May 28th, 2011 (01:57 am)
current mood: better
Yeah, yeah. I know. It's been {insert long-ass time} since I've posted anything.
sigh.
Since I don't feel like delving into the past {insert long-ass time} that I've been AWOL, How about the past week?
I've been sick.
Work-missing sick.
Not normal sick.
Nothing that looks like being sick.
No yarf.
No snot.
No coughing.
Just a headache. And a fever.
Oh, not any headache. It started off as "just a headache, gimme some Motrin".
Nothing helped.
Not sleeping, eating, starving, Motrin, Tylenol, cold compresses, warm kitties - *nothing*.
And it got worse.
It felt like there were creatures with steel-toed boots inside my head beating their way out while really strong invisible people with sledgehammers were trying to beat their way in.
My pain level was at a 9. Literally.
And, I had a wild-assed fluctuating fever.
It jumped around from 99.9 to 103.7 and everything in between.
The headache started as a mild headache on Saturday. It began finding its legs on Sunday. It was a full blown debilitating nightmare on Monday.
I called out of work.
Hubby tried taking me to my doctor (he wasn't there - they recommended the other office, which was full until after 4pm).
He then just took me to the ER.
I was in so much pain, the trip was kind of a blur for me.
They poked and prodded, took blood, checked readings, gave me a CT scan and scratched their heads a lot.
My blood pressure was fine. My blood work all came out ok. No nausea. No congestion. No nasal symptoms. Nothing irregular on the CT.
No outward reason for the headache or fever.
I got a shot in the ass (some mild pain reliever) and a couple of Tylenol.
My fever broke enough they were convinced I wasn't going to spontaneously combust or send gray matter splattering all over the walls.
They called it a virus and said to follow up with my doctor.
I slept and showered a lot all day Tuesday. Still had the headache and fevers.
Wednesday Jamie took me to see my doctor.
He reviewed all of the info from the ER, poked, prodded, and tested some more - but couldn't find any reason for the headache and fevers except for a virus (that seemed to be moving along by this time).
Doc realized I was still in pain and could use some relief - so he gave me a shot of Demerol.
I still had the headache, I just didn't care! Unfortunately, that feeling only lasted for a couple of hours.
I started feeling better yesterday (Thursday). Actually, yesterday was the first day since all of this started that I had even gotten on my computer. Yeah, I felt like that much shit.
I went to work today, and put in 10 hours. I actually started feeling better as the day went along - I still have a bit of a headache but DAMN I feel better!!
Hopefully I can get some shit done around the house this weekend and just generally enjoy my head not exploding. :)
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