Worst. Cold. Ever.

This has been a miserable 2 weeks of illness in the family, particularly for me.  First, I got food poisoning.  Had a weekend to recover.  Then Matt was sick for a day, and then Natalie ended up missing 4 days of school due to a fever.  Turned out to be just a cold.  Well, my 2 days of staying home to watch her resulted in me, in turn, catching her cold.  I went back to work briefly on Thursday but by Thursday evening, I was starting to feel congested.

I didn’t go to work on Friday, Monday or today (Tuesday) and I highly doubt I will go in tomorrow.  I have the worst cold.  Already went to see the doctor — ears are fine, unlikely it’s the flu as I really haven’t had much of a fever (minor, low grade briefly).  I’ve just been super congested and it’s moved from my head to my chest with my sinuses still under pressure constantly.  I can’t count how many tissue boxes I have gone through and I’ve just been in pajamas nonstop.  I can’t even be a somewhat productive sick where I can work from home a bit — I’m so knocked over that all I can do is zone out on a couch or the bed.

I’m hoping the worst is over and I’ll wake up tomorrow feeling less congested and on the road to recovery.  For now, I feel like I’ve missed out on so much work (during a crazy crunch time part of the year) and done absolutely nothing.  I don’t even have the energy to fold laundry or even upload pictures online.  I’m just tired and congested and sick and tired and congested…whine whine.  I think this is seriously the first time I’ve gotten sick from Natalie.  What is it about picking up a cold from your child? — it’s like they have an advanced strain that only people born in this millennium can handle.  I’ve been knocked over sideways and hope this ends soon.