I am so sick. I think that I’m getting better, but it just can’t happen fast enough.
Dear Husband and I managed to scrape together ten days when we could get away to Florida. He goes each year to golf in his oldest son’s memorial golf tournament. I went with him last year, and knew I was coming down with something on the way to the airport. I was sick the entire time, and he made me march up and down these gorgeous beaches on the Gulf coast. I really wanted to just sit, but I humored him, because he’s sure that you burn off the “cold” faster if you’re using more calories.
This year, we planned to spend the first four days with family. My step-daughter and her family had arranged to go to Disneyworld, and we agreed to go with to help wrangle the kids. Our youngest granddaughter had this terrible upper respiratory “thing,” but she was willing to play and smile, and gave minimal resistance to our wiping her eyes and nose. Two days later, her mother came down with the same thing. Two days later Dear Husband came down with it, too.
We were driving south to the Keys and he was sick. He hadn’t started the awful coughing yet, but he was achy and generally felt bad. We spent most of the afternoons last week, in beautiful, sunny, WARM, Florida, because we felt under the weather. I managed to stave it off until Thursday, the day before we were supposed to fly home, and the aches and sinus drainage and coughing started up.
I think maybe I should cross Florida off my list of places to visit in the future. (sigh)
We returned home about 1:30 or 2:00 in the morning on Saturday. I have been sick ever since, with terrible coughing. I’ve slept almost upright in my chair for the past three nights. Luckily, the doc gave me a prescription to help my ears, and Robitussin with codeine so I could get a little rest. I am SO ready for this to end, and people are telling me horror stories about it lasting a month.
I hope it clears up soon, so I can visit with my mother. It’s been more than two weeks since I saw her last, but I don’t want to risk giving her whatever this is.
Arrrgh!!!
It's just my state of mind!
Oh Buffy…NOOOOO! The worst timing in the world! I hope you feel better very quickly sweetie. It’s not bad enough that you were sick in Florida….now at home too. Please don’t overdo…take it easy. And for sure….don’t go see EM until you are completely over what it is you have. That’s the last thing you need to pass on to her. I had to be careful of the same thing with my mother too….she caught things so easily…and with disasterous results.
I’ll be thinking of you sweetie….sending you warm, healing hugs. (Save a few for Dear Husband too please) Lots of love, Joy
IT sure was, wasn’t it!? Dear Husband says that it’s easier to be sick when it’s warm. It was a lot harder for him to come home to cold Chicago, and have to work outside.
I’ve been slogging away on paperwork all week. I’ve taken it easy, but been inside about 90% of the time. DH thinks I would get better faster if I got out more. (Yeah….he just wants me to suffer along with him! G*)
Perhaps this week I’ll get to visit with EM. My cough is abating by leaps and bounds now that I’ve had a little help from the Doc.
Thanks for those warm, healing hugs, my friend. I’m sure they helped, too!