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I fought the cold and the cold won
Today is the 28th day of the 3rd month and the 88th day of 2016 with 271 shopping days until Christmas. The moon is waning and today is:
- Barnum & Bailey Day
- Be Mad Day
- Children's Picture Book Day
- Commemoration of Sen no Rikyū
- Dyngus Day
- Easter Monday [AKA Little Easter for those who are lucky enough to have it off]
- Eat an Eskimo Pie Day
- National Black Forest Cake Day
- National Hot Tub Day
- National Something On a Stick Day
- Mule Day
- Virtual Advocacy Day
- Weed Appreciation Day
- White House Easter Egg Roll
In 37, the Roman emperor Caligula accepts the titles of the Principate [the actual tiles were princeps senatus and princeps civitatis ("first amongst the senators" / "first amongst the citizens")] from the Senate and enters Rome to wildly rejoicing throngs of supporters. It is said that 160,000 animals were sacrificed during three months of public rejoicing to usher in the new reign, which has been described in the first seven months as completely blissful as he focused on political reforms.
This time last week the cold was just starting to settle in -- and I didn't think it was going to be too bad, a little coughing, a little sniffling, and then all gone. HAH! I have been a snot-filled sneezing, snuffling, coughing joy to be around for days, and I can't get warm it would seem but I am not running a high enough fever to be considered sick. Wearily I start wondering if some sort of mutant virus has taken hold -- and yes, thank you very much, I realize it is just this kind of errant thought process that makes my daughter inform me that I am being over-dramatic ((Sheesh, where does she think her and her brother got their imaginations from anyway?)) This is now WEEK 2 of this cold that will not quit, and I am reminded that Captain Trips started just this way [insert lots of googling here on RSV and killer cold viruses]. And today I wake up with my very first case of raging pink eye, call off from work and call the doctor. Not that there is much that can be done -- both eyes are involved, the discharge is clear or white, cold compresses work much better than warm, and I hadn't been taking antihistamines because I was trying to take decongestants. So the odds are extremely high that it is a viral or allergic conjunctivitis, not bacterial, which means the doctor isn't going to prescribe antibiotic eyedrops [which are hard to find and pricey because I'm allergic to penicillan this days]. And no, knowing that both are "going around" isn't helping me feel any better at all.
When the kids were little and got sick, I would call Dr Wall [an old-fashioned pediatrician who actually gave me his home phone number, this being before the day and age of cell phones] and tell him the kid's temp was over 102 and I was starting the cool down routine [alternate baby aspirin and baby tylenol every two hours and a cool bath]. He would ask about the accompanying symptoms [sneezing, sniffling, throwing up, diarrhea, et al] and then sigh and inform me that it was going around and I would join the list of anxious parents who would get a call back the next day to see how they are doing. I would grumble that they caught every single thing "going around" and we coped. Someday, I thought, we wouldn't be a hot bed of what was going around.... And then my son developed a problem, and Dr Wall didn't say it was "going around" and told me to bring him in. Happened twice actually -- the first time he ended up with open heart surgery at the age of three and the second time he got his appendictus removed at the age of nine. After that? I was very grateful when I called in for either kid and got told it was "going around" .
But in any case, today I end up grudingly burning a day of leave just in case my conjunctivitis is contagious. I will be taking care of myself [translation: lollygagging about looking and feeling pathetic]. Tomorrow I'll be back in the office looking and sounding just wonderful -- red puffy eyes, coughing, sneezing, hacking up, snuffling and croaking et al, with limited productivity. According to what I have read, I [and my coworkers] have another week and a half of this left to enjoy, and that means I will be breathing in Lysol fumes as we try to manage their exposure to this cold. Wait, is that a twinge in my ear? OMG, there have been a lot of ear infections going around too? *cringes*
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