Monday, May 28, 2012

How sick is sick?

I'm sick today and have been since, I'm pretty sure, Saturday. I was feeling so crappy yesterday all I wanted to do was sleep but I had forgotten to bring all my meds with me and didn't have any to take last night or this morning which is making me feel even sicker. I know I'm running a fever and my insides want to come out. My stomach and intestines are all knotted up. I am so sick I can't even drive myself back to my sisters and she's coming to get me. She's bringing my med box (which looks like a big tool box) with her and I'm hoping once I get the meds in me will make me feel somewhat better but I'm not banking on it. Lord do I wish I was dead today. Oh yeah, because I didn't have any night time med's to take last night I only got about 3 hours worth of sleep so that's making me feel pretty bad as well. I brought this on myself by not packing an extra day's worth of medication but hey live and learn. I don't know what I was thinking by not making sure I had enough medications with me but in my defense I had thought I was going back to my sisters yesterday. I got up yesterday and wasn't feeling that great so I decided to stay another day. Stupid on my part thinking I was going to start feeling better without my medications.

Just so you have an idea of what I mean by medications, I have a toolbox full of them and supplements. I take Calcium, Vitamin D, Vitamin C, fish oil, and a multivitamin every day. In the morning I take 4  supplements and 11 other pills. Now some of them I take 2 of the same kind so it's really about 13 different things I take in the morning. I take 4 in the afternoon and at night I take 12 but again I take 2 of one of them. So you can see I take a lot of different medications. In the afternoon I take a supplement and then the other 3 I take are all ones I take in the morning. Sucks for me to have to take all of them but if I don't I don't function very well. I have to take pills for pain and to keep me awake and then at night I have to take meds to make me sleep. I have narcolepsy and chronic insomnia. Again sucks for me. I also have sleep apnea so I have to use a C-Pap machine at night, which I didn't use last night because I was hot and felt like crap and couldn't get comfortable on the couch here at my nephews. It was deathly hot here yesterday and I just couldn't get comfortable no matter what I did. Again sucks for me.

So here I sit waiting for my sister to drive 3 hours up here to get me to take me back to her house and I guess were going to leave the Saturn here as I don't think I can drive it back. In fact I think I'm going to have my sister drive the back roads home so in case I need to make a pit stop there MIGHT be somewhere where we can stop. If I remember from the way up here there isn't much to stop at but if I need to stop we can always pull to the side of the road and I can go there. On the interstate I wouldn't be able to do that. I'm starting to think maybe I'll just crawl in the back seat of my sister's car and sleep the whole way home.

I hope I feel better quick and may be doing that as my sister always has pepto in her car. I leave late tomorrow night (actually early Wednesday morning) to make my way back to MA and don't want to feel this way on the train. That would really suck for me. So let's pray it's only me being medication sick and after I take my med's I'll feel better and can get on with my day. I'm still going to go back to bed when I get back to my sisters because I'm so freaking tired it's not funny. If I have to I'm pretty sure I can drive myself back to my sister with a whole bunch of coffee or Iced Tea. I'll have to see if my sister can pick up some of that on her way in here because the only McDonald's between here and the state line is all the way down Interstate 69. Wish me luck.

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