Wow, I have been doing really great....not!
Oh well, heres the story of the last 7 days. Its a doozy.
Tuesday, June 3rd. work 7am-3pm. There are major thunderstorms coming thru. As luck would have it, I am working Arrival Radar. That means I work the planes that are coming in , I get them to the final and line them up and clear them for the approach, then I switch them to the tower and they clear them to land. Just a little ATC lesson there. Anyway, what airplanes won't do is land during a thunderstorm. You may think you have, but you really have probably just flown
close to a thunderstorm, and thru some rain, but not the really bad stuff. Anyway, what I had was a bunch of airplanes flying around dodging each other and storms. Anyway, back to my story. I got a ache in my neck and was really wiped out after. I thought it was from stress, that wouldn't be unusual. I told several co-workers about my neck pain. OK, call it whining.
Wednesday, June 4th. work 6am-2pm, in theory. Legendary
This day started almost exactly the same, including me whining about my neck hurting. More thunderstorms, working Arrival again, but it wasnt as bad this day, the storms timing was better. When I get a break a little before 11am, I decide to eat lunch. Chicken and gunky rice (I have given you guys this recipe, its yummy). After I eat I am watching the tv in the break room. Obama speech so I am listening. The tv is bouncing. The picture I mean. I ask a co-worker, and he concurs the picture is bouncing. I then say its making the whole room move. He says its stopped and it should be ok. But to me everything starts spinning. I try to shake it off, pretend I'm ok. I walk to the hall. I suddenly get really really hot. I think maybe its a hot flash???? Now I am spinning and sweating. I go into the bathroom and a girl in there asks if I'm ok. I say no. She thinks its a flash too, and says "you know they have medicine for that" .sweetheart.
Its ok, shes young, doesnt know better. I tell her to tell the dupe I wont be out for a while. I think it will go away in a few minutes, maybe 20? No idea. New to me, and very embarrassing. So I go to sit down (visual there for you
) and had to do the quick swivel twist and power puke! Now I am drenched in sweat, the room is spinning and I am puking my guts out. So much for the flash theory. People kept coming in and asking me if they can do anything. Nope. I puked for hours on end. The manager sent the secretary in to try to get me to leave. Thing is, I couldnt move. If I opened my eyes and moved at all I puked over and over. I couldnt get in a car! Too sick. Then the chills started. Bone racking chills. I was actually rattling. On the bathroom floor. At some point someone came and gave me some towels to lay my head on and some 7up, which I couldnt drink. After about 3 hours I was able to stop puking. So I tried to move to the breakroom couch to lay down. One of the guys helped me, i couldnt walk by myself. Earlier someone had called my mom to go pick up kevin after school. Eventually, I called kevin and told him to tell mom to come get me after she got him. (my mom doesnt have a cell phone, so this happened over a period of hours. She got there around 5 (3 hours after I got off work.) Basically, I was sick at work for 6 hours. I got home and slept, and woke up puking again later that night.
Thursday June 5th
Fever and chills. I sipped some orange soda at times.
Friday June 6th
When I woke up, I felt much better, but weak. I decided to eat, and had some dry cheerios ( a few spoonfuls) several times during the day. No bad effects, so i decide I am better. I can only sit up for a few minutes at a time tho. then I would collapse.
Saturday June 7th
I call in sick to work. I feel better, but still cant get vertical. Very dizzy when I try to walk. I call my boss and ask for sunday and monday off, i already had tuesday and wednesday. Then I dont have to work until saturday. I feel better about that. But I am not getting much done
Sunday June 8th
Trying to get up and do laundry, etc. Keep collapsing, but I decide I havent had enough food. I eat normal meals to get my strength back.
Monday june 9th
I have to go get my car from work (its still there). My mom comes to drive me. I drive it home and it is quite scary. When I move my head, everything seems like it is in slow motion. Not spinning, but way off. By the time I get home I have been vetical for about 4 hours, and am exhausted and collapse in bed. At night my neck pain is really bad.
tuesday june 10th (today)
I have kevin drive me to the dr office. I forgot to mention that while I was sick on thursday he got his drivers license. Yeah! Anyway, they put me thru a bunch of tests (to make sure I didnt have a stroke) and they decided I had inflammation of the inner ear. It should be better on its own in about 2 weeks! Yuck thats too long. I figure I have had it for a week already though, so maybe one more week, maybe less. They gave me some medicine to stop the spinning. They figure the virus I had triggered it somehow. And they took blood! I avoid this whenever possible. I have no veins. None. I make the blood takers cry. Me too. Anyway, they say, oh travis is good, dont worry. I ask for the butterfly things, to make it easier. So travis comes in and says he has a 99.9% efficiency for getting it on the first time. Said he was a once shot guy. Anyway he checks my arms for awhile. Does the rubber bandy thing around them. Nothing there . Surprise! He tries to get my hand, but it bursts. He says I blew his stats. He finally gets it tho on my ring finger knuckle. They think I am coming back for a cholesterol check!
Anyway, I feel ok, but am not getting much done, and exercise is nonexistent of course.
Sorry about the freakishly long post.
Of course, DH said what do we want to watch a horse race for? I said, it's not the race, but the party on the infield that I wanted to go to 
Either this weekend or Tuesday I plan to pick it back up. I just use the treadmill at the gym which has the benefit of telling me how much time, how fast, and how many calories burned. When I was doing it at home I used the stopwatch though. I like the music timing thing better though 
I have everything from Jimmy Buffett to Barenaked ladies to the Clash on it! Of course it will be better when I have longer intervals. With 60 and 90 seconds, it does get choppy! But, hey, I wont have to look at a stopwatch, just switch it up when the song changes.
