Sick

Stupid Cold

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I am fighting a stupid cold this weekend. I haven’t gotten totally sick but I feel crapy enough with the soar throat and itchy ears. I can’t describe the ear discomfort in any other way but itchy. I have been taking Tylenol Cold and Zicam for a few days. I haven’t gotten that much worse, but I haven’t gotten better either. I am not sure if that is good or bad.

I stayed in this weekend with the hopes of resting. I didn’t do much resting, but that was the plan. Right now I am tired and just not able to nap. I am doing a load of laundry, and not happy that I have another load I probably should do after this one is done.

Drinks & Dinner Was a Bad Idea

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Last night I meet up with Danny & Anthony for some drinks and food. I knew I shouldn’t go out since I have felt like I have been coming down with something all week, but I didn’t listen to myself. I had a good time, but I probably should have stayed in. My throat now is not feeling good at all. I also had a horrible night sleep. I am staying in today to try and rest up. I am not horrible yet but not so happy either. I have already taken more Zinc, and some Tylenol. Hopefully I can kill this before it gets worse.

My Crazy Week

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I have been off the grid so to speak for a week. It was a really not fun week. I want to write about it a little, but I also need to keep in mind this is a publicly visible site. Lets just say I had the biggest medical scare in my entire life. I am fine, really but if what happened to me happened to a friend I wouldn’t believe them. It all started with some dizziness, and ended with a hospital stay. All I can say is you cannot get any sleep in a hospital. I felt worse when I left than when I got there.

I really want to write more about what is going on, but reality is I have said enough publicly. This is the perfect example of this blog not being an accurate representation of my life since I almost didn’t mention this key event at all. I would rather stick to more uplifting topics. On the possitive note I would have gone crazy without my iPhone to read stuff and listen to music while I was away from home. I guess that means I wasn’t really off the grid, but I didn’t check work email for a full week so maybe it does count.

Highlights from the week, and observations:

• ER the show might not be that accurate about the medical procedures they perform (or so my dad says) but the controlled chaos of the ER is well portrayed. While I was in the ER a fight broke out between two patients. It was interesting to say the least.

• Do they really have to wake you every few hours to take your temp and blood pressure? Probably yes, but it really sucks when you are trying to sleep.

• MRI’s are really loud even when you have ear plugs and head phones for music in your ears

• Some of the die they gave me for a scan made me feel like my hands were on fire.

• The entire hospital is dependent on the transport staff to move people around. The reason things take so long is because said staff is really slow either because they are slow or overworked. The operations side of me observed that. Also you don’t hold staff meetings for an entire shift that everyone depends on at the same time. You break it up. Again my ops side talking.

I am off to continue my resting before I am back to work tomorrow.

The Free Day, Well Sort Of

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Todays schedule at work looked great for me. I only had one meeting scheduled compared to about 7 yesterday. I figured great let me get in some reading in to get me up to speed on what is going on. Well, I was able to do some reading in the AM, but I got sucked into a few items related to some projects my team is working on. Then we had some impromptu meetings, and the next thing I know the day was gone. I kind of like it like that, so it was good to keep things interesting!

My travel plans for St. Louis are finally squared away today. I wont go into details on the blog but I am going out to meet people from my team, and do some work for a few days. I am excited, I think it will be an interesting trip.

I have a bad feeling I might feel the beginnings of a cold. I went to the drugstore on the way home and loaded up on cold prevention stuff. Zycam rocks. Tomorrow I have meetings from 8:30 onward, and then I am going for cocktails afterwards so it will be a long day. I am not planning on doing much drinking just in case I am not being a hypochondriac and I am really coming down with something. Unfortunately I am usually good at reading the warning signs of a cold.

The Do Nothing Weekend

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My plans for this weekend are very simple, I am to do nothing. I am happy to report that as of noon Sunday I am successful in that mission. My goal is to stay in and kick the remnants of my cold so I am fresh and normal for next week. I may have stayed in, but the cold is not 100% gone yet. I am coughing a little, that is actually a new development. My noise is still slightly stuffed up, but better than before. My throat is still slightly soar. An improvement over last week yes, but I am still not my normal self yet.

I missed my nephews birthday party yesterday due to this cold. As much as I am upset that I missed it, I am glad I didn’t have to do all that traveling to get there. That and there would be tons of kids over, and I don’t want to get anyone else sick. Instead I sat around and watched allot of TV. I have all but cleaned out my backlog of things to watch on my Tivo and Apple TV.

It is weird to think that it was 95 degrees out yesterday and currently 93 degrees outside when I am cool and comfortable with the AC on low in my apartment. I will say this, my current apartment stays cool. In my last two apartments before this without AC on high the place would be sweltering with the temperature in the 90’s outside. When I woke up this morning my living room was a bit warm but not completely unlivable when the AC was off for more than 12 hours. There is allot to be said for that!

I am not sure what the agenda holds for today, but probably more of the same lying around letting the meds kill my cold. Maybe I will get some more writing in this afternoon if I am in the mood.

Dinner With The Family

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Today I was back at work but still felt like crap. I did feel better than I did yesterday but I was really tired and stuffed up. Other than that the day at work was uneventful. I was originally planning to go out by my parents to have dinner with them and my sister who was visiting. It turned out that the weather wasn’t so great so my mom, sister, and the kids didn’t goto the beach. That was a win for me since they wouldn’t be rushing to travel home from the beach to eat, they decided to come by my neighborhood to a restaurant. I was thankful since it would have been a trek for me to get to them, and I was out of it. Sometimes relying on mass transit sucks, this was one of those times.

We ended up going to the crap house by my place. I had crab cakes. It was good, but I would have appreciated the food more if I wasn’t sick. I did get to see my parents and my niece and nephew (my sister too). They are so cute. I know I say that allot, and most people say that about relatives, but they always put a smile on my face when I see them. I wish they kept their distance from me because I didn’t want to give them anything, but my sister wasn’t worried. Morgan, and I shared a piece of chocolate cake with my dad for his birthday. Morgan had more than both my dad and I.

Since it was Zachary’s birthday yesterday we had cake and sang happy birthday for him and my dad. Zachary loves to sing happy birthday. I am going to try and get some photos my sister took of the kids at dinner. They were funny.

I Hate Sick Days

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I worked from home today due to my head cold. My prediction on monday was unfortunately dead on. I woke up yesterday and felt like crap. Everyone at work wondered why I was in. All I can say is one I get bored being home sick, and two when you are the new guy you don’t typically take off on your third week at work. By this morning I was just too beat to go in, so with everyone’s blessing I worked via VPN. You have to love VPN. The added benefit of not going into work and doing things remotely was that I didn’t have to talk to anyone. That was great since my throat hurt when I spoke. I only had to talk on one conference call, and even then I didn’t have to talk much.

Hopefully I feel better tomorrow, since I can’t sit home another day or I will go crazy. It is also my Dad’s birthday tomorrow so I need to be in shape to travel to my parents house so we can go out to dinner.

Soar Throat

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I am getting a sore throat. I have the unmistakable feeling that I am getting a cold. I am not happy. Other than that work week #3 at the new job started off fine!

Dam Cold

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Either I am getting sick again (2nd time in 2 months) or the humidity or something messed me up on my trip to Atlanta this weekend. I am now feeling how I get right before I get a cold. I also get this feeling when I am allergic to something in the air. My gut is saying it is a cold. I need to get to the Cold Ez, or that ZiCam that Michael got me into when I got sick at his place in December. Either way when I get home I am going to take something. I am on the plane now, and it is not very comfortable feeling this way in the air. I have a bad feeling that my ear’s are going to not react well when we land. I used to have horrible problems flying when i was a kid and a teenager. As an adult it has been allot better, but every so often I fly and have issues. Fingers crossed that this landing my ears are ok!

Yeah, I am Sick

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I took the day off today. I feel like crap. I didn’t sleep at all last night. The final straw was at 6:30AM I was not able to goto sleep. I took more Tylenol PM and tried to sleep some more. I can barely talk. I hope I am better enough to goto the office tomorrow. I am bored. Whoever says staying home from work is fun?

Also the blog seemed to have been down for a while. According to Typepad’s site they are moving servers. Why they are doing that during the day I don’t know. They claim it wont impact the app, but from what I have seen on my site it has. Looks like I am up now though.