Healing

I haven't written in a long time....life got busy, and then BAM I got sick for almost 3 weeks. It was pretty bad...probably the sickest I've ever been in my life. It was really more one thing after another rather than one big thing. I got a mild allergy attack on Monday a few weeks ago that left me feeling weak and cranky for a few days. Then I got my period early. I've struggled with really, really bad cramps my whole life, and the pill took care of it for a long time, but lately they've been coming back. I changed my prescription to a new pill, but I had to wait until my next cycle to start it. So I wasn't on the pill for a month, and I got HORRIBLE cramps. Like so bad that I didn't even want to move. For those that aren't in the know about this sort of thing, advil does NOT help with this kind of pain. In my teens I was even on some pretty hardcore anti-inflammatory meds to help it and they didn't help either. Anyway, it was bad. Saturday (this was 2 weeks ago) rolled around, and I started feeling really nauseous. Sunday nausea was gone but I couldn't stop sneezing. Monday I started to have a killer sore throat, and it didn't go away, so Friday I went to the doctor. She told me I had strep and likely also a bit of a viral infection, so basically I had 2 sicknesses at once. I got put on antibiotics and was told to rest up. I thought that would be the end of it, except Saturday I decided to go out to a birthday dinner. Didn't seem strenuous, and I planned on going home early and going to bed. Just a bit of food, no alcohol, no harm right? Probably, except on the way I stopped to get a gift, and I got pretty hungry. I'd barely eaten all week (I was pretty nauseous from the strep). I got a turkey sandwich at Kamps to tide me over, since by the time I got there, decided and ordered it would probably be a couple of hours until I ate. BAD CHOICE. Turns out the "turkey" was mixed with soy (I'm going to bet that's what it was anyway) and I went into anaphylactic shock on my way there. I'd run into Dave, Mark and Darina in the train station on the way there and they saw me progress from sneezing a bit to almost passing out. I ended up getting a cab home with Darina (I can't be alone if I'm having an allergy attack...I can actually die and someone has to be there to call an ambulance if something goes wrong). Anyway it was pretty hard on my body, especially since I was recovering from the other stuff and my body had been through stress even before I got sick. I felt HORRIBLE the next day and it was a slow recovery during the past week. Usually when I get sick, my immune system kicks in pretty fast and I get healthy quickly, but I think my body was just under too much stress at once. Anyway, I'm still getting better but I'm almost 100% now....just coughing up some stuff still and slightly stuffy, but otherwise good. The only other problem is that all my muscles hurt, and not in an achy flu sort of way. I suspect it's from lying in bed and on the couch for 3 weeks. I've had this before when I didn't exercise. My body likes to move and I get sore when no movement happens. Plus neither my bed nor my couch are good for back support, and if I get bad back pain my whole body tends to get sore as well. I'm a bit too weak to do full on workouts still, but I've been easing myself back in by doing yoga. I started with 20 minutes, then 30, then an hour today and in a couple of days I'm going to try a more intense yoga workout, then maybe move onto dance and then my regular stationary bike routine. The exercise also helps my breathing and clears out my sinuses a bit, ups my appetite (which is still pretty low) and keeps my energy up in the day. Hopefully I'll be 100% back to normal by next week!

Anyway, sorry if that was long and a bit too much information!