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Post-sickness
I don’t know what I picked up but I picked up something, somewhere. I was starting to cough on Christmas Eve, I didn’t think much of it, just a cough. I’ve been coughing for 4 solid months with one thing or another. This one however, progressed until it was a really wet and deep cough. Then the body aches started. Then the congestion hit and the sinus pressure started pushing my face bones outwards. Pure misery. Here I am 3 days later and I’m still struggling. I’m over the aches for the most part and I’m mostly over the congestion due to Musinex-D but my lungs are wrecked from this…
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I am so sick
I haven’t been this sick since I was a child. My throat is covered with big white sores and the glands under my chin and my neck are so swollen. It doesn’t even look like I have a neck right now. Even swallowing spit hurts. I’m miserable. I just made myself a cup of green tea to sip on just to keep hydrated. I don’t even know what to do. I don’t feel like doing anything because my pain is peaked at the moment. I always have my never-ending constant hip pain and it’s only gotten worse and it’s about the max I can handle. Any additional pain on top…
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It’s been a busy few days and I’m sick, again.
Saturday we went to my Mother-in-law’s house to celebrate Seth’s birthday. Then on Sunday, we went to my Mom’s house to have Thanksgiving with her and Larry. I got my hematologist appointment made. It’s at the cancer center in the hospital. That was an unnerving text message to get, saying I’d been referred to the cancer center. The hematologists here are also oncologists. It’s going to be heavy walking in there. Being as empathetic as I am I tend to absorb the emotions and the energies around me. I’m guessing I’ll have to have iron infusions since my iron is so critically low and I’m severely anemic. This has been…
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Heavy news this morning
I’ve been going through a lot with my kids and their sickness and it’s been really hard. I have to put it in perspective. The illness that my kiddos have are temporary they go away and life goes on. That’s not the case for one of my oldest best friends this morning. His son has been in the hospital for the past few days with a mysterious illness for which he’s needed blood transfusions. Today they finally got a diagnosis. It’s every parent’s worst nightmare. Cancer. My heart is so heavy and I feel so badly for my friend and his son. It’s a heavy diagnosis. It’s -1 degrees outside…
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Zahkya has croup again
I could just about cry. Zahkya woke up last night saying, “Mommy I’m having a hard time breathing” and started coughing that dreaded barky cough again. My heart sank. She just had this a few weeks ago and it was scary. I’ve been dealing with Tristyn’s sickness, which doesn’t seem to be getting better either, and now I have Zahkya sick again. So the very first thing I did this morning was to call her doctor. I knew what they were going to say even before they said it. Her doctor doesn’t have any openings until next week. I’ve had this problem with them for months now. I feel like…
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My sickest day yet, Tristyn’s better
This has got to be the hardest day yet for me and whatever this is that I have. My body aches are terrible and I’m coughing and I’m breathing fast. I’ve got really bad brain fog and no focus. Moving hurts. I’ve had to get everything ready for the week, however, because Moms still have to do their job even when ill. I think that’s why I’m not getting better. I haven’t had any resting time and I’ve been taking care of everyone else instead of myself. I just made myself a cup of tea to sip. I think someone warm in my throat might soothe it a bit. Tristyn’s…