I don’t want to gross you out with the gory details but it’s been an ugly week for me. About 3 weeks ago I woke up with what seemed like the flu, but got over it. However, the cough lingered a bit longer. Last Tuesday, I woke up with a horrible, hacking cough and it’s been hell ever since.
I coughed so much I was throwing up(sorry, gory details). Eventually, I had to give in and go to the emergency room because my doctor couldn’t see me. They ruled out pneumonia with a chest xray. After they sucked all the blood out of my body (lots n lots of vials) and ran some tests, it was determined I have bronchitis. So five hours later, while driving out of the hospital parking lot, I threw up the antibiotic I had taken.
After we got the meds prescribed, I went home (thank God my mom was with me) and just tried to get some sleep. The coughing had not let me sleep for a couple of days and I’m just exhausted.
I’m the kind of person that doesn’t like to go to the doctor unless it’s ….well…no other alternative. So I get home and take the Robitussin with CODEIN thinking that will help me sleep….but no…it makes me vomit. Then I try the inhaler, and that made me feel jittery, although it did help the cough. I ate some crackers and some broth and again, had to vomit. So, in a nutshell, that’s the kind of week I’ve had.
Today I woke up feeling a bit dizzy. I drank some warm broth (1/4 cup) and a cracker. AND YAY, didn’t throw up. I’m going to have a little gatorade in a little bit and see if that stays down. If not, I’m going right back to the E.R. because I feel the dehydration symptoms coming on.
ON A GOOD NOTE ?………lost 6 pounds this week! The irony is that this past month I have eaten the healthiest ever and yet have been the sickest ever……go figure.
Not fun!
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You know you have no life when you get excited about what you ate and feel an urgency to blog about it. It wasnt anything from a fancy restaurant or cafe, it was something really simple created in my own kitchen with my mini-cuisinart. I love that thing. I love hummus! It’s so easy to make yet so satisfying! What Ive been doing is preparing hummus for the week and then adding it to whatever I can. Last week, while making tuna I substituted the mayo with hummus and it was really yummy. I get a can of chick peas ( I can just eat them out of the can), onions, garlic (love garlic) and lemon juice and blend it all up in the cuisinart.
my stash of fruits and veggies
