I’m gonna start this by saying it’s the absolute best time to get this sick. I’m trying to be thankful this isn’t happening to me during a quarter or at a conference.
Because I’m fucked up.
I was having an amazing time in Greece (more on that in a later post). It was my penultimate night (Saturday); I headed out for some seafood. But then, all of a sudden, I couldn’t eat the seafood. I hit a wall. I thought I was just tired from pushing myself so hard.
So I went home and put myself to bed. A few hours later, I woke up with a stuffy nose and a very sore throat.
In the morning, I went down for breakfast, to a lovely staff who knew how I took my tea. And then I couldn’t finish my breakfast or my tea.
So I spent the last day in Greece in my hotel room. I tried to have room service a couple of times, but it didn’t go well (who puts a whole bottle of mustard on a sandwich before sending it up)?
On Monday, I got up at 3 a.m. and took my sick ass to the airport. On the first of my three flights, my eardrum perforated, making the rest of the day even more awful. About 24 hours later, I was home.
I keep thinking that I’ll wake up feeling better. But everything just keeps trading off. The better the sinus congestion gets, the worse my throat does. The better my ear congestion gets, the more I get pink eye.
My headache is extraordinary–my TMJ is totally triggered by the congestion and the ear pain and having go breathe through my mouth. Right now, I feel like something’s trying to squash the whole right side of my face and neck. My back keeps reminding me that it hasn’t enjoyed six plane rides and a week in a strange bed.
Writing this blog is the most my exhaustion has let me do.
I’m not sure what I have. All the signs point to flu, except I don’t have a fever.
Just to top it all off, I’m having my period, although my lady parts doctor says on my birth control, they’re not periods, they’re just break-through bleeding (that happens just like periods do). I don’t have an acronym or a cute name for that.
And I’m too exhausted to figure one out.
I’m going to have to lie down after finishing this sentence.
