We're Off To A Not So Good Start

This new year is starting off with a bang at our house...we're all SICK! As a matter of fact, I hear my husband throwing up in the bathroom down the hall as I type this. Poor guy.

I woke up New Year's Day with a stuffy nose and a headache but thought it was maybe from having run the air conditioning in the hotel room all night. By the end of the day I was dragging.

I didn't get out of bed at all yesterday...too sick, and with a migraine to top it off. I did go into the kitchen at 12:05 am this morning to get some NyQuil, thinking it might lull me to sleep. Nope. I watched the sun rise.

The good news is that I only usually get good and sick once a year. Maybe this will be it for the year then huh!?!

The bad news is that I still have my Christmas tree up!

I'm In a Fog!

Wednesday - Jake had surgery. We drove home; there was nothing we could do during this time

Thursday - Linda worked

Friday - Linda drove 6 hours roundtrip to visit Jake

Saturday - Linda worked
Linda sick
Howard drove 6 hours roundtrip to visit Jake

Sunday - Linda drove 6 hours roundtrip to visit Jake
Linda sick
Linda received a telephone call from blogging buddy Mandi who lives in AUSTRALIA inquiring about Jake's progress. (Mandi, your call meant the world to me...THANK YOU! It was wonderful talking to you and getting to know you better.)

Monday - Linda worked
Linda sick

Tuesday - Linda to work again
Linda to vote
Howard driving 6 hours roundtrip to visit Jake
Linda needing to finish 30 welcome bags and decorations for 15 tables for this weekend's campout that LINDA AND HUBBY are in charge of! Linda and Jake staying home from campout!

Wednesday - Linda will make 6 hour roundtrip again

All I can say is...STOP THIS MERRY-GO-ROUND. I WANT TO GET OFF! If I had the chance, I think I could sleep for a week straight!

Little Less Sickness...

Just a quick note to thank you for your sweet words of concern about my being sick and the state of my bedside table.

Antibiotics certainly do a body good...and day by day, I'm feeling better. Now if I could just get rid of this very annoying cough I'd be back in business.

My co-workers are still reeling from the shock that I called in sick on Thursday. In the five years I've been at my job, I've NEVER called in sick or even been late...not once. Yes, ok, ok, I do have a tendency to follow rules a bit. I never even ditched school on senior ditch day! Didn't want to ruin that perfect attendance either! I don't know what to tell ya except that it drives my family nuts sometimes...and I don't have a clue as to why!?!

Sickness...

Yep...I've been a little under the weather for the last 2 days. This is what the table next to my bed has looked like since yesterday.


It started with a cough on Tuesday (the kind of cough that makes you feel like your chest is on fire because it burns so bad) and progressed to a sore throat, body aches, headache, fever, and chills. Today I went to the urgent care, then to the pharmacy for some antibiotic relief. I'm sure things will be much better tomorrow. It'll have to be better because I've got to work tomorrow!

Sidenote: Good thing we have insurance. The pharmacist told my husband that each of my five little pills would have cost $35.00...yes EACH, if we had not had insurance coverage. Lucky for us we have good insurance. My heart goes out to those who for whatever reason do not have insurance. Our healthcare system needs a whole lota work...and I can say it because I work in it!!