Sick...and Tired....

I was awakened Monday morning by a terrible sore throat. It felt like someone was stabbing my throat with a knife...Ouch... What was it? I was afraid it was strep and going to work would just get everyone else sick. I had to go to the doctor for this one. Bummer... and a little nerve racking. Using my own insurance card and going to the doctor by myself is not something I have done. I called and made an appointment after some coaxing by my roommate Hannah. Who I'm sure was just like will you just do it already you big baby. lol... and I was. I'm sorry I'm 27 and I don't get sick that often so going to a doctor doesn't happen that often.
When I got to the doctor's office I was greeted by the secretary and office manager that had a whole butt load of paperwork for me to fill out. I was informed that I hadn't been in since 2004. Which is a good thing right?
Doing paperwork isn't fun even when your not sick let alone when you can't swallow for fear that your throat is going to tear into two. I finally got into the doc's office. the nurse took a swab of my throat the Dr. Batum came in and had breath for him a few hundred times he looked at the back of my throat and in my ears and then was off and back within like 5 min. I thought that was pretty quick considering that most of the time your left sitting for like 25 min. for the doctor to even find his way to you. I'm not even sure what I have really he never gave me the diagnoses. he just said your contagious for the next 24 hours and I'm writing you a prescription here's some nose spray. WHAT?!? I hate nose spray...yuck I have to stick something up my nose... I think I'm going to throw up ( I really almost did).
After leaving the doc's office I exposed a lot of people to whatever I had. All I had was a sore throat though so I decided to be productive. I stopped and got gas on my way home because it was pretty cheap in Bountiful. Then I decided now was as good a time as any to renew my license since it was 2 months late. I mean why not???? Ha ha the whole Drivers license division is going to get sick ha ha suckers. Then I had to pick up my medicine which was full price because my insurance sucks. gotta love deductibles. I got home finally around 5 and just wanted to die but I needed to take some medicine and then I needed to go to the store and get some juice and some decongestant.
Bah... great I have to miss another day of work. I didn't really feel that sick just a sore throat. Although the doctor wanted to know if I had been coughing a lot. No... not a cough or a stuffy nose just a sore throat!!! Now I was taking all of this medicine some of which I felt wasn't necessary(like the nose spray). I don't have a stuffy nose... why do I need nose spray?
I ended up being grateful for not being able to go into work on Tuesday. I didn't feel any better in fact I felt worse. It was all that medicine... it made me worse before I started getting better. I felt like I got hit by a truck. Crap...I missed another day of work but I was mending slowly. I got out of bed on Wednesday and needed to get out of the house. I couldn't spend another day inside. a good sign that I was mending. I took a trip to one of my favorite places. The Bountiful Temple and then I stopped and saw my niece and sister in law. I loved it. I knew for sure that I was going to be back at work today and doing well. I feel much better now and even the gross nose spray that I still have to do for one more day is helping.
Being sick has thrown my schedule way off though. I had some great plans that were dashed by a small sore throat. Hopefully it won't effect anything to long term. I still want my bicycle. Running unfortunately has been put off for another week.

Running Update

Ha ha...I thought I'd give you an update on how my training's been going. It's not going anywhere....lol... I haven't been running more than once a week if that for about 4 weeks now. I need to run I know it would be good for me, but try to talk myself into it is another thing. I like running it clears my mind. It's really finding the time to go running. I have time to go in the morning if I want to get my butt out of bed. I like my bed especially in the morning when I'm wrapped in my warm blankets and laying on my squashy pillow. I don't want to move. I tried this morning to get out of bed. I didn't get too far... I got as far as stretching looking at my alarm thinking if Meg gets up then I'll get up. I reluctantly turned on my light on my bed stand and pulled my blanket off....I waited for about 10 minutes. I didn't hear Meg get up and I started getting a chill so I turned my light back off and pulled my blanket back up around me and slept for another 2 1/2 hours before I had to be to work.
I should have just done it though. Just get my big butt out of bed and go for a run it would have woken me up enough to make it through the day and then I wouldn't feel like i weigh hundreds of pounds more than I do.
Oh... well here's to doing better tomorrow.