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Well, today is wonderful. I mean, just great. Ok, so it sucks. I haven't ever had a sore throat make me feel anything like this before. My throat feels exactly like hamburger. It's a steady constant pain, and it's starting to get to me. I can't even sleep! It wakes me up! WTH? I can't even drink water without pain. It hurts to swallow saliva. It hurts to try and suck on a cough drop! A cough drop burns my throat. Oh ha ha.
This whatever it is started a couple days ago. I woke up with a dry scratchy throat. I thought it was just dry in the cabin. Then I got a fever. It lasted for a few hours, and I felt very tired. All I wanted to do was curl up and go to sleep. Of course I couldn't do that at the time, I was at work and too stubborn to go home. Afterwards me and Scottie went to Broulims and picked up some stuff and a thermometer. I think my temp by then was 99.8 or something. I took a couple of asprin. Scottie wanted me to go to the hospital, I thought it was silly to go to the hospital without insurance for a flu. What were the doctors going to tell me that I didn't already know? At that point I figured I just had a flu. 'It's a virus, you just need to let it run it's course- stay hydrated, rest, etc'.
I woke up the next morning to go to work, Scottie had wanted me to stay home. But I was stubborn, I didn't feel great but I didn't feel we could afford the lost income so I could stay home with the flu. My throat was still sore but I had been able to sleep thru the night after taking some cough medicine and I had some before I left home. Forgot to take it with me though. It's something that you can take every 4 hours. Well, I couldn't run anywhere without getting short of breath because of my throat getting clogged up with stuff causing me to cough which really hurt. So no running. But by the end of my shift I was really losing my voice- partly because I was losing it and partly because it just hurt so much to talk. I tried to speak as sparingly as possible. I found that whispering didn't hurt as much as talking did later on. I'm not sure if whispering is actually a good idea but at least it gives me some form of communication... it's not like I do it much. After work Scottie wanted to go to Jackson to get an oil change for the car. I think he would have preferred me to stay home and rest, but I thought being out could be fun. We didn't end up doing a whole lot, but I got some more cough drops and some sore throat strips. They looked like they could be good. They are hard to use, the first strip I put on my tongue to dissolve then swallow- dumb idea as I numbed my tongue instead. The second one was a little better though I put it too far back on my tongue and it made me want to gag. I was hoping that the strips would be better beccause the cough syrup feels so good on my throat... for the first 15 minutes or so. After that it's bearable for about another 15 minutes and then I'm back to feeling absolutely miserable and have to wait another 3.5 hours to take more. I felt so miserable last night. So last night I took the full dose of the cough syrup and went to sleep early. If I had been able to fall asleep right away and sleep the whole night I would have been able to have had over 7 hours of sleep. I had work this morning. I told Scottie if I didn't feel better then this time I wouldn't go to work. He didn't want me to go to work, he wants me to get better.
So I went to sleep. I woke up exactly 2 hours later from the pain in my throat. Not from coughing, not from choking on phlegm, not from noise or light, but my throat. All day long my ears had felt itchy with slight pressure, but at that moment I realised that they felt so full of pressure that also my entire head hurt. But my throat hurt so much, and I couldn't do anything for it. I took 2 tylenol sinus pills and a cough drop. The cough drops didn't seem to help at all, but I was hoping it would because there wasn't anything else I could do. I so wished I had a popsicle to shove at the back of my throat, or some ice cream. But there wasn't any and noplace around here is open at 2 am. So I tried to go back to sleep, but I couldn't. I got up and tried to have some water, thinking that being more hydrated would be good. The water burned my throat very much. I tried eating some bread dipped in a little peanut butter oil (I know, it sounds gross, but I needed something to wet it and we don't have butter and I didn't want peanut butter on it, definetly not) because my stomach was upset because I haven't had much of an appitite but I had so many meds floating around in my stomach that it was upset. That surprisingly wasn't so bad. I took a cough drop with me to try to go to sleep. I realised that it was making my throat feel worse. I spit it into a kleenex. Afterwards I tried to go to sleep for a awhile. I did, waking up frequently. Finally I woke up at a time that I could take some cough syrup. I was so tired. I took it, and it was soothing but burned slightly. Is it a bad sign when your cough syrup starts to hurt you? That allowed me to sleep for another hour or so. At any rate, I woke up again in pain but I couldn't take any more cough syrup. My head felt like it was going to explode and I had a sharp pain in my neck as well as my hamburger throat. I took 2 asprin and hoped that it would help the pressure in my head and the pain in my throat. I don't know how accurate any of this is anymore, stuff is starting to blur together. Not long before I had to wake up I woke up again and took the last of my cough syrup, and it wasn't even a full dose. When Scottie woke up and asked how I felt I told him that I felt worse.
I haven't ever had my throat hurt like this before. It's nothing near a normal sore throat. My ears hurt and I am afraid that they are infected. My nose isn't running or anything but when I start to choke I cough very violently (and man does it hurt to do it) and sometimes I cough up yellow phlem. I always feel like I could cough up something, but I don't all the time. I sometimes feel like I have a stomach bug as well because food often makes me feel sick and my stomach isn't behaving, if you catch my drift.
I have to wonder if I don't have something like strep throat. I think I might let Scottie take me to the doctors. He's been wanting to take me since the beginning. I'm the stubborn one though.
I'm too tired to write anymore...
This whatever it is started a couple days ago. I woke up with a dry scratchy throat. I thought it was just dry in the cabin. Then I got a fever. It lasted for a few hours, and I felt very tired. All I wanted to do was curl up and go to sleep. Of course I couldn't do that at the time, I was at work and too stubborn to go home. Afterwards me and Scottie went to Broulims and picked up some stuff and a thermometer. I think my temp by then was 99.8 or something. I took a couple of asprin. Scottie wanted me to go to the hospital, I thought it was silly to go to the hospital without insurance for a flu. What were the doctors going to tell me that I didn't already know? At that point I figured I just had a flu. 'It's a virus, you just need to let it run it's course- stay hydrated, rest, etc'.
I woke up the next morning to go to work, Scottie had wanted me to stay home. But I was stubborn, I didn't feel great but I didn't feel we could afford the lost income so I could stay home with the flu. My throat was still sore but I had been able to sleep thru the night after taking some cough medicine and I had some before I left home. Forgot to take it with me though. It's something that you can take every 4 hours. Well, I couldn't run anywhere without getting short of breath because of my throat getting clogged up with stuff causing me to cough which really hurt. So no running. But by the end of my shift I was really losing my voice- partly because I was losing it and partly because it just hurt so much to talk. I tried to speak as sparingly as possible. I found that whispering didn't hurt as much as talking did later on. I'm not sure if whispering is actually a good idea but at least it gives me some form of communication... it's not like I do it much. After work Scottie wanted to go to Jackson to get an oil change for the car. I think he would have preferred me to stay home and rest, but I thought being out could be fun. We didn't end up doing a whole lot, but I got some more cough drops and some sore throat strips. They looked like they could be good. They are hard to use, the first strip I put on my tongue to dissolve then swallow- dumb idea as I numbed my tongue instead. The second one was a little better though I put it too far back on my tongue and it made me want to gag. I was hoping that the strips would be better beccause the cough syrup feels so good on my throat... for the first 15 minutes or so. After that it's bearable for about another 15 minutes and then I'm back to feeling absolutely miserable and have to wait another 3.5 hours to take more. I felt so miserable last night. So last night I took the full dose of the cough syrup and went to sleep early. If I had been able to fall asleep right away and sleep the whole night I would have been able to have had over 7 hours of sleep. I had work this morning. I told Scottie if I didn't feel better then this time I wouldn't go to work. He didn't want me to go to work, he wants me to get better.
So I went to sleep. I woke up exactly 2 hours later from the pain in my throat. Not from coughing, not from choking on phlegm, not from noise or light, but my throat. All day long my ears had felt itchy with slight pressure, but at that moment I realised that they felt so full of pressure that also my entire head hurt. But my throat hurt so much, and I couldn't do anything for it. I took 2 tylenol sinus pills and a cough drop. The cough drops didn't seem to help at all, but I was hoping it would because there wasn't anything else I could do. I so wished I had a popsicle to shove at the back of my throat, or some ice cream. But there wasn't any and noplace around here is open at 2 am. So I tried to go back to sleep, but I couldn't. I got up and tried to have some water, thinking that being more hydrated would be good. The water burned my throat very much. I tried eating some bread dipped in a little peanut butter oil (I know, it sounds gross, but I needed something to wet it and we don't have butter and I didn't want peanut butter on it, definetly not) because my stomach was upset because I haven't had much of an appitite but I had so many meds floating around in my stomach that it was upset. That surprisingly wasn't so bad. I took a cough drop with me to try to go to sleep. I realised that it was making my throat feel worse. I spit it into a kleenex. Afterwards I tried to go to sleep for a awhile. I did, waking up frequently. Finally I woke up at a time that I could take some cough syrup. I was so tired. I took it, and it was soothing but burned slightly. Is it a bad sign when your cough syrup starts to hurt you? That allowed me to sleep for another hour or so. At any rate, I woke up again in pain but I couldn't take any more cough syrup. My head felt like it was going to explode and I had a sharp pain in my neck as well as my hamburger throat. I took 2 asprin and hoped that it would help the pressure in my head and the pain in my throat. I don't know how accurate any of this is anymore, stuff is starting to blur together. Not long before I had to wake up I woke up again and took the last of my cough syrup, and it wasn't even a full dose. When Scottie woke up and asked how I felt I told him that I felt worse.
I haven't ever had my throat hurt like this before. It's nothing near a normal sore throat. My ears hurt and I am afraid that they are infected. My nose isn't running or anything but when I start to choke I cough very violently (and man does it hurt to do it) and sometimes I cough up yellow phlem. I always feel like I could cough up something, but I don't all the time. I sometimes feel like I have a stomach bug as well because food often makes me feel sick and my stomach isn't behaving, if you catch my drift.
I have to wonder if I don't have something like strep throat. I think I might let Scottie take me to the doctors. He's been wanting to take me since the beginning. I'm the stubborn one though.
I'm too tired to write anymore...
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