Sick Day
I haven't written in this thing in a while. I had planned on writing a Valentine's Day blog, but that night a tragedy happened and, well, it just took me out of the sharing mood. But I'm back to tell of today. Today I am sick (if you couldn't tell that from the nifty title!) and let me tell you, I was miserable.I've had a nasty cough for the past couple of days but I wasn't expecting it to escalate into this. I've been really tired lately. So tired that I fell asleep last night at about 9:15 during one of my favorite movies, Pirates of the Carribean (I hate falling asleep during movies!!). If you know me well, then you know that I'm not a person to typically be asleep at 9:15. At that hour I'm usually either doing homework or hanging out with friends, but not last night even though I had the opportunity to do both. Several times mom "woke me up" but it was never successful. (the reason "woke me up" is in quotes is because a lot of times people think I'm awake because I respond to their questions with clear words but I'm not awake and won't ever remember talking to you). About two hours my phone rang thankfully, or else I might have been on the couch all night. (another thing i hate is not sleeping exactly how I want to. I get really mad at myself if I stay on the couch all night or fall asleep in my clothes- not that I sleep nude or anything, I'm just not in my pj's, had to make that clear). Wow, this blog has a lot of parenthesis. (Maybe that should have been in parenthesis. It was afterall a side thought. Anyway...) Where was I? Oh, yea. So I talk on the phone for a little bit and watch some tv and I think I fell asleep for maybe 15 more minutes before actually going to bed. By this time it's about 1 or 1:15 a.m.
So mom decides that since I'm sick and haven't gotten a lot of sleep lately she's going to let me sleep in. (She usually makes me get up around 10 or so) I wake up at 12:45. That's right people, half the day has already past. Now, I love sleeping in, but I don't do it very often. I wake up for school every day at 6:15 and I usually have something to go to on Satruday whether it's an orchestra thing or meeting a friend for lunch. And even in the summer, we have Seesalt for most of the summer and i get up around 6:30 there. So whenever I sleep in, I get a terrible terrible headache. It's sad, but true.
So I'm already sick but now I have a terrible sleep in headache to go with it. I thought it would get better as the "morning" went on and I ended up feeling miserable. My body ached horrible, my head felt like it was exploding, my face felt like there a hundred tiny pins in it, I was cold and couldn't get warm, I had a runny nose, my couch was still there but now accompanied by sneezing, my stomach hurt from coughing so much, and pretty much everything else that could hurt did. Thankfull I did have some visitors (yay! I love steven and kelli!) and that did cheer me up a bit. At about 6:30 pm, I finally decided it might be time to get ready and take a shower. (Better late than never!) At this point I felt like cold mashed potatoes, except hollow on the inside. So I took my shower which was amazing becuase I turned the hot water all the way up. I got goosebumps a few times just because my skin wasn't used to anything warm.
The pounding headache didn't go away, nor my coughing/sneezing, runny nose, achey body but I did feel better. And the wonderful climax was my daddy came home! Sure my head and throat hurt to bad to laugh at his jokes and I was too out of it to give any comedic or thoughtful input, but it's still good to have my daddy home. It makes this house, which used to hold 5 people (sometimes 6) feel less empty. Currently I'm still sick. And bored. Hardly anyone got online today. Everyone had up away messages. Why did I have to be the only bum today? Sheishamabob. Anyway, I think I'm supposed to do my homework so I'm gonna see how far i can't get on this. If anyone has any tips for getting better fast, please comment and let me know. I need to get back to my life soon. Love y'all!
posted by Shari @ 6:45 PM
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