Well, I’m now two weeks into this, four days past starting antibiotics, and I’m still feeling crappy. This is an improvement over super ultra crappy, but I’m still not exactly feeling like I’m ready to start dancing yet.
Today my boss came over after I’d only been at work an hour and told me she’d been told to send me home. Wow! That’s never happened before, and to be honest, I felt the most amazing sense of relief. I feel so badly that I’m so behind at work, and I’m about to be gone for a week, and my responsibilities are not being adequately taken care of. I know there’s something major I’ve forgotten to do and I can’t think of it. I know I’ve got a feature outstanding as well. At the same time, I know I’m struggling and was very grateful to be sort of ordered home.
I am slowly improving. My cough, while still pretty bad, is much improved. I actually slept four hours in a row this afternoon, the longest stretch of sleep I’ve had in a week. My throat doesn’t hurt too much and is much less swollen. My ears don’t hurt as much, although today I felt as though I had a sinus headache on top of everything.
From the coughing, however, my chest burns and my muscles are so tired from coughing that now even when I know I need to cough something up I don’t seem to have the strength to do it. My entire rib cage, from the front to the back, just aches.
So, there’s improvement and I’m grateful for that. I do, however, remain very, very concerned about what might be going on in my chest.
Today my boss came over after I’d only been at work an hour and told me she’d been told to send me home. Wow! That’s never happened before, and to be honest, I felt the most amazing sense of relief. I feel so badly that I’m so behind at work, and I’m about to be gone for a week, and my responsibilities are not being adequately taken care of. I know there’s something major I’ve forgotten to do and I can’t think of it. I know I’ve got a feature outstanding as well. At the same time, I know I’m struggling and was very grateful to be sort of ordered home.
I am slowly improving. My cough, while still pretty bad, is much improved. I actually slept four hours in a row this afternoon, the longest stretch of sleep I’ve had in a week. My throat doesn’t hurt too much and is much less swollen. My ears don’t hurt as much, although today I felt as though I had a sinus headache on top of everything.
From the coughing, however, my chest burns and my muscles are so tired from coughing that now even when I know I need to cough something up I don’t seem to have the strength to do it. My entire rib cage, from the front to the back, just aches.
So, there’s improvement and I’m grateful for that. I do, however, remain very, very concerned about what might be going on in my chest.
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