3 posts tagged “sinuses”

I have a miserable sinus cold thing going on and I can not sleep because of it so I am trying to catch up on some of my neighbors and also try to update my blog.

Today is my Dad's birthday. We are supposed to be going out to lunch as his birthday celebration. I am not sure if we will be going bowling this year, because he has invited some friends along for his lunch. Normally we go bowling on his birthday and on father's day because this is his hobby.

I am not sure if I am going to be able to make it to lunch though because of this cold. I was looking forward to it too, Dad picked a different restaurant to go to instead of his usual favorite. It is the same style of food just a different chain.

Right now the way I feel I would not go. I have a clogged up head, a sore throat, and no voice. My family would not care so much about the lack of voice, they would even have fun at my expense, I am used to it because every time I get a sinus cold I end up with laryngitis. The sore throat would worry my family and they would prefer I stay home and rest. So I will see how it goes.

This week has been pretty dull for me because I am not working right now. We, my roommate and I, had our little mini movie marathon on New Year's Eve. We long ago decided to forgo the crazy partying that usually goes on, especially the drunk drivers after the parties. Instead we get some movies and watch them through the night with snacks and have a relaxing time. This year we had a little extra entertainment with our movies because the DVD player kept acting up. Fortunately we were not watching movies that we had never seen so we just laughed at the frustration of fighting with the DVD player.

Last weekend we went to see Jeff Dunham perform live. It was a Sunday night performance but it did not run too late. We made sure to go out to eat before the show so that we were not tempted to buy any snacks at the show. I also made sure not to have anything to drink so that I would not end up choking on it while laughing. I enjoyed the fact that he made sure to change his routine a bit to fit the area he was playing. He use the names of local communities and counties instead of just being vague.

Christmas was good. Lots of fun visiting with the family, great food made by mom, lots of gifts.

I managed to read my two new books already. I got R.G. Ryan's book 'Snapshots at St. Arbucks' and Patricia Volonakis Davis's book 'Harlot's Sauce'. I enjoyed them both.

We had our power go out twice in the last few weeks, once was before Christmas if I remember correctly and once the Saturday after Christmas. The first time was due to something at our transformer out on the pole so it was only us out of power it lasted just a couple hours until they were able to get a truck out here to fix it. That Saturday one was because of the weather and the whole area was out of power for 6 hours, fortunately it was not freezing cold that day.

We also almost ran out of propane this past weekend. I had checked the tank gauge a couple weeks before but it must have been slightly froze because it said that we had about 40%. Sunday before we left for the show I smelled the odor they put in propane, which indicates a leak of that the tank it low so I checked the gauge and it said that we had only 5%. When we got back from the show I made sure to turn the furnace down way low and the water heater too in order to conserve what propane we had left. I was again lucky that it was not one of the freezing days we have been getting. The propane driver was able to get here late Monday afternoon and filled the tank back up to 80%. That should last us quite a while unless when winter finally settles in, it is bitterly cold.

Today I got to talk to an old friend that I do not get to talk to very often. It was nice to talk to him. I like to hear what he has been doing because it makes me feel more connected even though we are several states apart. He had more new things to talk about than I did. I basically said that things are going pretty much the same for me - I am still working - I have another sinus allergy cold thing going on (I get them at least 3 times a year) - I still live the same place - I still have the same friends - I still am single - etc. etc. etc.

As you may have guessed, after talking to him I felt kind of lame because I did not have anything exciting to talk about, like his first solo fight in a helicopter (he has been taking lessons). He has a girlfriend right now and I am single ( that one bothers me in more ways than one but that is for another post someday, or not).

So I was kind of feeling a little blue as I was driving home (his phone call had caught me waiting at Walgreen's for a prescription to be filled). I started thinking about all the things I have not done in the past and started feeling like the future is going to full of missed opportunities too. The more I thought about that the more I got angry with my self. I was already writing off the future as if it was the past, when all I can really do is live in the present. I can have plans and dreams but I also need to live one day at a time, not skip over them as if they are not valuable. Each day is valuable simply for the fact that they are one more day I got to live, there are plenty of people that don't get to live as long as I have (not to say that I am old, but that is the point, I am not old and yet compared to some people my life is long)

So I think I have sufficiently scolded myself for the night and I am going to take some of my new meds for my redundant sinus/head cold thing, and get to bed so that I can hopefully wake up to another day of living.

Well my temperature is hovering between 99 and 100 so that is good, but I am not sure about going to work in the morning. (the last time I called in the boss told me to just go ahead and go back to days when I return).

The job is still just as cold, I still feel miserable, my sinuses are going crazy on me. I have tried flushing my ears with peroxide water to help clear some of the pressure out of them (sometimes this works but sometimes it does not do anything but make me dizzy). I do not want to loose my job, but I know they know people are getting sick on the job. I am not the only one that is going around sick. I just do not know if I am the only one that has stayed home this long with such a high fever.

If I take enough Robitussin to clear my head it makes me a space cadet. I have to keep taking the Tylenol to keep my fever from going back up (well I am doing that just to hedge my bets)

So I sit here and hesitate.