{"id":1772,"date":"2014-01-25T15:55:53","date_gmt":"2014-01-25T20:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/?p=1772"},"modified":"2014-01-25T15:55:53","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T20:55:53","slug":"the-sick-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/2014\/01\/25\/the-sick-day\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sick Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It\u2019s been said that you never really know a person until you\u2019ve seen them with the flu.\u00a0 It\u2019s also been said that you should never ever marry a person without seeing them with the flu.\u00a0 The flu, or in my case an upper respiratory infection with bronchial spasms, changes a person into a walking whining Nyquil commercial.\u00a0 It\u2019s not pretty.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve had this \u201cthing\u201d in some form or another since the end of December.\u00a0 It started out as one \u201cthing\u201d then morphed into another \u201cthing\u201d ebbing at times, lulling me into a false sense of security in the fact that it may well be gone.\u00a0 Then it came back with a vengeance.<\/p>\n

Let me start by saying, I don\u2019t get sick.\u00a0 That said, I got sick.\u00a0 I\u2019m not good at getting sick, everyone will tell you that and then they will laugh.\u00a0 Because it\u2019s funny\u2026 I can take it for a very long time i.e. the end of December, and then I\u2019ve had it. \u00a0Let the rant begin; WTF with this thing, my face is like cement, there is no air going through or coming out of my nose.\u00a0 My sinuses are so swollen that my TEETH hurt.\u00a0 Post nasal drip?\u00a0 We\u2019re talking full on the tap is wide open but there\u2019s nowhere for the drip to go, enter the cough.\u00a0 Come on already.\u00a0\u00a0 So what do you take?\u00a0 Decongestant?\u00a0 Antihistamine?\u00a0 Cough suppressant? Expectorant?\u00a0 Oh OK take everything in the medicine chest including a shot of Afrin which I gave up long ago but desperate times call for desperate measures\u2026.was that air going through my nose?\u00a0 Just a little, very little.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t go to the doctor\u2026you can hear your mother saying sarcastically in the back of your head.\u00a0 Fine.\u00a0 I go to the doctor with the full expectation of picking up a Z-pack and being on my merry way\u2026but nooooo, I\u2019ve gone viral.\u00a0 This is no run of the mill bacterial infection, there is no miracle medicine, there is only:<\/p>\n

Claritin\u00a0 –\u00a0 Musinex\u00a0 –\u00a0 Netty Pot<\/p>\n

Seriously?\u00a0 Oh yes and plenty of fluids and rest for at least one full day.\u00a0 WHAT!!! A full day?<\/p>\n

I love my friends but this would just have them in hysterics.\u00a0 Evi could not contain herself.\u00a0 Sandra couldn\u2019t either.\u00a0 My sister was a bit kinder but I could hear the laugher going through her head.\u00a0 I CAN\u2019T.\u00a0 The most pragmatic answer to my ranting and raving by text came from Muriel, \u201cdamn that sucks.\u201d\u00a0 The apple doesn\u2019t fall far from the tree\u2026<\/p>\n

The only person I could rely on to come through with a true the world is coming to an end because I\u2019m sick was Rere\u2026.and that was even MORE annoying.<\/p>\n

So as I\u2019m about to begin my treatment regime I\u2019m texting back and forth with a friend of mine trying to determine if we can do a catch up on Monday, if this GD upper respiratory infection (with bronchial spasms) goes away I lament and he is somewhat sympathetic giving me back a good-natured parody of my scheme of things post from the week before.\u00a0 And then it hits me, like a brick.\u00a0 This is a person who in his own personal scheme of things knows like he knows what it\u2019s like to be sick, really sick.\u00a0 And here I am pissing and moaning about my swollen sinuses.\u00a0 Time for me to shut the hell up, I get it and suddenly I\u2019m grateful, as he pointed out, in the scheme of things that this is just a cold on steroids.<\/p>\n

Four gallons of Arizona Green Tea later, a full day on the couch dozing and reading and dozing and watching the TV chefs, 24 hr. Claritin, 1200mg Musinex, netty pot twice a day and wait a minute\u2026I can breathe. The aches are gone, thankfully I can go and keep my hair appointment because if you\u2019ve got to wake up with a cold you don\u2019t have to be greeted from the mirror by Bomba the elephant boy looking back at you.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m sure my next bout with whatever the virus de jour happens to be will still aggravate the hell out of me but in the long run if I\u2019m going to preach that \u201cit\u2019s just cars\u201d and put yourself first, and see yourself well instead of harping on the inconsequential blah blah then I should indeed just shut the hell up and get out the netty pot.<\/p>\n

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