Still sick

Well, I am now starting my 3rd week of this double ear infection. I can’t even describe how horrible this is. I have lost 2 full weeks of my life as I have been in a haze of decongestants and pain killers, just forcing myself through the motions to get through work and then collapsing on the couch with the heating pad. I have slept one full night out of these two weeks, which has suddenly reminded me what it was like to have a baby.

What really sucks is that we have absolutely GORGEOUS weather these past 2 weeks. Almost feels like October out there. Yesterday morning I basically said “F*ck it!” and went for a 2 mile hike. I couldn’t take it anymore. Big mistake. I was moaning by the time I got back to my car. I don’t know if the hike jarred things up in there, or if there was just enough wind to aggravate it, or what. But I couldn’t function the rest of the day.

Sooo I have an appointment to see an ENT specialist tomorrow morning. I’m pretty sure he’s going to want to put tubes in.

I don’t mean to sound like a whiny baby and go on and on about this illness thing. I just want you all to know where I’ve been, and why I haven’t been checking in. I have been thinking about you all though, and wanting to touch base to see what everyone’s up to. If you think about it, please light a candle, send some positive energy toward Ohio, say a prayer, burn some incense, cast out the ear demon, whatever else you think might work… I’d appreciate it. :-)

Quarantined

Our whole house is sick. Yes, even the cat. Going on 3 weeks now.

It started with Noelle getting a UTI, and the antibiotic she was on made her very nauseous. She got done with that, then caught a virus. In the meantime, I developed a bad ear infection. The antibiotic made ME nauseous, so I started a new one. But by this time, it was impacted all the way down to my jaw and causing killer pain. So I am now doped up on heavy-duty vicodin.

Saturday I had to take my cat to the vet and found out he had ear mites. Sooo I handed over $140 for him to be treated for that.

Saturday was also the day of Noelle’s 14th birthday party. I somehow managed to survive it (yay, vicodin!) although I did not get any streamers or balloons put up. And on Sunday Noelle woke up covered in hives. It turns out, she has something called Fifth Disease, which is really what her virus symptoms were that she had a week ago.

All in all, I have paid $300 in health care expenses over the past 3 weeks…..and that is with insurance. I am thankful I have insurance. And thankful that I have savings I can draw from in emergencies such as this. I know there are millions of people out there who don’t have it so good.

I’m going back to bed with the heating pad…..