ftcmj (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} ftcmj) wrote,@ 2009-05-28 09:00:00 |
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OMG I'm sick
No wonder Carolina has been so miserable the last couple of weeks. Unfortunately now Dona Mari has it, too.
About a month ago, I was getting Zoe ready for bed, and pulled what looked like a little piece of string away from her eye. It was a thread of mucus. Later she complained that her eye was bothering her. By morning she had bad conjuncitivitis: the eye was swollen almost shut. Some drops from the pediatrician cleared that right up within a day or two. A few days later, C got conjuncitivitis in both eyes, and has had bad throat pain, especially at night, that has only gradually improved. Until last weekend, I seemed to have escaped getting sick.
Well. Sunday morning I was snipping some lavendar in the garden, and got the ball of my thumb in the way. The end of the pruning shears snipped 1 cm-long slit in my hand. It was pretty bloody. C helped me get cleaned up. I could see her medical training in how she did it--she scrubbed my whole arm, which was very dirty from gardening, before scrubbing the hand and then the wound. It was a pretty deep cut, and gets sore if I don't keep it covered with antibiotic. Anyway, since the morning, I had a slight sore throat, and thought I was probably coming down with something.
We went to Elaine and Michael's yard party at around 6:00. I had an 8:20 pm doctor's appointment at Nighttime Pediatrics for a tetanus booster. I had a great time at the party, especially once I got started talking to Ira, Elaine's dad. She keeps accusing me of being him; we're so alike. As I was driving to the doc's, I started feeling worse, and by the time the doctor arrived, I was feeling pretty awful. He told me he thought I was getting a cold, but a strep swab was negative. I got the shot, and started getting chills as I waited to pay. I felt so cold that I turned on the heater in the car, even though it was in the mid- to upper 70's outside. When I got home, getting out of the warm car, I had chills so violent I almost couldn't talk. C thought I was having a reaction to the vaccine, but Tylenol took care of it. Within a half hour the fever and chills had subsided. But while Carolina was complaining that it was too hot in the house, I was wearing sweats and a fleece, and still felt cold. It was weird.
The past three nights my throat has been so sore that it's hard to sleep. It reminds me of post-op tonsillectomy pain. Tylenol reduces the pain to just discomfort, but swallowing is still annoying. Yesterday I thought I was getting better, but this morning I awoke with both laryngitis and that damn pinkeye that Carolina and Zoe both had. So now I'm going to the doctor at three today.
Carolina has had a sore throat and symptoms, including slight conjunctivitis, coming and going for three weeks. I'm going to look into supplements and alternative immune system support to see if I can avoid being sick that long. Damn this sucks.
I've been googling pharyngitis conjunctivitis laryngitis and it seems we have an adenovirus. So immune support, whatever that may mean, seems to be the only option. Meanwhile I'm trying to get some work done.
The good news is, all this time at home has given me space to reinstall windows on my home machine. What a relief--it's like having a new computer. I'll probably install Ubuntu today if I feel up to it. Installations don't require much attention, just time.
No wonder Carolina has been so miserable the last couple of weeks. Unfortunately now Dona Mari has it, too.
About a month ago, I was getting Zoe ready for bed, and pulled what looked like a little piece of string away from her eye. It was a thread of mucus. Later she complained that her eye was bothering her. By morning she had bad conjuncitivitis: the eye was swollen almost shut. Some drops from the pediatrician cleared that right up within a day or two. A few days later, C got conjuncitivitis in both eyes, and has had bad throat pain, especially at night, that has only gradually improved. Until last weekend, I seemed to have escaped getting sick.
Well. Sunday morning I was snipping some lavendar in the garden, and got the ball of my thumb in the way. The end of the pruning shears snipped 1 cm-long slit in my hand. It was pretty bloody. C helped me get cleaned up. I could see her medical training in how she did it--she scrubbed my whole arm, which was very dirty from gardening, before scrubbing the hand and then the wound. It was a pretty deep cut, and gets sore if I don't keep it covered with antibiotic. Anyway, since the morning, I had a slight sore throat, and thought I was probably coming down with something.
We went to Elaine and Michael's yard party at around 6:00. I had an 8:20 pm doctor's appointment at Nighttime Pediatrics for a tetanus booster. I had a great time at the party, especially once I got started talking to Ira, Elaine's dad. She keeps accusing me of being him; we're so alike. As I was driving to the doc's, I started feeling worse, and by the time the doctor arrived, I was feeling pretty awful. He told me he thought I was getting a cold, but a strep swab was negative. I got the shot, and started getting chills as I waited to pay. I felt so cold that I turned on the heater in the car, even though it was in the mid- to upper 70's outside. When I got home, getting out of the warm car, I had chills so violent I almost couldn't talk. C thought I was having a reaction to the vaccine, but Tylenol took care of it. Within a half hour the fever and chills had subsided. But while Carolina was complaining that it was too hot in the house, I was wearing sweats and a fleece, and still felt cold. It was weird.
The past three nights my throat has been so sore that it's hard to sleep. It reminds me of post-op tonsillectomy pain. Tylenol reduces the pain to just discomfort, but swallowing is still annoying. Yesterday I thought I was getting better, but this morning I awoke with both laryngitis and that damn pinkeye that Carolina and Zoe both had. So now I'm going to the doctor at three today.
Carolina has had a sore throat and symptoms, including slight conjunctivitis, coming and going for three weeks. I'm going to look into supplements and alternative immune system support to see if I can avoid being sick that long. Damn this sucks.
I've been googling pharyngitis conjunctivitis laryngitis and it seems we have an adenovirus. So immune support, whatever that may mean, seems to be the only option. Meanwhile I'm trying to get some work done.
The good news is, all this time at home has given me space to reinstall windows on my home machine. What a relief--it's like having a new computer. I'll probably install Ubuntu today if I feel up to it. Installations don't require much attention, just time.
