Powering Through
Apr. 27th, 2016 08:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thepnutgalleryIn spite of having gotten to sleep so late, I was surprisingly not tired when I woke up. I took a shower, and even my sinuses felt much better, so I went into work.
This was a huge mistake.
My sinuses got worse and worse as the day went on, so my fever got worse and worse. Adding to that, the vegetable broth I bought from TJ’s *really* didn’t agree with my stomach, and I thought I might do a dramatic re-enactment of Christmas Eve, vomiting long past anything actually being in my stomach, to the point where I’m heaving saliva and stomach fluid into a cup at my desk. Particularly when I laid down on my lunch break and my office cranked up the AC, clearly trying to bury me in snow. Mostly, I was concerned about making mistakes while I was in my fevered state, so I tried to review everything twice before I moved on.
By the end of the work day, my fever had broken, I had some of the leftover Greek food and headed home to rest.
Ryan had contacted me last week about giving his mom rides home from the La Jolla hospital after visiting him for surgery, but I’m not going to drive to or from La Jolla at 5pm. Also, if I hadn’t been sick this week, I’d have been going to the gym. Ryan was happy to see me, his mom is a nice lady who might have been trying to probe me for information on her son’s substance use. She tried to pay me for gas, but I don’t know her financial situation, so I declined.
I couldn’t sleep until well after 1am.
This was a huge mistake.
My sinuses got worse and worse as the day went on, so my fever got worse and worse. Adding to that, the vegetable broth I bought from TJ’s *really* didn’t agree with my stomach, and I thought I might do a dramatic re-enactment of Christmas Eve, vomiting long past anything actually being in my stomach, to the point where I’m heaving saliva and stomach fluid into a cup at my desk. Particularly when I laid down on my lunch break and my office cranked up the AC, clearly trying to bury me in snow. Mostly, I was concerned about making mistakes while I was in my fevered state, so I tried to review everything twice before I moved on.
By the end of the work day, my fever had broken, I had some of the leftover Greek food and headed home to rest.
Ryan had contacted me last week about giving his mom rides home from the La Jolla hospital after visiting him for surgery, but I’m not going to drive to or from La Jolla at 5pm. Also, if I hadn’t been sick this week, I’d have been going to the gym. Ryan was happy to see me, his mom is a nice lady who might have been trying to probe me for information on her son’s substance use. She tried to pay me for gas, but I don’t know her financial situation, so I declined.
I couldn’t sleep until well after 1am.
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