| Monday, July 14, 2008 |
| Sick and tired of being sick and tired |
I thought that my string of illnesses would be behind me when we left India. In Bangalore it seemed like every time I turned around I was getting something... gastro-intestinal issues galore, colds, sinus infections, you name it. Then I was sick for the whole 9 months of my pregnancy. But I was sure that I would be so much better when we got back to the states.
As soon as we got back I got sick. I was down with some mega-intestinal thing on my second week of work and did not feel right for about 3 weeks after. Then I got a cold. Then I slept the wrong way and my neck was stiff for a week. But the crowning glory came this past week.
I woke up last tuesday and found that the whole right side of my face was swollen. Nice. My eye was watering uncontrollably and my face was tender. I went to an ophthalmologist near my office figuring I had a blocked tear duct, but he told me it was not my eye. Apparently I was suffering from a sinus infection. OK, fine. One or the other. No matter, right? He gave me a prescription for Augmentin and told me to follow up with an ENT.
Fast forward 2 days. My throat is ON FIRE. I have a violent headache. I think I have the sinus infection from hell, but I figure that the Augmentin will clear it up. I also start taking some OTC sinus relief stuff. And something for my throat.
By Saturday I am in agony. My husband looks in my throat and finds that my tonsils are covered in, well, shit. So I have to drag my ass to the emergency room, because we're now scared I have some step infection that is taking over my throat. I cannot wait until Monday so I get to fork over the big bucks to sit in hell in the ER In the end the friggin strep culture comes back negative, along with the mono test, so all I am left with is the information that I have a vicious viral throat infection and a prescription for Vicodin. And let me tell you, the Vidodin is barely strong enough to stop the pain in my throat.
So today I am still too sick to go to work. My throat feels like I have been swallowing thumb tacks, and the medicine makes me loopy. And I still have crazy sores all over my tonsils, so I am terrified they are abscessed and will need to come out.
Fuck all, can I catch a break please? |
posted by small squirrel @ 8:45 PM  |
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i hope you are feeling better, bella. i am thinking of you and miss our crazy emailing days! :)
hugs! xx.
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Oh my gosh, I hope your break comes soon. Hope you are feeling better. Poor thing.
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kimmy... much better now, thank you. I miss them too!
jawahara... thanks dear. am fine now. how's the novel coming along?
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This is what happens when you take an american, move her to India, put her in an apartment and marry her off to a Kannadiga Brahmin. Again, no one said it would be pretty. But it will be pretty funny.
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i hope you are feeling better, bella. i am thinking of you and miss our crazy emailing days! :)
hugs! xx.