Being Sick Sucks. Wednesday Update.
Sep. 27th, 2023 12:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerAs I continue steady progress posting from my backlog about our hiking trip in North Carolina you might think that everything's great right now. I'm in nature, I'm having fun hiking, I'm surrounded by beauty. Life is wonderful, right? Alas, that's from several days ago. Right now, as in Wednesday 9/27, I'm back home and back to work. But that's not the bad part. The bad part is that since getting home Sunday evening I've been sick. And being sick sucks.
Late Saturday night, while we were still in North Carolina, is when I started having trouble. At first I thought it was a mild reaction to something I'd eaten at dinner. I had some heaves and I was awake half the night. Basically from 3am onward I didn't sleep.
Sunday afternoon it was obvious that what I had was something like a head cold, not a stomach bug. Though maybe I did have a stomach issue Saturday night and got over it just in time for the cold-like symptoms to start. 🙄 I took a Covid test at home (yes, we still have a few from last time they were free) and ruled out Covid. It was just a cold. I went to bed Sunday evening unsure what shape I'd be in for work Monday morning... or the rest of the week.
Monday morning things weren't so bad. I mean, I was definitely sick, but with a few OTC meds and a hot shower (warm water and steam opens up the sinuses) I felt about 90%. That continued through midday before I started flagging. Around 2pm it started getting harder to focus, I was sneezing more, and a cough started asserting itself. Meds only helped so much.
It's kind of a pattern I've noticed with cold symptoms that I can mitigate them well in the morning but not as much later in the day. Perhaps it's that my body has reduced energy when fighting a cold and tires by mid-afternoon. I nuked a few Hot Pockets for dinner, watched a 30 minute streaming show with Hawk, then went to bed at 9pm.
Tuesday morning I woke up at 4am. Ugh! It's so frustrating to trying doing a good thing for your health by going to bed early, only for you body to decide 7 hours later, "Aight, I'm up now!" 😡 After that Monday was a repeat of Tuesday, with a few pills and a hot shower helping me feel 90% in the morning. My cough came back strong after 12, though, earlier than Monday. It seems I only get 8 hours at 90%, whenever those 8 hours start. By evening I barely cared about dinner (Hot Pockets again!) and played one round of Wingspan with Hawk before going to bed at 9pm again.
Wednesday morning I slept in 'til 6. Yay, catching up on sleep! Once again my cold symptoms are milder in the morning. I wonder if maybe I'm turning the corner on this cold! Or maybe I'll get worse in the afternoon again. 😞 I'll know in a few hours.
Late Saturday night, while we were still in North Carolina, is when I started having trouble. At first I thought it was a mild reaction to something I'd eaten at dinner. I had some heaves and I was awake half the night. Basically from 3am onward I didn't sleep.
Sunday afternoon it was obvious that what I had was something like a head cold, not a stomach bug. Though maybe I did have a stomach issue Saturday night and got over it just in time for the cold-like symptoms to start. 🙄 I took a Covid test at home (yes, we still have a few from last time they were free) and ruled out Covid. It was just a cold. I went to bed Sunday evening unsure what shape I'd be in for work Monday morning... or the rest of the week.
Monday morning things weren't so bad. I mean, I was definitely sick, but with a few OTC meds and a hot shower (warm water and steam opens up the sinuses) I felt about 90%. That continued through midday before I started flagging. Around 2pm it started getting harder to focus, I was sneezing more, and a cough started asserting itself. Meds only helped so much.
It's kind of a pattern I've noticed with cold symptoms that I can mitigate them well in the morning but not as much later in the day. Perhaps it's that my body has reduced energy when fighting a cold and tires by mid-afternoon. I nuked a few Hot Pockets for dinner, watched a 30 minute streaming show with Hawk, then went to bed at 9pm.
Tuesday morning I woke up at 4am. Ugh! It's so frustrating to trying doing a good thing for your health by going to bed early, only for you body to decide 7 hours later, "Aight, I'm up now!" 😡 After that Monday was a repeat of Tuesday, with a few pills and a hot shower helping me feel 90% in the morning. My cough came back strong after 12, though, earlier than Monday. It seems I only get 8 hours at 90%, whenever those 8 hours start. By evening I barely cared about dinner (Hot Pockets again!) and played one round of Wingspan with Hawk before going to bed at 9pm again.
Wednesday morning I slept in 'til 6. Yay, catching up on sleep! Once again my cold symptoms are milder in the morning. I wonder if maybe I'm turning the corner on this cold! Or maybe I'll get worse in the afternoon again. 😞 I'll know in a few hours.
