Sick days

This time, for me.  I'm not sure what happened, but the first day off of work I was sick, and it never really let up until now.  That Friday I didn't get out of bed until noon, and was back in bed by 5.  The next day, I moved to the sofa in the spare bedroom and watched a bunch of old Cary Grant movies.  It would've been heavenly had I not been so ridiculously nauseous.

Izzy spent most of the day in there with me as well, watching movies.  It was nice and snuggly, for the most part.  Joacim was kind enough to take her out of the house for awhile and visit Shelby Street Diner (without me, sadly).

 I even got a little snuggle in with Rosie.

But the beautiful thing about all of this resting was NO SWELLING.  And for anyone that's reading my other blog, you'll know how truly awesome this is to me.  :)

I experienced it all, but today, for the first time, I'm feeling human again.  I can eat, breathe, and I'm not required to sit down every 5 minutes.  That's progress, I'd say.

ANOTHER sick day and some puppy playtime

Sick again today.  The sneezing won't stop.  And when I'm not sneezing, I feel like I need to, with that annoying little tingle in one side of my nose.  FREAKIN' DRIVING ME INSANE!! 

I went to the doctor today...confirmed sinus infection.  My teeth hurt.  My sinus cavity actually pulses when I lay down.  I AM MISERABLE.

I made some soup when I got home, and then decided to take the dogs out for a little playtime.  I needed to feed the birds, the dogs were going crazy inside, and I thought that the cold air might help me out.  Following are some photos I took of the dogs, plus a couple of videos.

Sorry to make you tilt your head on this one...looks like my phone got confused :)

And then we had to come inside because I had a conference call in the afternoon.  I swear these dogs just LOOK guilty sometimes....

SNOW (and sick) DAY!!

I stayed home from work today.  Yes, I'm sick.  And it's all my fault, because I was commenting to Joacim on Tuesday night that I couldn't BELIEVE that I didn't sick from Izzy (since I catch EVERYTHING right now while on these meds).  I swear...as soon as I opened my mouth to utter those fateful words, a virus flew right in with a vengance.  I slept till 11, and only woke up because my tummy was growling :)  I.  WAS.  A.  SICK.  MESS.  And I'm so glad Izzy went to daycare so I could rest.

Conveniently enough, there was a winter storm today too.  I think we got around 5-6 inches of snow.  Joacim had his work cut out for him...shoveling this mess.

Here are the dogs waiting patiently for the chance to go outside

And here's Izzy, copying me taking pictures of her and the dogs.  I'll make a photographer out of her yet ;)

When he got back inside, Izzy begged to go out and ride on her sled.  And she's a VERY good beggar :)  You an tell that he's clearly THRILLED to be out here :)  I kid!  I kid!  He LOVES taking her out and playing in the snow!

He started running around the yard, pulling her behind.  There was this little hill of snow, and I think she got some air on it!

 I wish you could see her face.  It's weird how much she mimic's her Pappa sometimes!

She wanted to go for a walk around the house, but the snow was so thick that she kept falling.  And this might seem like not such a big deal, but last year, she would FREAK out if her hands (or anything attached to her, for that matter) touched the snow :)  So this is awesome.

 Sometimes they're like 2 peas in a pod

 I think seeing that smile makes the cold worth it

 And here are the dogs again, still waiting patiently for THEIR turn :)

 And before she could even take her hat and coat off, she picked up her harmonica and started playing.  She seems to be quite attached to this thing lately, which is cute and annoying all at the same time.

 And then it was on to my iPhone

 Joacim gave her a bath to warm her up

 And Lemmy hung out in the strangest of locations and positions

This was a very good day, but I can't breathe anymore, so I'm off to bed.

LOTS of sick days this week

Izzy has been sick most of the week...a fever that kept coming back (no fever today, so hopefully it's finally gone) a hacking cough, and a nose so runny that it's now bleeding.  Poor.  Little.  Thing.  One of us was home with her from Tuesday through Friday.  I didn't get much done at work this week because even when I was there, I knew I should've been home with her.  Ahhhh....the perils of being a working parent.  What WAS nice was getting to spend so much time with her, even though a sick Izzy isn't quite as entertaining as a healthy Izzy.

She wasn't too bad early on Tuesday, yet.  I had to keep her home, though, because of her fever.  Check out the multi-tasking on this one...chattin' on her phone while watching Dora.   

But by Wednesday, she was fully sick and pathetic.

I think this video says it all, don't you?

She wasn't being dramatic.  She REALLY felt this bad.

Thursday I went back to work, which was awful for me.  It was nearly impossible to concentrate, and at 4:15pm I got a call from Joacim with a crying Izzy in the background.  She had been crying for me for a 1/2 hour.  I felt awful so I packed up immediately and headed home.  Joacim had soccer playoffs that evening, so it was just us girls.  We finished making Pernil, which is a Puerto Rican  pork, and then we started making some homemade chai concentrate.  Anyone that knows me knows that I have a severe slight addiction to chai.  I can't tell you how much money I've donated to Starbucks, but it's an embarrassing number, I'm sure.  so when I saw this recipe on The Pioneer Woman's Tasty Kitchen website, I HAD to try it. And luckily she was feeling good enough to be my little helper for a bit.

This video I feel a teeny tiny bit guilty about...probably not good that she's eating pure sugar, but she'd had such a rough week....

And here is the end result.  And it is DELICIOUS.  And I'll be making it regularly.  Sorry Starbucks :(

I did get a few smiles out of her

Izzy's fever spiked up again after all of this activity, so I drove into work Thursday night to get my computer because Joacim had a meeting that he couldn't miss.  It was 10:00pm when I left..I didn't get to work until 11:00pm.  A semi had apparently exploded in flames on the interstate.  Perfect.  I slept in a little on Friday morning with her, but had to get up for a web meeting.  While I was on the phone/computer, Izzy sat in the office with me and played with her play-doh.

At one point ALL of the animals were in the office, but 5 living creatures makes it pretty cramped (and I was pretty sure that Rosie would eat some play-doh at some point) so I gated the dogs out. But a gate doesn't hold Lemmy back, and luckily he found a quiet place to rest.

It's been a long week, and I'll be glad to get back to some routine, but at the same time, I'm gonna miss her like crazy.

A few more songs from today...

Izzy and Joacim had a rough start to the day....she threw up all over him. Yeah, glad I wasn't on the receiving end of THAT one. After I went to work to get my safety shoes (ugh) I came home and stayed with her.

I was doing a lot of photo editing today. I had a TON of photos from the weekend to process and I actually got it all done. Maybe because Izzy was on the floor doing this:

 And after she woke up from her nap, she blessed me with these songs...

This one is called "You play drums"

And here we have another rousing rendition of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"

I think I'm a little tired of this....

The primary medications I take for my kidney disease are predniosone and cyclosporine, both of which are immunosuppresants. Essentially, they are used to try to suppress whatever is "attacking" my kidney's glomeruli. Unfortunately, it doesn't just work on the kidneys but rather the entire body. And it seems that I catch every single bug/virus that I come into contact with. Having Izzy in a daycare certainly doesn't help me at all.
I could feel this sickness coming on yesterday morning. I woke up a bit stuffy with a sore throat, but this morning I felt downright AWFUL. All I wanted to do was lay in bed, but I had to get up and get Izzy to daycare. I know that I am in no condition to take care of her right now. After I dropped her off I ran over to the drugstore to pick up yet another prescription and some stuff to help me feel better. I'd read a ton of stuff about a neti pot, so I picked up one of those too. For anyone that doesn't know what a neti pot is, here is a link that kind of explains how they work. And I gotta tell ya, it's not fun to use one of these things. I felt like I was nearly drowning :) I'll try it again later, because the nasal sprays hurt my nose so much, but I'm not looking forward to it.
I have done nothing all day but sit on this sofa and surf Etsy. Seriously. And it feels good...

Sick day

Izzy and I had a sick day on Monday. I hadn't slept well the night before, and Izzy had been running a low-grade fever most of the weekend, so I thought it best to stay home that day. It was a fairly uneventful day (thankfully)...I got to take a few photos of her. It started to remind me of a snow day almost a year ago with her. I think Joacim was traveling or something, and we got a TON of snow...so much that I couldn't open the garage door. We were truly snowed in, so we had a photo session that day.
I wish I would've done that this past Monday, but for some reason, the thought didn't even occur to me until it was too dark. I did get a few, though...here's a cute one of her

She didn't have much of an appetite that day...oh wait, she doesn't have much of an appetite EVER, it seems! That day, she had 3 pieces of bread, 1/2 banana, some blueberries, and some shredded cheese. I'm not kidding, this is all that she would eat. I'm running out of ideas!!!!!
Here she is eating one of said pieces of bread