Oy, have I been sick! I usually don't go out of commission like this, but boy this cold/flu has been the worst EVER! I fill spare you the gory details of my cold, but let's just say I am now resurfacing - with my upper lip, despite my desperate attempts to keep it from going completely raw (hence my incredible use of chapsticks the past weeks)- well, my upper lip looks like I have a huge red mustache. This has been the source of much sympathy from friends and storekeepers when they see me, and just cannot suppress when they see the big red, raw upper lip coming towards them: "Are you sick?" Duuuh....
But now I am on the mend! Only a little coughing, nose blowing and sneezing left. Or so I thought...
Then I got hives or some sort of weird all over body itching allergic reaction a week ago which keeps hanging out with me. Yeepee!! I have no clue how people who live with psoriasis do it - the itching, the ITCHING is driving me nuts. Thankfully, after about a week it is subsiding and getting better.
I kind of think 3 weeks of illness bad enough to make me want to stay in a hole and not see anybody is enough, don't you? So nothing new had better show up!!
But, really, when I think about it, it is like this: Despite all of the above complaining I am grateful. After all - it is a cold. After all - it is hives. Nothing serious. It will pass. It is only three weeks. It reminds me my body works and protects me from all the nastier stuff out there. It reminds me how lucky I am to have an amazing husband who takes care of me. It reminds me how blessed I am.
2 comments:
Huffda, det hørtes ikke noe kjekt ut. Bra at du er på bedringens vei nå da, tre uker var lenge.
Det er greit å bli minnet på hvor heldige vi egentlig er, vi som stort sett er friske og raske. Får håpe du ikke får mer med det første!
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