Sick again
Well I had two good days it seems of feeling better from being sick and from being on george.
I was on antibiotics from Friday, January 16th til Tuesday, January 20th. I got george on Monday, January 19th, which lasted til Friday, January 23rd. The pain however was over a day earlier, on Thursday.
So I had manic energy and felt great on Friday, January 23rd and Saturday, January 24th. My husband and I hung out with two friends on Friday, and hung out with 14 people for a birthday dinner on Saturday.
By Saturday morning, my throat was scratchy, and I chalked it up to having been around all the cigarette smoke on Friday.
(Sidenote: my gods, if I can’t handle the cigarette smoke blowing back in from a balcony from one person, I’m going to DIE in the U.K. on our honeymoon!)
However, by Sunday, I had a continuous runny nose, sneezing, and yellow sinus gunk all over again. What the hell!
I checked LiveJournal on Sunday and found out that a friend I’d sat next to the night before? She’d come down with the stomach flu.
She posted on LiveJournal on Monday that her entire family was now barfing several times and miserable from the stomach flu.
Last night, I got home from work after a full day of sneezing, runny nose, fatigue and baby watching, and just went to bed. I slept from about 7:45pm - 5:45am.
I just asked my friends who I saw on Friday if they’ve been sick - nope - they say they feel fine.
So because I already had a scratchy throat before even seeing my friends at dinner Saturday night, my re-infection probably happened via my workplace (the mother, the father, the baby or all three) or via my husband as a carrier (either through his workplace or through his bandmates).
It likely wasn’t helped by sitting next to a friend with developing flu, or across from another friend who still has a huge hacking cough and was on her 2nd round with pink eye that night…
Last possibility: I never had a bacterial sinus infection at all - and the antibiotics were useless - and this is just a continuation of what I already had.
SEE? THIS is why I need competent doctors to give thorough examination of me to rule out what I do and don’t have, instead of looking at me from across a room and declaring whether or not I have whichever illness!!! GAH.
In any case, my current symptoms:
- Sneezing
- alternating runny/stuffed nose
- small dry cough
- yellow phlegm
- headache that comes and goes
- eye pain and light sensitivity
- clogged ears again
- major fatigue
Many of my friends have had this virus since Thanksgiving. That’s two months!!!
I hate winter.