Tuesday, September 14, 2004

A Million Bucks!

Yeah - that's me. I feel like A Million Bucks today! :D I sound horrible (like a man in drag!), but I feel grreeeeaaat - - for a change :p It's nice to be motivated again, get something accomplished, to be able to think straight - geez! LOL. The last three weeks have been pure torture, but I finally feel like I'm getting on the good side of this.

I'm even having a good hair day to top it all off ;)

After a round of antibiotics and a strong dose of steroids (DO NOT EVER take those if you can help it - ACK!), I ended up back in ER over the weekend and came home with 5 new prescriptions... none of which I could keep down. Back to the doctor yesterday - and then I slept almost 30 hours straight.

About those steroids... the doctor failed to mention they may make you PSYCHO. I had to send myself to my room more than once last week! I cried, and cried and cried. And it seemed to me that the tree's were trying to tell me something. Nuts, I tell you! I am SO glad to have that out of my system - whew.

Anyway, after my appointment yesterday (where I cried "please, please - I'm so sick of being sick!") they gave me something to keep me from being sick - so yes, that makes 6 bottles of meds now (ugh). The problem was that I couldnt swallow - at all. I could show you pictures but it would really gross you out - I'll save you the trauma. So I obviously couldnt eat. But I did try - after all, you cant take all these meds on an empty stomach, right? Right. Well, it took me over an hour to eat half a cup of chicken noodle soup. By the time I got that far, I was hungry all over again! Definitely a losing battle there. The doc said "quit trying to eat". She said "just take this, quit eating, swallow the pills, and go back to bed". So I did.

I woke up at 2:30 this morning shivering so hard my teeth were chattering in my head. I rolled over and fell back asleep. About an hour later I woke up drenched in sweat and got up to grab a glass of juice and take a lukewarm bath. Ahhh.

It's finally over. I think it's passed. I look at my precious 8yo daughter and wonder how in the world such a sweet and innocent little girl can carry such nasty germs home from school! Funny how she got over this bug in a measily 48 hours - as did my son and my grandmother. My daughter said to her brother, "I'm glad you got it cause that means it got out of me and into you" (hahahahaha).


posted by Lynn Terry @ 3:05 PM