February 28th, 2008
Feeling just about as craptacular as I have been since Saturday. I’ve got the sniffles - not as bad as it was, meaning I’m not so congested that I wouldn’t feel snot running down my face like before.
Oh come on, as if you’ve never had the same thing.
Went to work today, about an hour and a half late. I thought I may get a hard time from one of the guys who I normally banter back and forth with about what time we arrive in the office. He took one look at me and said, “Oh, shit.”
Thanks. Here I thought I was doing about a thousand times better.
Sat through a meeting, coughing (and peeing - yup, peeing again), and chewing down Halls like a hardcore crack addict goes to the rock only to be sent home once it was complete.
Ah! *coughcoughcoughHACK!coughcoughcough*
[Cough is a funny looking word. So is porridge. They sound funny too.]
I’ve tried just about everything I can to alleviate this sinus pressure and hacking cough - humidifier, showers, Halls, hot teas, soups, water, shoving tissues up my nose, crying, praying, begging - aside from Voodoo.
I am just about at my wits end and will probably end up googling Voodoo magic to see what I can muster up; even if it may just be a Voodoo doll to wreak havoc on some drug companies, who I love so much, for making a severely hormonal and pregnant lady suffer to this extent. Motherfuckers I tell you. All of them. Sitting in their ivory fuckin’ towers laughing at us preggos suffering. All men too I bet. Stupid fuckers. Fuck!
[They get me every time. I just get so mad thinking about it. I mean, we now have private fuckin' air travel to fuckin' outer space but no drugs for pregnant women. Bull shit. Absolutely bull shit.]
Ahem.
At this point, I turn to you Dear Internets. I need your assvice advice on what home remedies I can try to help get rid of this cold ASAP.
While you’re thinking about what to tranquilize me with offer me for home remedies, I’m going to sit my ass on the couch and watch last night’s Big Brother 9.
[Speaking of Big Brother. I was a bawling sappy mess when they showed Amanda's seizure on Wednesday's Tuesday's (what the fuck day is it anyway?) show. I can't link the video because it's just too hard to watch - and hear - again. If you're interested though, it's all over YouTube. ]
Call your OB to double-check…mine told me there actually was stuff I could take…I was surprised.
Other than that, try non-medicine stuff….vaporub, an actual vaporizer (or steam from the shower), hot tea, & plain tylenol will help some. I found a heat pad on my upper back/neck (but not down near the baby!) helped a lot, too.
Lexi’s last blog post..PS…
February 28th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
I admit, I told Alexis that Amanda was totally faking it right up until she went into her seizure (Amanda’s….Alexis was fine;) )
Chris’s last blog post..Poor Marketing Campaigns
February 28th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
I agree…check with your OB. I took Theraflu among other various OTC drugs. Just check with your OB. It’s not as rejamented as it used to be. I also am a big fan of Vicks vapor rub. That stuff is awesome.
And I know you probably don’t want to hear this: but sex actually DOES clear up the sinuses.
Never saw Big Brother (any of them) but that sounds scary.
Brenda’s last blog post..What have you been up to?
No sex here. I can barely even roll over let alone get it on. LOL
February 29th, 2008 at 9:32 am