Crap on a stick
I got up this morning and tried to run, again (I tried last weekend to do this too–figuring it would be good for me, even though I suck at running and breathing at the same time). I got up, put on my shoes, and took a very short jog. I didn’t have much time, but I thought something was better than nothing.
As usual, my lungs hated me pretty quickly. I know I don’t breathe right when I try to jog and I have to learn how to release the tension in my shoulders, but this felt a little different. I got home and, in fairly short order, had a bit of a coughing fit. The same kind of cough I usually get at the end of a cold/flu. And I felt a bit like I had a fat man sitting on my chest which is also how I tend to feel at the end of my colds. Now, I haven’t been sick-sick, but I haven’t been 100% lately. I thought it was just stress/school exhaustion…maybe it was something more?
And so I went to school. Somewhere near the end of my Property tutoring class my head started to throb a bit. Then I got the chills. Crap…I’m sick.
I made it through Contracts, but then came home after that–skipping CivPro, unfortunately. I’m not terribly sick, but I do have a head that feels like it’s full of mercury, I could hardly follow what happened in Contracts, and I’m just tired. I’ve been flopped on the couch since. Achy joints, burning eyes, headache, but no fever according to the thermometer.
Now this particularly sucks because I’m supposed to go to a study session tomorrow morning and then tomorrow evening is game night with “the girls” from school–something I am so looking forward to! But, I will not go if I think I’m even vaguely ill–I don’t want to get anyone else sick!
We’re getting down to the end of the trimester, so illness now is not good. That’s part of why I left early today–because I thought it was better to rest now and heal sooner than to push it and miss lots of school. I’m thinking that if I stay “down” this weekend, I can get better and be ready to go Monday morning again.
In the meanwhile, it sucks.