Sometimes I Wish I Were a Guy

As strange as that may sound, its true. Sometimes I wish I were a guys so I wouldn’t have so many ‘woman’ issues in that sense but then I realised that being a guys comes with its own set of ‘woman’ issues. Then again, I reckon a guy wouldn’t spend as much time worrying about what to wear for work each day and especially what to wear for a work function that requires dress up.

We had the 50’s Tombola Night at work on Thursday. Being the 50’s theme, we all had to come dressed up as some sort of 50’s character. I googled stuff and I had a picture of big skirts with white socks and black shoes. Think Grease the Movie and you get the idea.

So, dress up we did. I tell you, I think I’ve perfected my winged eyeliner although mind you it smudged through the night so not much success there. I put on make up that morning but had to touch it up towards the event but had the basics on. Forgot to take pictures of that, so forget that. I did however get some pictures of the outfits there were and the event itself.

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Lazy Blogger

I admit, I’ve been thoroughly lazy lately. Ever since I fell sick, everything too a back burner and the most important thing was for me to get well again. While I was on the mend I was back at work but still taking things a bit easy as I was still coughing like crazy.

So here’s the 411 on my situation (always wanted to say that, teehee :)):
I was diagnosed with asthmatic bronchitis on 090909 by another doctor. He also said that my nose was caused by the Sudafed the other doctor prescribed. Also, he put me on 2 more course of antibiotics and added another antibiotic to my regime. He told me the other doctor shouldn’t have prescribed me with the Symbicort puffer as it contains steroid but should have put me on Ventolin instead as I was wheezing quite badly. I have residual wheezing but have stopped the inhaler as steroids scare the crap out of me. Which reminds me, the antibiotics messed up my digestive system (normal side effect) so as a result I have 2 ulcers in my mouth and my eating habits are somewhat varied.

Its been a month to the day since I got sick and I have been so out of whack that I have not gone back to my workaholic habits. It feels so strange to sit and read a book for hours at night just so I don’t have to strain myself thinking and worrying about things.

I’ve picked up the pace today: cleaned my room and sorted out some documents that had to be filed and put away, cleared my clothes as it was in a pile on the floor, done some notes for work and eaten lunch.

I’ve gotta modify my skirt for my GM at work since its a 50s themed night. Yes, my company is funky like that So I’ve bought a skirt for $9.25 at my local Good Sammy’s, some black cloth for the poodle design and a dish cloth like thing for the scarf. For obvious reasons I won’t post pictures of my outfit up just yet as the meeting is on Thursday. Wanna get the full effect of the outfit

Well I guess that’s all I have for the time being as I’m arming myself with some safety pins and needles to fix the skirt. Its a size 18 but I have to modify it to fit me (size 10/12). So I sure hope I don’t poke an eye out while doing this

What The Doctor Said

Went to the doctor again this week for the 3rd time in 2 weeks. She prescribed me an inhaler, Senega Ammonia (the vilest form of medicine known to man, but also the cheapest and most effective) and more Sudafed as I was coughing. What I didn’t know was the fact that I was also wheezing which made breathing a whole lot harder as I was coughing while I was trying to get oxygen into my lungs. As soon as I hit cold pockets of air, my coughing fits begin and I need to go to warmer areas so that I don’t wheeze.

She also told me the cough will last for about a month or so. I just needed to get all the phlegm out so that I’m not chesty anymore.

She also said, “I think you had the swine flu” -.-

Thanks for letting me know a week after I had got it. I think I could have also diagnosed myself from the symptoms I was displaying: fever, cough, runny nose, body aches and nausea. Good thing is, now I’m immune to it. Let’s just hope the virus doesn’t mutate and I’m all good

Down With The Flu

Well hello all. I’m typing now after being in bed for a week with a very bad case of the flu. Well that and hives and ear infection as well. If I didn’t tell you, you wouldn’t believe me.

It started with a very mild sore throat and cough on Saturday, which developed a bit more on Sunday. I didn’t think too much of it, since it was a very mild case and I had dosed up on echinacea and fish oil and multivitamins on Saturday and Sunday. They usually work well to curb anything that comes on. But it didn’t this time.

I woke up on Monday morning with a slight case of the chills and the cough and sore throat was a bit worse. I felt quite rotten and didn’t want to go into work but knew at 6 am, there wouldn’t be anybody awake that I could call to get them to see a client of mine at 7.15am. I sent out an e-mail and sorted out that I’d still go in for about 2 hours or so and go home after that.

Went home at about 11am and slept. And slept.

Woke up about 6pm and realised I have a bad case of hives. As in BAD case. My whole stomach area plus the back was raised with lumps. It spread so much that it just became one huge lump. So I decided to take a shower. Cold shower in an effort to try and cool down. It helps a bit, but it was itching like crazy and I just had to sleep it off and not wrap myself in a blanket, lest I over heat again.

So back to bed I went and woke up the next morning with a fever and a cold. Went to the doctor, who gave me 3 days off work and told me to take cold and flu tablets. Take them I did.

Then came Wednesday. Then came the day where I blew my nose and that was when thee whole build up of pressure in the nose happens during the cold. You know, the one where you blow your nose and then your ear feels blocked? That’s the one I had. That night came the slight fever again and the nausea. I woke up in the middle of the night and felt like I was about to puke. Nearly ran to the toilet a couple of times, but thankfully I didn’t need to puke.

Thursday was pretty much the same, though I had the nausea a few times throughout the day. By today, my butt was starting to hurt from sitting in bed nearly the whole day. I was developing bed sores out of all things as well. Gah.

So Friday came and then I trooped off to the doctor yet again as I needed another MC. Clearly I wasn’t going to go into work with my condition like that. That was when she discovered that I’ve got an ear infection on top of it. So clearly fluid my my lungs/sinus went into my ear. Don’t ask me how, I wouldn’t know the mechanics of it but yes fluid got into my ear and got infection. So she put me on antibiotics. Bloody hell, it cost $20.95 for 5 days worth of antibiotics. Talk about expensive drugs. The doctor also stopped the cold and flu tablets and asked me to take Sudafed.

Saturday and Sunday were a blur as I went out to the pharmacist to get some cough medication and went to Kongs to get Pei Pa Kao. Haha…I’ve stuck with Pei Pa Kao just cause it tasted nicer

Monday came and I still had the runny nose and cough. Same today, though the cold has started to taper off, the cough is pretty much still very present.

So I’m going to troop off to the doctor again tomorrow to ask for more antibiotics or at least something to get rid of this stupid cough. Its really draining coughing and trying to talk at the same time. Oh, and I still can’t hear properly out of my right ear. So I’m going to try and get down to that as well, cause I do intend to hear properly again. I rely too much on my hearing to have anything happen.

Anyway, I’m going to go to bed now. Have to get to work at 7.15am tomorrow and then nip back to the doctors. I’m so sick of being sick. I can’t wait to get back to full health and getting back into routine. At the moment I don’t quite have a routine as I’m either working or sleeping after that. Good night for now!