OK, so that implies way more death than actually happened-- there wasn't any death, just flu. But flu... well, you know, it kinda feels liked death!
I started feeling a little tired on Friday, but that's not unusual, a Friday night is generally low key for us because after a week with crazy kids... you gotta have a little rest! We had John and Paige over for macaroni and cheese-- used ziti and mozarella and parmesean, then added in shredded prosciutto. SO good! Our bacon m'n'c was delicious, but the prosciutto hit the nail on the head. We got them to play a little bit of Mario Kart, which was a BLAST, and played with my new Evo 4G and tried out John's mint juleps for Paige's 40th this weekend. (a vintage cocktail party-- sooo cute!)
Saturday we were both totally exhausted and I was having trouble breathing, so I started using my inhaler and stayed in bed to rest. My throat started to swell up, which is always worrisome, but I thought maybe staying hydrated would keep whatever it was at bay.
Round about midnight my opinion got changed real quick! I woke up and realized I'd been having fever dreams, but not having any acetaminophen I took some ibuprofen and tried to go back to bed. I slept feverishly for a while and moved out to the couch. By 1p, I was in tons of pain and couldn't breathe, couldn't even swallow, so we decided to head to the ER. John works at Emory and it's close by, and we happened to run in to them on our way out so he called ahead to make sure the wait wouldn't be too long.
When we got there, my heart rate was over 140, I was running a fever of 99.5 (I'm guessing I'd been running one of 99-101 since midnight Sat/Sun), and was completely dehydrated so they got me in and put me in a room pretty quickly. The nurses were really nice and hooked me up to 2L of fluids, got me some stuff to get my fever down and keep my throat from swelling any further. We did get stuck there for quite some time after my chest x-rays came back, but at least we were in a room with a TV and plenty of ginger ale!
I'm doing better today, no fevers since yesterday, and my heart rate has normalized, so now I just have to rest up so I can attempt to get back to work soon! The ER doc told me to stay out for an entire week-- that's one of the problems with being a program director, you can't take time off like that!
Aaanyway, that's the most excitement we've had since both getting a lovely case of food poisoning last weekend in the midst of the wine crawl... do NOT recommend that one! The old phrase about March comes to mind-- in like a lion, out like a lamb. I'm hoping that since health-wise we've been coming in like a lion, we'll have a blissfully relaxing end of the month!!
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