Saturday Night Fever

Well then.

Anybody normal catches a cold. I wish I was normal.

The sensation of feeling your body temp go from the normal 98.3 to 103.7 in the matter of an hour just rocks.

Yep. Any body familiar with the effects 50mg of Diphenhydramine HCI and Guaifenesin w/codeine cough syrup has on a person?

Scary. And I still wasn't sleeping.

3am Saturday morning dictated a temp check at 104. Which then necessitated a luke warm shower and more aspirin to negate my fever. Worked kinda.

I love passing out on the bathroom floor only to be awakened by my youngest tapping on my forehead and repeating in song "Mawmee I have to make big pee pee now, can you get up?"

Bed rest is redundant since when you're that sick, you're not really resting... Your body still fights it's infection and you end up bearing witness to it's labor since there's no distractions.

I was surprised to learn that I get CBC in my bedroom, which meant I could watch the game 5 series of the NHL Stanley cup finals. I wasn't too impressed with the action in the Edmonton/Detroit game, but the Ottawa/Tampa Bay game was pretty good. Any body else loving Havlat's accent? He speaks so softly too... damn you.

I admit I was a little delirious from the fever, but every time I drifted into sleep while watching the above games I had a dream I was the team nurse, patiently waiting for blood on the ice so I could tend to the sweaty bloody men.... In the privacy of the locker room. *ahem*

And can I just say... I love you Canadians... I really do. SO many reasons.

Saturday night my fever had dropped to a decent and almost comfortable 102.8, but then jumped again to 103.7 at 2am when I woke up to a migraine and vomiting. GO ME!

I got tired of answering the almighty "Does your back hurt?" question and finally just wrote yes on my forehead with one of my sons bath crayons... Wish I could get that shit off now.

I got in trouble for taking Tylenol for my fever... Im not supposed to be taking anything with Acetaminophen since it counteracts my adrenal therapy... whoopsie! But really, what's worse? Brain damage from fever or another dose of dialysis... Hmmm, rough choice.

Today my temp is down to 102.2 (hooray!), but my weight is also down to 102.2 and well, I think instead of going to my birthday party today... I will stay and nurse my heat rash and inability to reason so I can work tomorrow.

Somebody hold me.