welcome to my mind ...

I've reached the point in my sickness that I can blow my nose and breathe clearly through both sides of my nose for all of about 30 seconds before one side decides it's not ready to enjoy airflow yet. Damnit. At least there's that much of an improvement. My nose and the part of my face around my nose is still ridiculously raw from blowing it so much. Whenever I walk around, I'm simply waiting for the Rudolph the Red Nose reindeer comments to commence. My sense of smell has also yet to return, so that's fantastic. {<~~ sarcasm ... if you couldn't catch that.}

This ailment has caused me to miss more work than I ever have when I've been sick. I'm usually really good about toughing through it. Hell, the week before my vacation, I worked both jobs 4 days a week all through having a cold. I don't think I missed a single day during that time. It sucked ass, yes, but I still didn't feel shitty enough to miss work. It's stupid how much this cold has knocked me on my ass. I missed work Saturday, Sunday, and today. Only reason I didn't miss yesterday is because I didn't wake up early enough to call off without risking getting written up. I should have taken the write up. My boss is the one who told me to call off for today, which I did at noon yesterday. There was already someone to cover the shift so it wasn't too much of a big deal.

I went out to the store last night, after coming home and zonking out with the help of more Tylenol, and purchased some soup, mac'n'cheese, Spaghettios and some juices with a bunch of vitamins in them. I'm currently drinking Bolthouse Farms Multi-V Goodness which has so much stuff in it. It's got 100% of 12 daily vitamins per serving {so I'm getting double the amount since I'm drinking the whole bottle} along with 32% of your daily fiber. I also have a Naked drink packed with like 2000% vitamin C that I'll be drinking a little later. I'm still taking Mucinex during the day and the Tylenol at night so hopefully by the weekend I'll be better.

I completely forgot about the Oil of Oregano trick until yesterday, but that's something you can only find at Whole Foods and I really didn't feel like driving downtown. Perhaps once I'm feeling better and I find myself near a Whole Foods store again, I'll grab a bottle.

I have to go to work tonight because I'm pretty sure if I call off sick from there again, I'll lose my job. I've already done so 4 times since I've started working there and being a part-timer, it doesn't really reflect well. Then as soon as I get home tonight I'll be taking the Tylenol and crashing out because I need to work both jobs tomorrow. It kind of makes me sad because I'll miss seeing my favorite face on Skype, but I really need to not stay up late tonight. It can be made up for Thursday night, since tomorrow night I'll be coming home and crashing again.

Only 4 shifts to get through, two part time, two full time. I can handle that right? I also hope that I'm better by the weekend since I'm supposed to be hanging out with people again on Friday. Fingers crossed.