Xiaoniu 小妞

For the passed number of days I’ve been waking up hoping that today was the day I would start to feel more like myself and less like the sick bastard I really am. I hate being sick. I hate staying him on the couch/bed doing nothing. My mind goes to mush and I’m bored to no end.

Last Friday morning I figured out that I had gotten the flu and not an ordinary cold. I was very achy for a few days. It hurt to bend over to pick stuff up off the floor. It hurt to sit on the couch. I was miserable.

On Saturday I woke up after a restless night of sleep feeling a little less achy and a little less sick. On Sunday I woke up feeling great. Sleep induced by Nyqil made me feel like a new man. I took Tylenol at 9am and again at 2pm and nothing else. I got up and wrapped presents, went to the grocery store and even disinfected the entire house. Anything I touched or handled was cloroxed. Bathrooms were disinfected and completely scrubbed. I was feeling grand.

Today (Monday) I wake up feeling horrible. A pounding headache. A wife complaining that my snoring has taken on a whole new level of annoyance. She compared it to my snoring when sleeping on my back even though I was on my side all night. I got up and spent 40 minutes waiting for my headache to go away with no relent, popped some Tylenol and headed off to work.

I’ve spent the entire day at work in misery. I feel like I did on Friday minus the aches. A pounding headache regardless of the Tylenol and a cough to has gotten steadily worse since my miraculous healing on Sunday. Now I’m stuck wondering if I should have even come to work today (Monday). Wallow in my misery home alone or share my misery with folks at work and suffer for it worse. People have work have said to go home, but with an hour left in the day I just stayed.

Tuesday I’ll have to rethink coming in. Then again staying home more than three days requires a doctor’s note. Of course if I’m sick that long a trip to the doctor’s office is probably in order. Maybe I’ve been unlucky enough to have gotten over the flu and gained a cold. Damn.

This a bitch post. I’m not looking for sympathy. I’m just looking to complain.

Despite everything I’m suffering with my nephew is sick yet again. Over the weekend his eye started to water. Today (Monday) day care said it might be pink eye. They have it going around. Nice of them to tell the parents. Nobody knows anything unless your kid is catching it. Anywho, a trip to the doctor confirmed that he has pink eye and an ear infection. At least his pneumonia has all cleared up.