting to feel horrid, and that usually means it's time for bed.
At first, it was very difficult to get to sleep. I couldn't stop coughing... and coughing... and coughing. I noticed that when I would leave my room that the coughing would stop. My mother wanted to blame this on dust mites or anything relating to my room not being clean and vacuumed every week, but I wasn't buying it. I tried laying on the floor and that was better but then that turned into a problem. Finally I figured it out: when air is blowing on me, I cough like hell. I turned off the overhead fan and pointed my airconditioner away from my bed and then layed down at the foot of my bed and that was a lot better! I am happy to say that last night I didn't have any wacky dreams that made me not want to go back to sleep, and I mostly slept pretty well. I would usually be asleep for 4 hour intervals, and after waking up my throat would be very irritated and I'd feel icky, so I'd need to sit up for a bit and take some more cough medicine and drink water and such. I was actually able to sleep in some today, instead of just getting up because I didn't want to go back to sleep. While my mother was still up, I asked her if she could copy some stuff from two of my books. Lindsey's sister just had a baby and I'd like to give her a copy of the pediatric chapter of one of my favorite books: Healing With Whole Foods: Asian Traditions and Modern Nutrition. I know she's giving the kid formula and that's not good. Formula does not contain GLA like breast milk and that's a very crucial piece of nutrition for the development of children. It's really sad that Pediatricians don't understand this very basic fact. I think I will also give her a copy of the documentary Vaccines - The Risks, The Benefits, The Choices, so long as the quality is good (I'm downloading it right now). I'm tired of seeing people get sick or die because of the lies put out by the AMA, FDA, and USDA, and I'm going to do everything I can to put a stop to it.
The rest of today, I'll most likely just watch TV or play DQ8. I am starting to feel better, but progress is slow. I it should pick up after I see my acupuncturist tomorrow.