I'm completely exhausted from sucking at life. Don't ever become like me.

Ha

Music: My Father's Gun - Elton John


According to my last post, I predicted that I would probably get hurt or something the next day. Well, that prediction turned into prophesy, because sure enough, the next day I stepped on something in the garage in my bare feet, and whatever I stepped on is now wedged underneath the skin and I'm unable to get it out. It hurts like a mother. It might be a splinter, but I can't squeeze it out - there's no apparent opening. But you can see it under there.

Monday night was my last day of antibiotics, and so far so good...at least with the sinus infection. Tuesday was my last day for eye drops, and I'm not exactly convinced the pink eye is 100% gone but I guess we'll see in the next few days.

Other than that, I've been working a lot. I'm pretty tired when I get home, but I'm getting used to being busy all day. I'm looking to get a new digital camera, because mine sucks/is broken. Once I do, I'll have to post some pics of the kids I nanny for because they're adorable. We made these amazing chocolate sandwich cookies yesterday afternoon. Well, I mostly made them because they lost interest after the first batch. They're funny though. Like today, maybe you had to be there, but I was washing some dishes inside and Claire (7) and Seth (5) were outside on the back patio and they were really quiet, and then all of a sudden Claire exclaims: "You farted!" Haha. I just thought it was funny.

It has become the month of maladies

Music: Another Day - Air

So this entry is going to serve as primarily a health update. My body has taken quite a blow this past month. Let's reminisce.

Saturday, April 28 - I started to feel a cold coming on. I felt like crap, but went out that night anyway.

Sunday, April 29 - Slept most of the day, still felt like crap, but I couldn't put my finger on what exactly I felt like, except that it felt like crap. I took cold medicine for a week and thought that it was about 80% back to normal.

Friday, May 4 - Went out for Lyndsy's birthday. Felt ok, but a little tired. But halfway into that day, one of my molars started hurting real bad and I couldn't chew on that side.

Saturday, May 5 - Whatever "cold" I had the earlier week came back at full force.

Tuesday, May 8 - The woman who I was nannying for at the time, who is a nurse practictioner, took one look at me and told me that I had a sinus infection. I had had a fever, swollen glands, unconventionally weird sore throat, stuffed up head/nose. She prescribes my first round of antibiotics. Begin taking them at approximately 11:30 am. At 3:30 pm, I noticed my eye was itchy and I felt like I needed eye drops, which I thought was strange, especially since I don't wear glasses or contacts. Then, my eye started to ahem, ooze. I went home that night, started not feeling well, took more antbiotics, and took a nap. I woke up half an hour later and my eye was completely crusted shut. Fun, yeah? I called my mom at work because I thought I was going blind. Not really, but you know. She said it was probably pink eye, and she managed to get me some eye drops that night.

Wednesday, May 9 - Dentist appointment to see what's wrong with my tooth. He told me that my tooth hurt because I had a sinus infection. Further confirmation of the initial diagnosis.

Friday, May 11 - I had finished my first course of antibiotics. At this point the pink eye had spread to both eyes, but the drops were keeping it somewhat in check, and by the next day, had pretty much cleared up. However, I was nowhere near clear of the sinus infection, so I managed to get into the doctor, who prescribed me a 10-day dose of amoxicillin.

Tuesday, May 15 - Feeling a lot better, but can still tell that my throat wasn't 100% normal, and I got headachey and feverish in the evenings. But during a game of "airplane," with 4-year-old Jake, I extended him too far over my head and ended up nearly paralyzing myself by kind of doing a weird backwards somersault, but only my body went over my head. Hard to explain. But it felt like I had broken my neck. Had only about a 120 degree range of motion for about a week. Also, during Jake's hockey practice later that afternoon, my eye started to ooze again, spreading to both eyes. Administered eye drops for the next few days, mostly gone by Friday.

Wednesday, May 16 - Basically slammed the basement door into my nose. Heard a loud crack, and thought I would see blood ejecting from my nose but all I got was a huge bump and bruises on the sides. Hurt so bad that it made the top of my head throb. Was sensitive to the touch for about a week. Lots of ice.

Friday, May 25 - Second round of antibiotics done, but still feel not completely cured. Made a last minute appointment for the doctor, got tested for strep and mono, get a 10-day course of Keflex. Later this afternoon, eye starts oozing again, spreads to other eye. Susie (the nurse practictioner) gives me some extra strong bootleg eye drops that she had at home.

Saturday, June 2 - After getting back late from Sammy's show, eye starts getting red and itchy. Goddam it. I had to give back the bootleg drops, but I brought my old ones just in case.

Monday, June 11 - Last day of Keflex. Let's hope I'm cured tomorrow. Still have pink eye....round 4 has been the most stubborn, but at least only mostly in my left eye. Still using ghetto eye drops. In the meantime, it turned out that I tested negative for strep and mono, but my blood test showed that I'm anemic, so I'm now on 130 mg of iron daily. Plus I decided to started taking a calcium supplement too. And today, while chasing 2-year-old Casey down every aisle of the Ypsi public library, I knelt down to peekaboo him, and then shot right back up, and hit the side of my head on the corner of the children's bookshelf. My first thought was fuck!, and then the second, You idiot! I literally saw stars. It hurt so bad again that I felt the top of my head throb, even though I had hit my temple. I became slightly nauseous, and for a minute I thought maybe I had a concussion. I've had a headache the rest of the day, and there's a bruise on the end of my eyebrow and into my temple.

I'm probably forgetting stuff...I thought I had pink eye only 3 times, but it turns out it's 4. One large sinus infection, 4 pink eyes, two head/face injuries, and one neck twisting. Now I'm just waiting to stub all my toes on the sidewalk or have all my hair get caught in the car door or something. I'm taking the kids to Rolling Hills tomorrow. Watch me slip and fall in the ladies locker room or get thrown from an innertube and drown in the waves, only to have my cold, pale, lifeless body dragged ashore through the urine-infested chlorine by some pubescent pimply-faced lifeguard. I wouldn't be surprised.