Sitting here sick, feeling like I did in highschool when I would get bronchial infections every 2-3 months during my Grade 12 and OAC year. Those were brought on due to the fact that I was run off my feet, doing 100 things at once. What brought back the chain-smoking seal cough this time, I don't know. I suspect my immune system isn't all that great from all the travel in the last year. Every time I fly, I come away with a sinus infection. This is more than a sinus infection - it's deep in my chest/throat and keeping me up at night. Thankfully, my downstairs neighbours have their bedroom at the front of the building and mine is at the back, so they are spared the constant, hacking coughs that are keeping me up at night.
Been like this for the last couple of days, but this is the first day that I have actually been awake during the afternoon. I've been spending most of the last 3 days in a Neo Citrin coma during the afternoons, asleep with the dog on the bed, attempting to recover some strength. I actually walked to Bridgehead this morning for coffee with Rebel, which is further than I've walked in the last 4 days.
I taught on Thursday morning, which was the beginning of the end. Luckily it wasn't a full lecture, only a lab, so I was spared too much torture. But Thursday night was also Rockin4Tabitha and that was the worst possible thing for me - an evening of talking and socializing completely destroyed whatever immunity I had left and Friday I was a mess. I actually left R4T early, which I never do, but I had no choice - the thought of socializing and talking more was killing me. Being sick and miserable while trying to put on a happy face and be nice wasn't working.
Now the question is whether I'll make it to work tomorrow. Thankfully I have my work computer here, and I have a day's worth of data crunching to do, so I really should just stay home. A barking seal is not welcome in a cubicle environment.
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