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When it rained last week, Monkey Boy kept asking if he could go outside and 'catch rain drops'...when I said yes, he immediately ran out wearing just his choneys, PJ top, and rainboots. It was so cute I had to take a photo with my phone (no way I'm getting my camera wet!). Then of course I had to digiscrap it:
If you read my blog thru Bloglines or Googlereader, come check out my new banner....I just realized it's only been a year since I updated it so I finally got around to making a new one... And since I had Photoshop open, I did some digiscrapping, too:
photo from July, 2006
papers from A.Victoria's "Beachy One" paper pack
Well, I've been sick since last week...It started with a scratchy throat while in Palm Springs, which then became a nasty head cold. After a week, I should have started feeling better, but by this last weekend I was actually feeling worse. While talking to a friend last Friday, she kept telling me that I had a sinus infection...well I normally gets LOTS of pressure in my sinuses with a head cold, often bad enough that my teeth will ache. So I kinda of blew it off, thinking it was just congestion from the cold.
Sunday afternoon we attended G'Ma O's big birthday party with the Dearest's whole family. I was still really super congested, despite using my neti pot and dosing myself with Sudafed (for the congestion) and Advil (for the pounding sinus headache). Right after the party we had to attend Open House for Monkey Boy's preschool. By then the Sudafed and Advil had worn off and I was feeling like a giant pile of crap. My head was pounding horribly and I would barely see straight from the sinus pressure. I finally had to leave the Dearest and the small men and go lay down in the car. As soon as we got home, I took a handful of pills (more Sudafed and Advil) and crashed out for an hour. The Dearest had to make dinner and finish up the Sunday night routine because I was still out of it after I woke up.
By this morning, the congestion was marginally better, but it had been over 10 days since I first got sick and I was actually feeling worse, not better. At this point I should have been on the mend. Instead my sinuses were still completely gunked up (despite lots of nose blowing and using the neti pot), I had lost my sense of taste, I was exhausted all the time, and I just knew something was not right with my body. So I made an appt. to see our GP. Now, I NEVER go to the doctor...the last time I took antibiotics was when I was preggers with Little Man and had an UTI...over seven years ago! The last time I went to the doctor because I was sick? Probably well over eight years ago...I've been pretty healthy all this time- of course I have had colds and such, but nothing my body couldn't handle with some help from immune-boosting home remedies.
Anyways, the doc promptly confirmed that I was right: I did have a sinus infection so he wrote me a scrip for antibiotics.Take 2x a day with food, for 14 days. Fun fun! I was shocked at how HUGE the pills are, though...seriously???? They are the size of my thumb (that's a BIG mug you see in the photo above). So now I'm on the antibiotics (along with some probiotics to keep the lovely side effects of the horsepills minimal), and hopefully I'll start feeling better very soon.
Moral of the story? Trust your instincts...and it's probably not a good idea to hang out in smokey bars in Palm Springs when you are coming down with a nasty head cold!
