Triple Whammy

About two weeks ago I started feeling a cold coming on. Of course I did nothing to prevent it. I didn't take any Emergen-C, or Airborne, or extra vitamins... nothing. Boy, I have learned my lesson. Two Fridays ago I was working and that is when I started lightly coughing and my throat hurt a little. I had Saturday and Sunday off so I took it really easy. I did absolutley nothing. I sat in my recliner, watched tv, drank lots of fluids, and took lots of NyQuil and Tylenol Cold. But the cold kept coming on strong. I was coughing, sneezing (green mucus), had a migrane, a fever, and to top it all of two days in a row I had a painful sensation in each of my ears (left ear on Saturday, right ear on Sunday). It was horrible. I called sick on Monday hoping that it would go away, but no luck. There was no way that I could call in sick two days in a row because here at Embassy you have to have a doctors note. I was putting the doctors off at long as possible, because I do have insurance... but the Urgent Care doesn't take HMO which means the visit would have been between $90 and $120, which I don't really want to pay for right now... There are more bills and rent that are a little more important. So frustrating... Anyways, I went to work on Tuesday and Wednesday and I was miserable. Spent the entire time coughing up a lung feeling like I was going to die. Thursday morning I woke up and took Ryan to work, when I got back home I felt a little nauseaous. And the next thing I know I was over the toilet, puking my brains out. Actually it was all stomach acid but it felt like it was my brains. Side note - when I throw up I normally have so much pressure and force that I break a lot of capillaries in my face. I end up looking like I have a rash all above my eyes. I HATE throwing up, I could never be bulemic... hahahaa. Anyways, after spending two hours over the toilet, I call Ryan and tell him to come home and take me to Urgent Care, asap.

Once I get there it takes me 20 minutes to see a doctor (RECORD TIMING I KNOW!!!!) and he diagnoses me with a) Flu b) Ear Infection AND c) Bronchitus. Wow. Thank god I went, I just thought I had the flu. He sends me home with a perscription for some amoxicillian, and two days later I feel perfect. All in all I spent $90 on the visit and $8 on the antibiotics (thanks to good ole AAA). Alas I am all better, still coughing lightly, getting out all of the rest of the mucus. But boy did I learn my lesson... Take your vitamins and your airborne... It's truly better in the long run.