on sinus infections

Let's see somewhere over Memorial Day weekend I had a cold.  I thought that by Wednesday I was getting better. At about 11:00 am on Thursday, June 1st, during Ryan's gymnastics class I decided the cold had gotten worse.  Basically, I have been to the doctor's office 3 times and have a prescription nasal spray and 2 antibiotics plus Sudafed, Mucinex and tylenol with codeine.  Yes, it was awful.  Yes, I'm so glad to be in the land of the living again.

Just this Monday when by the evening things were getting better, I tried a Neti Pot.  So ridiculous but I'm thinking it did some good too.  I don't want go into the details but it's basically a nasal rinse flushing thing.  Amazing what the body can store up in there.

On the other side of this whole craziness is the fact that I am taking an antibiotic now that according to the nurse practitioner will "kill all of the bacteria in my body."  Hooray and boo.  While I'm not the biggest worrier out there I am ingesting a good helping of yogurt everyday for the next couple of weeks just to make sure.

My mom calls this the year of the plague... I would agree and it has been sent from Satan himself.

I think I can say this without jinxing myself

I haven't had a cold in like forever! WOOHOO! Last year, I think I was sick from about somewhere in October to, oh, somewhere in March with a sinus infection in between that needed antibiotics. Good times. I really haven't felt sick at all and in fact everyone in the family here was sick about a week or so ago and I didn't feel a pinch of anything. Hopefully all that horrible-ness from last year gave me the cold fighting force field of a preschool teacher.

Today, it was nice and warm and no one was sick so we played in the kiddie pool. Good times. If you follow me on facebook then you've seen this photo and the comment I made. If you don't here are my comments. When I look at this photo I think: 1) Goggles are key. Check! 2) BWAHAHAHAHAH! 3) I love my children.

dude.

Ashleigh woke up at about 4ish this morning and snuggled into bed with us... she has a horrible cough and her nose is stuffy.  Dude.  We've only been back to school for 2 days and already one of us is going down with a cold?  Dude.  

We need to stock up on this.

Summer colds are bogus.

It went from Ashleigh to me to now Ryan... drats.

(Ryan desperately trying to stay awake and hold his own head up during homemade spaghetti dinner *his favorite*  tonight.)

Today.

We spent a good portion of the day hanging out since I am sick again... the little boy is too. We did manage to get ourselves together enough to make it to Ashleigh's Spanish class and walk around the park for a bit, too.


I think I have had more days of sick than non-sick since, oh, about, Halloween. Hooray! Boo! On January 7th, Dave and I went to the doctor to find out that we both had sinus infections... and now I have a sore throat and that wretched cough again... dammit. I hadn't been to the doctor's for a cold since I was about 22 or so... a long, long time ago.


Anyway, I haven't scrapbooked in a long time either... my stuff is super organized and I have a ton of ideas... just haven't... don't know what it is outside of being sick but I just haven't pulled myself or my stuff together to make a page. It'll happen though, I know.


Here's a recent shot that definitely will go down in the scrapbook. I think I might title it "What happens on a rainy day in our house?"





Another shot of the boy on the day we celebrated his birthday at Tilden Park's Steam Trains in Berkeley... when we got there he kept saying, "Hear it! Choo trains!" Sigh... and my heart melts again because of him.

Today.

So I've got a cold... went from Ryan to Ashleigh to Dave to me. Lovely. I'm at that point in the cold process where your nose is all full and tingly and you sneeze a lot and your head is full and your throat is scratchy and you just want to sleep and you feel achy. Yup, that's where I'm at... and I hope that I did not give my cold to a little baby we saw last weekend... I really hope I didn't.

It was "Picture Day" at preschool this morning... sigh. For some strange reason before school, Ashleigh got scared so what did this mom who is not ashamed to bribe her daughter do? I told her if she smiled really cute for the photographer, I'd give her strawberry ice cream right after school... nice, huh? Y'know, turns out she did just fine and, in fact, has completely forgotten about the ice cream... :)