You'll never GUESS where I've spent the last two days....

So, this whole week I just felt awful. AWFUL. On Monday, I started feeling like allergies hit me, really hard. Normally, my allergies have been accompanied by a sinus infection, so I didn't really think anything of it when I felt allergies coming on. I hadn't seen Colbi since she got sent home, so I went over to my sisters to see Colbi. I held her (probably shouldn't have) but I did.

Tuesday afternoon, at work, I just had the feeling I had a fever. Chills, then hot. It was awful. We had all three kids that night, so I went to my room, took Nyquil and went to bed. I had a fever of 102 all night, until it broke in the wee hours.

Wednesday, I was feeling better since my fever broke, but I was coughing all day like crazy. My head really hurt and my glands were swollen. But I didn't have a fever, so I still went to work. That night, I took some cough syrup and went to bed, but I felt awful. I woke up with a fever again, of 101.9, at about 4 am. I was coughing and felt nauseous. I just knew something was wrong. All day, people at work had joked that I might have West Nile (which really isn't all that ridiculous, they have found human cases in GP now). But I was just scared, so I told Jason I thought I should go to the hospital. I was going to go to the doctor that day, but something just didn't feel right.

I got to the ER and they immediately took a bunch of blood because I told them it might be West Nile. But I also told them it might just be a sinus infection. They took swaps of my nose and throat. The doctor came in, immediately ordered a CT scan. Two hours later, I was told I had strep. An hour after that, the CT showed, what the doctor and nurse told me, was one of the worst chronic sinus infections they've ever seen. They told me I should be admitted to start IV antibiotics.

So I spent about 35 hours at the hospital. I really couldn't believe it! For a sinus infection? This has just shown me, that as women, I think we just think we will plow through and not really pay attention to when we are sick. Well, I won't be making that same mistake again. Once I was admitted, and after my first two rounds of antibiotics and some breathing treatments, I felt better. I had my sister, dad and Jason come to see me, but mostly, I was just in the hospital, laying around watching TV. Relaxing. Coughing TONS, sure, a sore throat, yes, and a huge headache, but I was there alone. I didn't like it. For what I probably spent on that visit, I could have had our family at an all inclusive resort in the Bahamas!!

So here I am, at home, with this beauty.