I did not get breakfast eaten at home this morning (I know).  Too much time coughing, trying to hack up a hairball or something.  Every couple of minutes while getting ready this morning I was stopped by a major coughing fit.  Damn cold.  Left me running late to get out the door although I still managed to get to work only a five minutes after 8am ( Read more... )

By Friday evening, after the crappy week I had last week, I got a cold.  Or a sinus thing.  Or the flu.  I'm not really sure what it is except that it has included aches and fever and snot, oh my!

I didn't make it to work yesterday*.  Fever.  We aren't supposed to come in when we have a fever or for 24 hours after.  I'm at work today, maybe a wee ( Read more... )

I'm at work.  I still feel kind of crappy but I kept down dinner last night (rice with some crumbled up turkey burger) so I decided to take the chance.  I also ate breakfast this morning (dry cereal) which so far has stayed with me.  I still feel a little nauseous and my gag reflex is on a short trigger (strong smells especially are making me gag) ( Read more... )

I think I ate something Monday evening that either was bad or really didn't agree with me.  Maybe the leaf lettuce on my turkey burger ( Read more... )

Better now although still under the weather.  Missed work Tuesday and Wednesday - Tuesday with a nice little fever and Wednesday basically feeling like crapola.  Seriously, I've been sick since last Thursday when the sore throat started.  Can has new body now?

I had my yearly physical at the doc's yesterday anyway so I asked her about the plague.  ( Read more... )

I just ate a rather large breakfast, much larger than I would normally eat during the week, because 1) I need to take the antibiotic and the mucinex with food or I get beyond queasy and 2) once I take the antibiotic and mucinex I likely won't eat much else the rest of the day because of the queasy.  Whatever I do eat will leave me rather quickly.  ( Read more... )

Well, the Christmas holiday season here in the US is over.  Now we are in the week of Manic Shopping the precedes everyone's favorite drinking holiday known as New Year's Eve.

OK, maybe not everyone gets drunk on December 31st but I know a lot of people that do (I am not one of them, thank you).

For Christmas this year I did...absolutely nothing.  ( Read more... )

I still have the plague but it seems to be loosening it's grip.  I've been able to sleep, which has helped immensely.  After missing two days of work I went back on Friday.  There was some speculation among my peers that maybe that wasn't such a good idea - I was a little loopy - usually followed by several work related questions, emails, and ( Read more... )

I fell asleep again around 5 am after another dose (OK, dose and a half) of Nyquil.  This time I slept - about five hours worth although not all at one time.  I woke around 7:30 with a coughing fit that had me up for a while.  Adding yet another pillow to the stack seemed to help though and when I finally got back to sleep I managed to stay that ( Read more... )

It is nearly 4:00 AM ( Read more... )