Remember last week when I was sick?
Yeah. I’m still sick.
I thought I was getting better last Friday and then I came down with a raging sore throat on Saturday afternoon. It was the kind of sore throat that makes you want to pull your head off your body just so you can feel better. And also eat lots of ice cream.
By Sunday morning, I was a mere fraction of my normal self. As much as I loved Nashville, apparently it didn’t love me back. Unless it shows its love by making a person so ill that you come face to face with your own mortality.
I vowed that I would go see the doctor on Monday morning, but then I got really caught up with all the laying in my bed and doing nothing after I got Caroline off to school. It seemed like a lot of trouble just to be told, “You are allergic to ragweed. Go buy some Zyrtec.”
So I didn’t go to the doctor. I also didn’t go to the grocery store because, clearly, I was on the verge of death and couldn’t be expected to grocery shop in spite of our dire toilet paper shortage.
However, Tuesday found me facing the cruel reality of a field trip to the zoo with Caroline’s Kindergarten class. I don’t mean to be controversial, but I’m not really a fan of the zoo on even the best days. A large majority of the zoo property stinks, not to mention that the monkeys’ feet gross me out. It’s like seeing your old great uncle without his socks on.
Or maybe that’s just my family.
Anyway, I had promised Caroline that I would go to the zoo and I didn’t want to disappoint her in spite of my impending hospitalization for pneumonia and the fact that I couldn’t really talk above a whisper. So off we went to the zoo at 9:00 Tuesday morning on the big yellow school bus.
I’ll be honest. The school bus was really the highlight of the trip. In fact, when the school bus started off, all the Kindergartners screamed like they were on a roller coaster. I screamed too, but mainly because the bus brought back some painful memories from my freshman year in high school when a boy may or may not have convinced me to put a little bit of Skoal in my mouth while riding in the back of the bus.
It wasn’t one of my finer moments.
We actually had a great time at the zoo, but by the time it was over I knew it had pushed me that much closer to needing a lung transplant.
So yesterday morning, I finally headed to the doctor for an official diagnosis and good drugs.
When I arrived I had to fill out a form explaining why I was there, so I wrote “Husband says I can’t keep complaining about being sick if I won’t go to the doctor. Also, want heavy-duty cough medicine that will knock me flat out.”
I scored all the way around because I was diagnosed with a sinus infection and borderline bronchitis plus an ear infection. That’s the kind of diagnosis that will allow me to complain for days.
I also got a prescription for heavy-duty cough medicine that will make me forget I have a cough and a name. I’m going to save a little bit to take on election day or maybe just for the next debate.
But the best of all was that yesterday was Crazy Hair Day in Caroline’s class and I sent her to school looking like this.
And who can feel bad looking at that?
It’s the best medicine of all.
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The monkey’s feet comment made me chuckle, especially when you mentioned that they compared to your great uncle. You still have your great sense of humor, even sick!
I’m up drinking Theraflu before part 2 (I hope!) of sleeping here in CO. Apparently the toddy did nothing for this stuff. Maybe I should go to the doctor for some of your kind of cough meds.
Praying you feel better really soon!
Cracking up! Good Post! Love the crazy hair!
Only YOU would know how to bust out some dredlocks. Hilarious!
Ok, that post was hilarious. I absolutely love the sarcasm, and especially the comment about the monkeys’ feet.
It could always be worse. I’m sick, too, and I didn’t even get to go to Nashville first.
Hope you feel better soon.
Maybe you sent her to school looking like that because of the great cough medicine!!!!
nashville LOVES you… you just came during the height of allergy season and middle tennessee is the WORST!
I hate the zoo. We have a tradition – every time I have a baby, my husband takes the other kids to the zoo. It’s win-win – I stay home and nap in the quiet house with the newborn, and the kids get their zoo fix.
And no, I don’t know what I am going to do now that I seem to be getting too old to reproduce anymore…
This picture cracks me up!! Caroline looks as though she is saying, “Bring it, yo!”
Sorry about your illness. Hope that you begin feeling better soon!
Feel better soon….and great job on C’s hair!
Something that makes you forget you have a cough OR a name? Maybe I should go to the doctor too!
Seriously, I’ve been fighting off a sinus infection for 4-5 days. And now my youngest is home with a fever and a big headache. Sigh.
Get well soon BM….maybe you should make your hair pink too…no one feels like death when they have pink hair!
Kelly S.
Well, I’m sorry you’ve been feeling bad but I think you did the right thing by waiting until you were almost at death’s door. It has gotten to the point that if you don’t wait that long to go to the doctor, they won’t give you a darn thing to help you get well. It is so sad you might not be sick enough.
I hope the meds are working and that you are on the mend soon.
I love Caroline’s hair for crazy hair day. I guess it does double duty for crazy hair day and breast cancer awareness in. Pink is the new black for this month. LOL
I had the sore throat plague a few weeks ago. I had a 3-4 day vacation from it. I thought it was a vacation, but it was just festering and multiplying. It came back as a sinus infection. The Doc? He said, “Oh yeah, I’ve seen worse.” “Doctor, it will be worse by tonight or tomorrow morning.” (Add that my daughter was thoughtfully begging in the background, “Are you going to give my mommy medicine to make her feel better?”) He did. You know, I’m still not myself. Ugh. Oh, and the decongestant? I wasn’t sleeping while I took it.
Good times. Good times.
I just want to know who taught her the hand sign….that’s awesome.
Somehow even when you’re on your death bed – you can still manage to crack me up! The comments about the zoo and monkey feet made me almost spit out my coffee!
I hope you feel better soon!
Great crazy hair!!! You are a great mom!
You are one cool mom! Great hair.
Hope you feel better soon.
Ohhh…I love the pink hair! ;o)
My kid has that same pose! Wow.
I hope you feel better soon – seriously though, it could be the ragweed. It’s had me miserable for weeks, IF I’m not on my zyrtec. :>)
On an entirely unrelated note – I have to share that my husband, too, leaves 1/2 a paper towel on the counter. I understand WHY he does it…he doesn’t need the entire paper towel…and since I can’t find the pick-a-size towels anymore (WTH?) he makes his own. It drives me crazy, but I usually end up using it to wipe up the crumbs he’s left behind! (smile)
Have a great day!
First, sorry about the illness. Keep it there. Leave my sinus cavity alone.
Most important, I gotta know who it was that convinced you to try skoal!!!!!! I’m trying to remember who would have been on the bus with you to go to Little Brook!!!!! That’s where you were headed right? We didn’t meet until Soph year, so I missed some good info!
Oh my Melanie…I’m so glad that you went to the Dr. I’m having some serious sympathy for ya…seriously…that STINKS.
Once I tried some skoal with a boy in a car and threw up out the window going down the road. That was the end of that.
Hang in there.
Love,
Fran
Mel,
I am so sorry Nashville made you sick. I feel responsible and all because I live here…not what Chamber of Commerce wants to here…lol If it’s any consolation it has made me sick. We finally got rain and now my throat hurts and I may have a stomach virus. We are sounding like a country song in the making. LOL
I hope you feel better and I am off to clean the house.
Love Ya,
Patty
Could you please ship some of that cough medicine here? I need to be knocked out for election day too! I love crazy hair day! Hope you feel better soon!
Oh my, you’re funny, lady! I clicked over to you from…wait, let me think about how this happened…okay, from Shaun Groves’ blog, which I clicked to from Rocks in my Dryer, which I clicked to from Are We Still Cool. Whew! Anyway – glad I found you – you’re funny stuff!
(And I really hope the drugs do the trick soon!)
and if anyone tells her she’s bossy, she’ll just say “my hair is crazier than yours.”
I hope you feel better soon!!
Caroline looked adorable! My daughter wants to do that now. What did you use to color her hair?
Sorry you’re sick, but this just made me laugh out loud! I’m glad you explained the crazy hair. I glanced at the picture and thought “what kind of Halloween costume is that”?
Sorry you’re sick, but this just made me laugh out loud! I’m glad you explained the crazy hair. I glanced at the picture and thought “what kind of Halloween costume is that”?
Could I have some of that cough med for election day or I may need Caroline’s hair. Feel better soon!
That little (neon) red-haired girl knocks me flat out!
May the force (not just Caroline, but the GREATER force) be with you.
GIRL…..you are sick. Just a sinus infection deems you a few days of whining. You better get some rest and let the world go by without you for a few days. Yeah right, you have a 5 year old. GET WELL. You have a trip coming up. It would not be good to get sick far away from home. You might have to really eat a monkey foot in the medicine brew.
Your description of monkey feet cracks me up. LOL
Hope you get over this nasty stuff soon.
Well, I think I’m heading down your road of sickness, so maybe I’ll do that to my daughter’s hair and see if it makes me feel better
The monkey’s feet comment cracked me up! =)
Love your daughter’s hair!
I hope you get well very soon! That is a miserable feeling! Get some rest.
Be truthful now: Did you give Caroline some of your cold medicine?
I left you an award. Go check it out. Hope you’re feeling better soon!
I’m so sorry that you’re sick, but can I just say that you can make me laugh even when you’re deathly ill.
When I’m having a bad day – I always know which blog to visit first to put a smile on my face!
I haven’t commented here in a long time, but I wanted to say I hope you feel better soon (my husband gets lots of sinus infections and I know how miserable they make him feel.)
I love how even when you are sick, you still have a wonderful sense of humor!!
Your daughter is precious!!
Feel better real soon!!!
Hope you’re feeling better soon and very soon!
I love your site. I love the pink hair!
I just got home from a field trip myself today. The big yellow bus through the mountains of north Georgia will make you want to hurl pretty much anything you’ve eaten in the last 48 hours. Wish I had some of that supersonic cough medicine to lighten up the headache I now have.
(The precious second graders made it worth it though, and seeing my dtr fall asleep on my shoulder beside me on the way back to school. Totally worth the headache I now have.)
I’m gonna go look for some expired medicine from the kidney stone I had 4 years ago…
Wish me luck.
I’m so sorry you are not feeling well…and praying for a speedy recovery. Love the picture…great medicine!
No no no… it’s just allergies! (The Girl can’t give up the coughing ghost either and I don’t want to take her in until I’m on the new insurance. I’m really praying that it’s just allergies, but I have a feeling it’s a nice yucky cold now.)
Get better and complain for all it’s worth! (Tell P that the doc ordered that you not cook for at least 2, no 3, days!
Girl, you ARE sick! I hope you get to feeling better quick.
Definitely good medicine!
I had something close to your official diagnosis a couple of weeks ago. My Mom would call it “the epizudy”. Yea, that sounds just like the way I felt! Laryngitis was involved.
If you have some of that heavy duty cough medicine left over, I wouldn’t mind a swig myself on election night!
HEy- I have to fill out some forms for the new transplant clinic evaluations. If you available, and not dead, I could surely use some good one liners to get me approved that much faster.
I’m just sayin’.
(Feel better, friend. And tell P you have my permission to gripe all you want. For Pete’s sake. Go hunt or something. It’s deer season!)
I feel much better after seeing that picture!! How cute can she possibly be?
We have crazy hair day here tomorrow. They can wear wigs, weaves, extensions, but the hair must be “of a natural color.” …huh? WHA?!?! Just suck 98% of the fun right out of it, why don’t they?!
I keep wondering if my 6 year old’s Ariel wig from last Halloween counts as a natural color. Personally, I have never seen flourescent red in nature. But then again I have seen some flaming red hair.
Good girl – glad you made it to the doctor. Now you can start your road to recovery.
Caroline’s hair is so great. What a hoot!!
I hope you got you some zpac too.
hope you feel better soon. i hate sinus infections. they love me tho.
I am sure that Caroline and her classmates learned many essential educational properties on Crazy Hair Day. Or not. (But it sure does look like fun!)
Get well soon. Your public misses you!
I feel for you, as I have the same junk right now! it sucks. benadryl is sooooooo my friend right now (along with my high-powered cough syrup
hope u feel better soon. caroline look super cute ~ reminds me of pippi longstocking (remember her?)
get better !!
I HAVE IT TOO! It is so great to laugh about it because I have only wanted to pull my head off to make my throat stop hurting.
This post really cracked me up because it is exactly what I have been going through.
My husband just watches TV while I moan with a fever beside him. I finally said…
“would you please just stare at me and touch my forehead???” He did it for about 2 seconds and then back to TV.
Oh well. Thanks for the laugh.
I HOPE that is spray-on color?!
Yeah, been fighting a cold/sinus fumunga for 2 weeks. Finally got better then Bubbalu started sniffling again today…Fall is here!
I hope you feel better soon. Send the name of the drug so I can just get some for whatever life may throw at me this coming winter here in WI!! Ha!
Not to offed, cause I think both are adorable, but your girl looks like Stephanie from Lazytown! How fun!
You simply make me laugh OUT LOUD!!!
Love it…and hope you feel better!
FWIW, I’m not a big fan of the Zoo either!!!
Hilarious! Caroline truly looks like a cartoon character or something off the disney channel! What a great Mom to go all the way with pink hair
Soooo…when is Caroline taking over Fashion Friday?
That was great! I hope you are feeling better. I tried to leave a comment on your “Ring the Bells” post, but it would not let me. Do you know if there is something wrong with it?
I apologize for my last post. I had not gotten to the second Ring the Bells post. Thanks!
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