I have been rotting in bed like a pasty Victorian child since last Sunday. It’s been 8 days of fevers, chills, postpartum levels of sweating, coughing up goo, headaches and the worst farts imaginable. My dogs won’t even stay in the room with me. My spouse has been giving side hugs like we are at church camp because I’m a walking biohazard. My 4yr old said I sound like a monster when I cough and has been bringing me her favorite stuffed animals because I think she’s worried I’m dying.
We are moving this summer so I have been hoarding my PTO because god knows I’ll need it for the seventh circle of hell that is packing and unpacking. But now I’m forced to use some of it because I’m an exhausted working parent with an immune system fueled by anti-depressant (shout out Trintillex), coffee, and left over apple slices.
I am so sick looking that my male doctor actually believed me. Instead of just calling me fat, telling me it’s just anxiety and to sleep more, he actually prescribed me a bunch of meds. That would have been a win except none of it is helping. I thought maybe I could work today after 4 days of antibiotics, steroids, nasal washes, antihistamines, fluids, vitamins, blah blah blah…but I was wrong. I made it through one teams meeting that could have been an email and the fever came back.
Modern medicine has failed me, what hippy dippy remedies work for you? I need this crap to go away like yesterday so I if I need to snort garlic and put potatoes in my socks I’m willing to try it.
Edit: y’all are so nice
. I just wanted to write a silly rant because I’ve been bored out of my disease infested mind and y’all made my day much better.
I promise if I’m not improving by Wednesday, the timeline male doctor gave me, I will go back to the doctor. I’ll even try to see a woman doctor!
Also I really did take (most) of your remedies to heart. Sambucus elderberry gummies are delicious. Zinc nose swabs are gross but doable. Oregano oil capsules aren’t that bad, and raw garlic is
. Going to make some witchy ass ginger clove cinnamon tea before bed. Drinking tons of fluids and taking tomorrow off to rest before I get pneumonia and die, or worse, have to use all of my PTO. Thanks ladies.
We are moving this summer so I have been hoarding my PTO because god knows I’ll need it for the seventh circle of hell that is packing and unpacking. But now I’m forced to use some of it because I’m an exhausted working parent with an immune system fueled by anti-depressant (shout out Trintillex), coffee, and left over apple slices.
I am so sick looking that my male doctor actually believed me. Instead of just calling me fat, telling me it’s just anxiety and to sleep more, he actually prescribed me a bunch of meds. That would have been a win except none of it is helping. I thought maybe I could work today after 4 days of antibiotics, steroids, nasal washes, antihistamines, fluids, vitamins, blah blah blah…but I was wrong. I made it through one teams meeting that could have been an email and the fever came back.
Modern medicine has failed me, what hippy dippy remedies work for you? I need this crap to go away like yesterday so I if I need to snort garlic and put potatoes in my socks I’m willing to try it.
Edit: y’all are so nice
. I just wanted to write a silly rant because I’ve been bored out of my disease infested mind and y’all made my day much better. I promise if I’m not improving by Wednesday, the timeline male doctor gave me, I will go back to the doctor. I’ll even try to see a woman doctor!
Also I really did take (most) of your remedies to heart. Sambucus elderberry gummies are delicious. Zinc nose swabs are gross but doable. Oregano oil capsules aren’t that bad, and raw garlic is
. Going to make some witchy ass ginger clove cinnamon tea before bed. Drinking tons of fluids and taking tomorrow off to rest before I get pneumonia and die, or worse, have to use all of my PTO. Thanks ladies.
i hope you feel better soon!
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