No Sick Days for Mom
Late last week, I started feeling the way I sometimes feel when I swim in a pool or hot tub with a lot of chlorine. I wasn’t sure what triggered it, but I had a strange feeling it was the 20+ mosquito bites I got on our family walk one evening. It was the morning after when I woke up with that slight tickle in my nose. Unfortunately, like that allergic reaction to chlorine sometimes does, it graduated into a full sinus infection. No other symptoms, and aside from the lack of sleep due to not being able to breathe, I felt good, just tired.
Sadly, it really took a toll on my week. I had a ton of work to do so I couldn’t take any down time, I had to miss out my son’s baseball game to avoid people, the kids didn’t go to grandma’s for the two days they normally do so I had to work extra hard to get my work done, and it was just a loooong week.
Does anyone else find that when mom’s sick, you don’t really get to be sick? You still have to do all the things? I found that this week. Even though I wasn’t that “sick”, I still would have loved to just lay around until I could fully breathe again. However, that wasn’t possible.
Aside from work and kid stuff, I spent way too much time scrolling on my phone and had absolutely no energy for my goal planning I’ve been doing. I was able to get a few runs in, but they were not even close to my best and now I’m worried about my progress to my goal of running a 5K in under 30 minutes.
All this to say that sometimes I wish I could just hit the pause button when I get sick. Let the work go, let the house go, let the goals go, let the kids go (to their dad for everything), let everything go and just sink into the fluffy covers and float away on a cloud of Zyrtec.
Luckily, I am now on the upswing and feeling about 90% so the outlook is good. That’s about all I wanted to say in this post. Not the most thought-provoking, but I didn’t want to add “missing a weekly blog post” to my list of crap I didn’t get to this week.
One thing good that did come out of this week was the reminder of how important good health is. SO SO important. All I could think of while I was blowing my nose for the millionth time in an hour was “I can’t believe I took feeling so good and breathing so easily for granted.” It’s been a long time since I was sick, and to think about all those days I wasted not being grateful for feeling amazing and just sitting around not enjoying it was very frustrating.
Don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone? Have you ever felt that way when you were sick or in some other situation where you had not appreciated what you had before?
Have a great week!
