I thought the sore throat and head cold was bad enough.

[Possibly TMI]That was before my intestines rebelled this weekend. I don’t know if it was eating way too much fast food in the past week, or stress over the new job and worry about all the driving I had to do this weekend, or if I ate something that didn’t agree with me, or my period screwing up my ( Read more... )

Went in for another blood draw this morning to check my cholesterol.

My blood pressure was 132/68. Not sure how to interpret that based on the chart. The systolic is a bit high, but the diastolic is a bit low? At any rate, I already know that I need to get back on the exercise wagon ( Read more... )

I had my annual physical today.

Still have a pulse.

Blood pressure is 124/78. (Still normal)

I'm still kicking.

And my doctor has gone from having black hair to being a blonde! Quelle surprise!

I've had a sore throat since Monday. Yesterday it was all I could do to keep my eyes open, so around 4:00 I took a nap. That pretty much turned into sleeping until 10:00 this morning.

I feel quite a bit better now. Clearly I've been fighting off something. I'm just not sure what, as the scratchy throat has been my only symptom. No stuffy ( Read more... )

Since the temperatures have plummeted the past couple of days, I’ve been waking up with a horrible case of cotton mouth because the furnace has been running so much. Mouth breathing, ugh. So I finally broke out the humidifiers yesterday. One for the bedroom and one in the kitchen.

I can already tell they’re making a difference. So much better!

After a couple nights of Nyquil, my nose is feeling much clearer. I let myself slug about and read all weekend (Still re-reading Lord Peter Wimsey). But today I'm sorely lacking in any get-up-and-go ( Read more... )

I have so much stuff I needed to try to get done today. And zero energy to do it. Luckily my job interview was before my nose decided to completely plug up. But as soon as I got in the car at the end of it, I could feel this cold coming on. I stopped at the grocery store on the way home and picked up more chicken soup and some orange juice. ( Read more... )

And I also read this yesterday when a friend linked to it over on Facebook. Which made me even happier that I took this summer off.

Allergic to America - I had to move away because life in the US was making me ill ( Read more... )

I'm sick again. Bugger it all. I was hoping the epic nap Wednesday was enough to head it off at the pass. But I woke up feeling pretty gross on Friday so I bagged out on my trip to Military Through the Ages (MTA) down in Jamestown this weekend. Sadly, it looks like I made the right call to stay home ( Read more... )

Nothing quite like a 17 hour nap when you're feeling sick ( Read more... )