I Swear I Am Not Missing…

Hello, all!

I know that it seems as though I fell off of the planet in these last handful of weeks. After the rebound headache fiasco, things got crazy at work (Halloween is our busiest season), and then I caught the flu at work.

Did you know that this year’s flu shot is only effective against 10% of the flu strands this year?

I learned it the hard way. Ugh… I work within coughing/sneezing distance of people (mostly children who are still learning the “Batman Sneeze” and all), and a majority of my coworkers were sick…so…yeah…I guess I was doomed.

I had a pretty strong feeling that I was getting a sinus infection (again, I am so used to what those feel like that I sometimes go to the doctor too early and they can’t be 100% certain that is the issue…whoops), but I was still doing okay. I take Zinc twice every day as part of my usual medication routine, and my daily B-Complex pill has Vitamin C in it.

What can possibly go wrong?

Well, I had my Cast Service Celebration at work (party!!!), and I felt really run down the next day. Meh, I was probably overtired from all the fun. No biggie. I have some coffee with a yummy breakfast.

I start to feel worse. I get home and just settle down and take it easy with a cup of Echinacea Plus tea. I go to bed early, and I wake up feeling a little more refreshed. I go to work and my voice starts failing not too long into my shift, and then I start feel exponentially worse over the next few hours. I am able to switch out times with a coworker, and I go home early and go straight to bed.

Then, the fevers started…Needless to say that since the second of this month, I have been sick. Flu, then ear and sinus infections joined the party, and I wasn’t responding to the meds, so it developed into pneumonia and landed me in the hospital for a week. I only just got home yesterday now that I don’t need IV antibiotics anymore, and I still have weeks of recovery and breathing treatments ahead of me. Joy.

I did have a few migraines in the hospital, but they were triggered by lights and lack of sleep (my IV antibiotics came at 3 and 4 in the morning…one nurse accidentally hit the “all lights on” button and blinded me into a painful wakefulness…).

I do have some good news, though! Since the rebound fiasco, my attacks have lessened quite a bit! Yay!!

Thanks for reading!

I try to make hospital life cute.

💖Hearts and Sparkles!💖

“I’m not dead, yet!” ~ Monty Python and the Holy Grail