Sick and more sick..

I think from now on I am going to go out in public dressed like this guy. I swear it. I am so tired of being sick.

It is not funny.

I got a cold a few weeks back and worked through it. No problem. I figured that the least I could do was power through one cold and stay working and all that. It went pretty well. I got better within a week and was back to normal with no real bad effects..... or so I thought~!

Life got very busy for me after that. I ended up working a bit too hard for a time, and started to feel the effects of doing that. I was not sleeping well, waking up with night terrors again, and generally not feeling like myself.

Last weekend in the midst of running around trying to be all things to all people, I had lunch with my brother at a little diner near his house. It was a nice lunch, filled with jokes, laughter, and we were served the best in greasy food, sweet soda, and the latest flu that going around. I started to get a sore throat within a few days after that lunch, and so did my brother. We both got the same sickness at the same time.

I have been coughing so hard that I have pulled the muscles in my chest and throat. I can barely breathe from the pain. Laying down is a miserable experience since every time I do it, the cough gets worse and worse. Eating is just as bad. I now feel as if I have eaten shattered glass, washed it down with kerosene, and lit my throat ablaze. There is no soothing the pain either. I think I was beaten with a bigger bag of hammers than the last time I got sick! To top it all off, when I cough, I get so dizzy that I almost pass out from the pain.

Lovely....

So to everyone who is worried about me, and has been wondering why I haven't been around, this is a partial reason as to why. Stress and PTSD, rounded out with sleep deprivation and night terrors give you the general picture of what I am going through right now. I have no idea what triggered all those problems, usually there is a trigger, but in this case I think its just being over worked and over stressed for too long. I know it sounds all so terrible and there is all this reason for concern, but trust me... I have been far more sick, far more depressed, and far more messed up than this and made it through just fine.

At least I still have my sense of humor~!