This is ridiculous

My road to recovery has taken a totally rotten turn. I managed to get to work yesterday, and then while I'm sitting and waiting my turn to clock in, with no warning at all, woopsie! all over the place. My boss says take a point or go see a doctor. Much as I hate doctors, this has got me beat, and in order to keep my job, I went to the urgent care clinic. The doc there has me on phentergen for the sickness, a clear liquid/soft foods diet to settle my tummy, and off work for the week.

They weren't going to give me enough days off to allow me to get FMLA time, so I would have had to take points, whicih would have cost me my job. Thank goodness for those four vacation days I had left, as my boss was willing to let me use all of them to cover time off for the week. This means that I have GOT to be 100% by Monday, or I'll have to start looking for another job. I hate job hunting, so I'm trying to do a lot of sleeping to help force recovery. And on top of everything else, one of my molars has gotten a bit of an abcess, so opening my mouth much to eat really hurts. (That'll clear up quick on it's own, but still, it's more sickness to recover from.) So here I am, stuck in bed for the whole week, and on clear liquids/soft foods diet. I can have stuff like fruit juice, water, lemonade, applesauce, oatmeal, grapes, jello, chicken soup, very lightly buttered toast, and a very tiny bit of ice cream once a day. We are talking about five normal bites for most people, but right now, that is more like a huge bowlful for me as small as bites have to be so as not to upset my system again. Only problem with eating it is that it has to be allowd to melt first, so I really drink it!

So there isn't going to be darn thing getting done for days, which is not so good, and I have to hope I can recover to keep my job, which is a scary thought right now, but I'll probably lose a few pounds, which is good, lol. I'm off to find a few books while I can still sit up for this little bit, as anything other than sleeping really is draining the heck out of me. I haven't been this sick in YEARS, and it's killing me!!!! I hate sleeping this much, but I know it's good for me to help me heal up. It just bites cuz I'm so used to being up and active. *sigh* #mynewreality

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