The Bug That Won't Die!

It all started the night of Christmas Eve. I spent the week before the holiday preparing the house to host Christmas Eve with his family, and Christmas Day with mine, so I had a lot of shopping, cooking, and baking to get done, along with making sure the house was nice and company clean, so I wasn't getting much sleep at night. All was well though, until Christmas Eve night. Everyone left, I got comfy in my jammies, cuddled up my blanket in bed, and fell fast asleep...and woke around around 3am with a cold.

It hit me out of nowhere, and I spent Christmas Day feeling worse and worse as the day went on, so that by the time dinner hit I was ready to pack it in. I figured it happened when I wasn't getting a lot of rest, and spending a lot of time at the store where I was bound to get germs.

Of course, being a stay at home mom, it was just a few days later that the little man woke up with congestion and a cough, and I knew he got hit with the bug too. A few days after that, hubby started in with a cough, which turned into a horrible cough, and eventually needed a trip to the ER which told us he had a severe case of bronchitis.

So here we were, miserable for the start of the new year, but eventually started feeling better....until the baby started sneezing...a lot...and always on me. Then I got the sniffles...hubby got them too. Then, we were better again.

Now, round 3 has hit us. I started last weekend, with a sudden hit of a cold turned into a horrible sinus infection. Now as I am starting to finally be able to breathe again and smell things (which was nice not to smell dirty diapers for a change), the little one has gotten the cold again, and hubby is back to his coughing fits. I am now playing nurse maid to sickies, and wondering why no one played nurse maid to me.

I am trying so so hard to get this cold bug out of our house once and for all, because this passing it back and forth to each other is just wearing us out. Poor hubby has been sleeping on the couch so he doesn't have so many coughing fits, but also so he doesn't pass it onto me, and I have been using Lysol on every surface several times a day. I also had been keeping the windows open during the day, but with the recent Arctic cold blast we've had, that hasn't been an option.

The worst is that I hate seeing my little man sick. Yesterday he looked so pale, with bags under his eyes and a little red nose. But God love him, he is the best, even when sick. He just plays and plays, not as hard as when he is feeling well, but still has so much he has to get done with those toys. Luckily, he is finally feeling well enough to sleep through the night again. The other night, when I was still feeling at my worst, I had less then an hour sleep when he woke up whining, and was up from 2am until 6am. Every time I put him down for bed, he'd just stand there and his face would crumple and tears would fall. How do you not pick him up!?

So here is hoping all the Lysol in the world, and sleeping in separate rooms, will finally put us on the road back to good health.

Still sicky...

I am still sick with this cold/allergies/whatever the hell it is that is making me not breathe. Work the past two days has been murder almost, last night I could barely keep my eyes open because of the sinus pressure in my head, and I haven't been able to really sleep in the past three days. Either I wake up coughing or sneezing like every 5 mins when I try to lay down. Poor Phil went to sleep on the couch at 2am because I was keeping him up and I felt so bad, but he said he wanted me to have the bed so I could get rest. Too bad rest never happened. Today was payday though, and I was able to get some Tylenol Severe Sinus Congestion pills, which has always helped me when I am really sick like this, and already the pressue in my head is getting better, and my sinus's are slowly clearing. I am hoping that by this time tomorrow I feel a lot better, and work will be more tolerable. I also hope I can get some real sleep tonight. I also have my appetite back some, in the past 3 days all I've had to eat was a bagel last night, and 2 popsicles before work today. I didn't feel like grocery shopping tonight, and pizza sounded so good since we haven't had it in so long, so right now we are waiting for the Papa John's guy. I love their Chicken, Bacon, and Ranch pizza, and I get it with ham also.

Achooo...

It has been a long time since I've had a cold this nasty, and this thing is really wiping me out! I thought at first I just had bad allergies because they have been planting a lot of flowers around here the past week, and both our allergies started acting up. But he started feeling better, and I just kept getting worse. Yesterday I thought I was bad, but today I am worse. I've almost lost my voice, which is going to make work fun tonight, seeing as the whole point of being a greeter is to actually talk and greet people. My glands are swollen and are very tender, and my throat feels like it is on fire, and my nose is either stuffed up, or can't stop running. I just really feel miserable, and I haven't had a cold this bad in a long time. But I guess it was inevitable, the weather has been warming up, yet as soon as I get into work it is freezing, and customers are coming in sick with their returns, and associates are sick too. So right now I am trying to get as much rest as possible, but I work the next 6 days in a row. I am actually grateful that I am only working 4 hours a day these next 6 days, because it means I can rest more before going to work, and then can come home and go right to bed. Right now I am trying to eat a little something, but I have no appetite and it hurts so much to swallow. Ugh, I hate being sick....