So Tired

I have been home from work for the last week sick.  I guess it’s “just a cold” but it came with fevers, migraines, a slight ear infection and the sahara desert for a throat.  As the symptoms are slowly subsiding (after two weeks), the throat is still the worst.  I am able to control the cough during the day (more or less) but at night, it’s uncontrollable.  Whether it’s the fact that my throat gets more dry, or laying on my back causes all the “stuff” to move around my lungs.  Either way – I’m done.  I have slept for the last ten days in fits and starts at best.  Now I wake up with violent coughing fits (surprised I haven’t thrown my back out or cracked a rib) that cause me to get up and move to the living room couch.  For whatever reason, I can sit on the couch with my head high and control the cough.  I think that there’s a conspiracy amongst the drug companies to make the oral cough medications as vile as possible – and no I haven’t tried Buckleys.  I’ve subjected myself to endless hours of mindless tv this way.  I’ve even watched shows I never knew existed.  I would have liked to have done more on the computer, but that took too much effort (formulating thought and thinking).  I was forced to leave the house a few times and realized quickly that I wasn’t 100% yet.

Of course today I then read of two outbreaks of flu and get to read all about the coming pandemic!  No I’m pretty sure I don’t have swine flu and I haven’t been to Mexico!  I’m just sick.  I’m still blaming it on the prairie winds but that’s another story!  I think I’m allergic to being too far from the mountains and the ocean.  It’s frustrating, I feel as though I just lost a week of my life that I will never get back and I didn’t do anything.  I always hope/pray for spare time to do things, and here I had a week (sort of) and got absolutely nothing done.

The one thing that came out of all this…I am now totally addicted to Twitter and well on my way to mastering Joomla.