With a Side of Hope

Good Morning!  Happy Monday!  I hope you had a great weekend!  What did you do this weekend?  My weekend was not exciting at all.  I was very sick and spent most of my weekend either laying in bed or laying on the sofa.  Not very exciting and not at all how I pictured my weekend to be.  Sometimes that happens though and it’s okay.  I’m just trying to get myself healthy and well so I can get over all of this stuff and move on!  I’ll pick up where I left off on Friday.

On Friday, I felt absolutely miserable.  My stomach was of course bothering me, my throat was on fire, and my nose was like a leaky faucet.  It got to the point where I just couldn’t sit at work anymore.  I felt like my head was in a fog and I just needed to get home.  So I ended up leaving work early.  I stuck it out as much as I possibly could.  I just couldn’t sit at my desk anymore plus I didn’t want to infect anyone else with what I have.  So I went home. 

I stopped at Panera Bread on my way home because I wanted some soup and thought maybe that would make me feel better.  I got chicken noodle soup in a bread bowl.  That was a bad idea because I was even more sick the rest of the afternoon.  I felt absolutely miserable and spent the rest of the day laying on the sofa until Mike got home from the gym.  I decided to eat my tuna fish sandwich for dinner that I had brought to work for lunch.  I’ll spare you the picture.  It wasn’t anything exciting.  After eating, I spent time with Mike for a little bit before I decided I needed to go to sleep.  I went to bed really early on Friday night.

I woke up the next morning and could barely make it out of bed.  I felt absolutely awful.  I decided to go to the doctor to see what was actually going on.  I was told that I have an upper respiratory infection and a really bad ear infection.  So I was given antibiotics and sent on my way.  The doctor also scared me a lot about Crohn’s disease and I really didn’t think that was necessary.  All of this is a lot to take in and by her saying some things to me that she did, it just made it worse.  It’s been a really rough two months that I have been going through dealing with my health.  I’m trying my absolute hardest to get myself well.  It just seems like nothing I do is working.  It’s frustrating.

I filled my prescription, and picked up a few other medications and went home and tried to get myself hydrated.  The doctor said if I got anymore dehydrated that I should run to the emergency room.  Well I was definitely not going there so I drank as much as I possibly could and went to sleep.  I ended up sleeping for a good three hours.  We were supposed to hang out with one of Mike’s friends/groomsman and his fiancée but I couldn’t leave the house.  So we cancelled on them.  I felt bad but right now my health is more important.

Mike made us turkey burgers for dinner and sweet potato fries.

Turkey Burger w/sweet potato fries (sorry for the blurry picture)

Minestrone soup

 

My pasta

 

I was extremely disappointed with how my food was!  I took a taste and it was SO spicy!  I thought that was odd because all I asked for was melted butter on it.  There was some thicker buttery type sauce over the pasta but I just couldn’t get over the spice.  It was awful!  The chicken wasn’t grilled. It tasted like a soggy pan-fried chicken.  It was awful!!!!  I was really disappointed and upset.  Not only did we waste money on it but I requested the food prepared a certain way because of my health issues.  GR!!!!  Needless to say, my stomach was not at all happy with me last night or this morning.  I am definitely planning on contacting the Olive Garden about this. 

 

The rest of the night, we spent watching the Oscars.  I was so incredibly bored watching it.  It was pretty disappointing this year.  I liked the opening number that Billy Crystal did but that was about it.  We made it to about 10:15pm and then shut the tv off.  We were both falling asleep.

 

Now, here we are another week.  I probably shouldn’t have come into work today because I am still not feeling well at all but I knew I had a lot of work to take care of.  I’m just hoping this day flies by and that I start feeling better very soon.  I’m thinking about getting a second opinion for my Crohn’s Disease because I’m starting to believe that this doctor doesn’t know what she is doing.

 

Alright, have a great Monday!

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