stomach virus...
if you don't want to read abut stomach viruses, don't read this!! I am going in great detail so I can remember how lucky I am to not be sick on a daily basis. I am 4 days post stomach virus. Yes, of course, Thursday morning at around 0100, I began to get uncontrollably tired. I passed out at my desk here at work. when I did wake up, my body ached like it had been ran over by 395 coal trucks. then I got up to get a cup of coffee for a resident, and felt the all over achiness and mild nausea give way. I got him a snack and a cup of coffee quickly and sat back down to try and convince myself it was just sour stomach, knowing Tommy was at home suffering from the stomach bug. no less than an hour and a Zofran later.. I was in the work bathroom facing one of my biggest fears/phobias... vomiting at work, stomach virus full fledged.... orange pop, two cups of chocolate pudding, and a sandwich ...all of which I had consumed since 2300 Wednesday night, since I had relatively starved myself the whole day for fear of getting the bug. hence the reason this cup of chocolate pudding is wilting in front of me right now, its too soon... around 0230 I finally called desperately for help, because an 0200 narc was now 30 minutes past due, "please come give this medication, I can't come out of the bathroom, I'm not going to make it here tonight. I have to go home!" my charge nurse finally came to my rescue two puking sessions later at around 0400. I had been in the bathroom putting hand sanitizer on my right (favorite pair of jeans) pants leg/sock/shoe since my first round of vomit was projectile to the point to where even though I had the garbage can tucked between my legs, it still gave way down the inside of my pantsleg. damn casual wednesdays. really? I gave some sort of report, and had done relatively NOTHING past midnight because I had been passed out and sitting in pain since basically 0030. I had tried to tell my charge nurse I was getting sick, but she refused to believe me, she just didn't want to have to try and cover me since we were short in the morning on my unit anyway. so, after giving my crappy little report...I finally made it out of here around 0415. I grabbed a wash basin and lined it with some Kleenexes on my way out. drug myself to the double doors and punched in the code, swiped my badge and clocked out, and pushed my way to my vehicle in the cold. I sat down, never imagining I'd be so sick in my LIFE (this is my mindset every time I get the stomach bug btw). I started my vehicle, turned on a LITTLE heat, don't wanna over do It, turned on the heated seats, aka "seat-a-heat" ...and sat my stuff in the passenger seat as I always do. I sat for a minute, and then said screw it, and pulled out with a vengeance. I was so determined to actually get home, and so afraid I wouldn't be able to pull over soon enough if I had the absolute need to throw up, which was constant, but sometimes uncontrollable. I was just praying that "uncontrollable" part would come once I got home to a bathroom with a toilet and proper puking outlet, aka garbage can. I made it about 10-11 minutes down the road, I was in to leslie county, the tree that was on fire on my way to work at 11 was still on fire but almost out, and I made it to McIntosh church of god. I pulled over in their spacious parking lot, and filled my little wash basin full. first time I'd ever had to 'pull over and puke'. ugh. not a great experience. looks like that night was full of first experiences for me. lol. I am pathetic. so whenever I got home, I gathered up my little puke basin, sloshing all the way to the front door and grabbed the handle of the storm door and realized before I left, I had locked it from the inside. great. so I threw a miniature mental fit, and stomped my foot... most I could without sloshing puke out of my stomach and my basin... and headed down the steps and around the front yard to the back and up the back porch. finally I'm inside the house. shed my clothes. find my PJ's in the little stack I left them in the night before. sit down, prop my puke basin on top of the garbage can that Tommy had previously been puking in. put the Lysol and Clorox spray away, seeing as Shade is already staying with my mom to keep him out of the 'disease pit' ... no need to clean to protect myself, I've already got it. so one more round of puking and I go snuggle in bed with tommy. he was surprised to see me home a little after 0500... he actually looked at me like "wtf?" but then he realized what was going on whenever I basically fell into my pillow. I actually slept uninterrupted like 30 minutes. I thought I had gotten the worst of it over with, because I had puked like 4 separate sessions, figured maybe it was over with, it had been going on for about 4 hours at this point. but no, in about 45 minutes I had puked again, but that was the worst, nothing but stomach acid. painful! & then about an hour later, at this point it was like 0800.. I had to FORCE myself to puke by poking my belly and making it slosh around. I had sipped on 7up just for the sole fact to make sure I had something to puke up. and after that, I had a sudden feeling it was all over...well, the puking. my whole body was sore, and it was all I could do to turn over. so I finally slept a few hours and it was glorious. we stayed in bed ALL day. by the end of the day, we were sore all over, and had managed to eat some pretzels, and I had drank some juice, and had a whole cup of ice cubes. that was also glorious, except I was eating it so fast it was making me kind of queasy all over again. we watched a whole season of dexter, and started watching greys anatomy. I remember staying up til about 0200 Friday morning... and finally crashing. when tommy got up the next morning he went to pick up Shade (who had to be rescued from Maggie's house by my mom, she had to leave work like an hour into her shift bc of course Maggie started to get sick, she always picks up what we have no matter what lol... idk why, idk if its where she stays kind of sick all the time?) from my mom's house and I ended up sleeping til 4pm.. but I was SO glad to see my baby boy. I had spent 2 nights without him!
but anyway, we missed the KPP Christmas party. which sucked, but probably saved me $$ in the long run, because we didn't get any outfits for it ahead of time. glad now that I didn't order that $100 dress I was looking at a month ago. I would've been furious. I'm bummed we didn't go, but oh well. we also didn't get to finish our Christmas shopping either. I had a wedding cancel, which is $500 less i'll have for the holidays :( but, I guess i'll finish everything out with this next check, and since I have that day off then we'll just go then (the 14th). I didn't want to go that close to Christmas, I wanted to have it all done by now, and I didn't want to spend our paycheck on finishing it up, but it couldn't be helped I don't guess. I hate when people make commitments they can't keep. but anyways, there are a few straggling Christmas presents coming in the mail this week.. and I have resorted to the thought that I am just going to get everyone freaking gift sets for Christmas, bc nobody will tell me what anyone wants... and I suck at giving gifts. I just hope I can find some cute stuff, and not spend a fortune. I expected this to be a nicer Christmas for everyone, but at least it is for Shade, and Tommy is getting some pretty good gifts too, and everyone else will get nice stuff, just not anything like I had planned... oh well. I cant figure out what to get anyone and nobody will hint for you or go digging for info for people! so screw it :| I don't have time to figure it out.
the parade of lights is Friday, and I'm excited to take shade to it... get some hot cocoa and watch the parade :) he loves stuff like that. his quote of the day "there's a dinosaur in my butt!" ...not sure why he said that lol. he screamed and cried the whole time we showered today! he LOVES baths but today he just wasn't feeling it. bipolar toddlers, I tell ya. my Christmas cards are going out in the mail tomorrow morning if I can freaking remember to send them, lol. I'm mailing like 90% of them because I don't feel like fooling with waiting on people to come up that never will.
its snowing out. has been since about 0100-0200. looks like its sticking on the cars/grass for now. but my car basically doesn't go on anything but flat, dry roads. speaking of that... I am going to have to look in to trading my vehicle. bad as I hate to. I love this car. but, I just don't have any control of it on wet/cold roads. esp snow. and I live in BFE now, which was NOT anywhere in the plans whenever I first purchased it. so hopefully I can maybe find something comparable, same payment, newer, with all wheel or 4 wheel drive... and the same type of features.
I finished a BUNCH Of my statistics homework, and now have my grade up to a D letter grade, which is fine with me, considering I was 6-8 weeks behind without a book and even got kicked out of the class and then back in again, and she even lowered the workload which made the grading scale higher... harder even, so I'm not complaining. I'm shooting to do one or two more lessons and maybe a test before the 12th if I can, maybe bring it up to a C, but idk if it's possible, we shall see. I passed my first semester BSN classes with a 84, and considering again I was without a book for 6-8 weeks, and wrote my scholarly paper that most people spent months on in 3 hours... I'm not complaining. hell, that's better than what I made in nursing school. so hopefully this coming semester I can concentrate more on my BSN classes instead of some other random useless math class. ughhh.
busy night so far.. this morning when I get home, I plan to do my t25 workout and get back on track with that since we couldn't when we were sick, so we are just starting over, and I'm doing Monday's this morning and will do Tuesdays this evening with tommy so that way I will be on track even though it means doubling up on my work out. I can't wait to sleep, that is if I get home on these roads. wish me luck. all I want to do is cuddle Shade! I've had 3 nights off with him and its spoiled me. only the rest of this shift (3.5 more hours) and two 8 hour shifts stand between being able to spend 3 more nights off with him :-) and I hope to get my kitchen straightened up in between, those boxes have to go or I will hurt someone!! and I HAVE to finish painting/trimming!! I can't even take it. maybe I can do that this week/next week between shifts and finish up the weekend before Christmas.
sheww, god I have rambled enough.
nightnight.
but anyway, we missed the KPP Christmas party. which sucked, but probably saved me $$ in the long run, because we didn't get any outfits for it ahead of time. glad now that I didn't order that $100 dress I was looking at a month ago. I would've been furious. I'm bummed we didn't go, but oh well. we also didn't get to finish our Christmas shopping either. I had a wedding cancel, which is $500 less i'll have for the holidays :( but, I guess i'll finish everything out with this next check, and since I have that day off then we'll just go then (the 14th). I didn't want to go that close to Christmas, I wanted to have it all done by now, and I didn't want to spend our paycheck on finishing it up, but it couldn't be helped I don't guess. I hate when people make commitments they can't keep. but anyways, there are a few straggling Christmas presents coming in the mail this week.. and I have resorted to the thought that I am just going to get everyone freaking gift sets for Christmas, bc nobody will tell me what anyone wants... and I suck at giving gifts. I just hope I can find some cute stuff, and not spend a fortune. I expected this to be a nicer Christmas for everyone, but at least it is for Shade, and Tommy is getting some pretty good gifts too, and everyone else will get nice stuff, just not anything like I had planned... oh well. I cant figure out what to get anyone and nobody will hint for you or go digging for info for people! so screw it :| I don't have time to figure it out.
the parade of lights is Friday, and I'm excited to take shade to it... get some hot cocoa and watch the parade :) he loves stuff like that. his quote of the day "there's a dinosaur in my butt!" ...not sure why he said that lol. he screamed and cried the whole time we showered today! he LOVES baths but today he just wasn't feeling it. bipolar toddlers, I tell ya. my Christmas cards are going out in the mail tomorrow morning if I can freaking remember to send them, lol. I'm mailing like 90% of them because I don't feel like fooling with waiting on people to come up that never will.
its snowing out. has been since about 0100-0200. looks like its sticking on the cars/grass for now. but my car basically doesn't go on anything but flat, dry roads. speaking of that... I am going to have to look in to trading my vehicle. bad as I hate to. I love this car. but, I just don't have any control of it on wet/cold roads. esp snow. and I live in BFE now, which was NOT anywhere in the plans whenever I first purchased it. so hopefully I can maybe find something comparable, same payment, newer, with all wheel or 4 wheel drive... and the same type of features.
I finished a BUNCH Of my statistics homework, and now have my grade up to a D letter grade, which is fine with me, considering I was 6-8 weeks behind without a book and even got kicked out of the class and then back in again, and she even lowered the workload which made the grading scale higher... harder even, so I'm not complaining. I'm shooting to do one or two more lessons and maybe a test before the 12th if I can, maybe bring it up to a C, but idk if it's possible, we shall see. I passed my first semester BSN classes with a 84, and considering again I was without a book for 6-8 weeks, and wrote my scholarly paper that most people spent months on in 3 hours... I'm not complaining. hell, that's better than what I made in nursing school. so hopefully this coming semester I can concentrate more on my BSN classes instead of some other random useless math class. ughhh.
busy night so far.. this morning when I get home, I plan to do my t25 workout and get back on track with that since we couldn't when we were sick, so we are just starting over, and I'm doing Monday's this morning and will do Tuesdays this evening with tommy so that way I will be on track even though it means doubling up on my work out. I can't wait to sleep, that is if I get home on these roads. wish me luck. all I want to do is cuddle Shade! I've had 3 nights off with him and its spoiled me. only the rest of this shift (3.5 more hours) and two 8 hour shifts stand between being able to spend 3 more nights off with him :-) and I hope to get my kitchen straightened up in between, those boxes have to go or I will hurt someone!! and I HAVE to finish painting/trimming!! I can't even take it. maybe I can do that this week/next week between shifts and finish up the weekend before Christmas.
sheww, god I have rambled enough.
nightnight.
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