Not a Good Day for Me

Yesterday was kind of a rough day. On Wednesday afternoon I could tell I was coming down with a head cold – it came on fast too. I had a sinus headache, chills, sore throat…the works. I stuck it out at work but by the time I got home I was miserable. I helped get dinner going and then crawled under about 3 blankets on the couch. I pretty much stayed there till it was time to take the kids up for bedtime (Josh even brought me dinner out there because I was too cold to come out of the blankets). I ended up getting in bed at 7:15 under about 6 layers of varying thicknesses, and stayed there till 9:15, when Josh came in to see if I was up for watching Lost downstairs. I made it downstairs and managed to stay awake for it (hot tea helped), and then went back to bed under my many layers. Because I was so cold, I didn’t feel like taking a shower & going to bed with wet hair like I normally do, so I set my alarm a little earlier so I could shower in the morning. Yesterday morning my alarm went off & I got in the shower. I was trying to be quick since it has been a while since Josh & I have both showered in the morning (wanted to make sure there was enough hot water for him). About 2/3 of the way through my shower I started to feel lightheaded. I sat down for a second and then decided I just needed to get up & finish because I was wasting hot water. I got up and was almost done with my shower, and the next thing I knew I was looking up from the floor – half in & half out of the shower (thankfully our shower has one of those glass doors that opens out rather than slides). I had a hard time getting up (due to the fact that my back was across the 3” or so raised threshold that keeps the water in the shower) so I knocked on the floor hoping Josh would hear. I was afraid he was working out on the Wii Fit with his headphones on – luckily for me, he did not have his headphones on and he was up in a flash to help. It was awful. I decided at that point that work was not happening yesterday. I went to the doctor and they did an EKG, which was normal, other than my heart beating slightly fast, but not above what is considered normal. They think I was dehydrated and the steam from the shower (combined with all the fluid in my head from the cold and a possible sinus infection) caused me to faint. So I am on my 3rd 32oz bottle of Powerade Zero trying to make sure I’m well-hydrated. They also took blood, but I won’t hear back on that until today or Monday. So I laid on the couch all day under my many blankets, and didn’t really start warming up until around 4:00. I’m not as cold today and not as weak (probably because I’m not dehydrated anymore) but now have an awful cough. Oh, and a LOVELY bruise across my lower back & top of my butt (where I hit the shower thing). It makes sitting down very pleasant. I think it will be there for a while. I was also scared to get back in the shower last night so I took a bath – including washing my hair under the running faucet. It was quite a challenge but I did it.

So I’m hoping that things will be getting better. I am happy it’s Friday and happy to have the weekend to rest some more. Even when I’m in a bad mood, or not feeling well, it always makes me feel a little better watching & playing with Zachary & Liam. Liam has been cracking me up lately. Zachary has a Rocket from Little Einsteins that came with little plastic figures of the 4 kids in it. Liam LOVES grabbing the 2 girls (Annie & June) and walking around with one in each hand. I call them “his girls”. And last night we had to work on Zachary’s letter bag for school today (they have a letter of the week and on Fridays they have to bring in a bag containing items that start with that letter). This week is O. Zachary knew that “orange” starts with O, so we got him a piece of paper and he colored on it with an orange crayon. Then he kept telling me that it was a Mother’s Day card for me and that I could open it on Mother’s Day (but then he kept making me hold it & look at it right then). It was very sweet, and I hope he does save that for me because it would be a very special Mother’s Day card.