It Started Out As A Neck Ache

I woke up Tuesday morning with a bad neck ache on my left side. My first thought was that I had slept wrong and strained the muscles in my neck. By the afternoon I knew that something else was wrong because my left ear started throbbing. I knew that I probably had an ear infection, but I just kept on going because things need to get done. I took some ibuprofen that evening to help with the pain and so that I could get some sleep.

On Wednesday morning I woke up feeling even worse with body aches and congestion. I don’t know what I was expecting, I just know that I hate going to the doctor because I don’t like to spend the money. So I dug around in the medicine cabinet to see what I could find that might help ease my symptoms and I found some Mucinex and a bottle of amoxicillin that I had leftover from a previous ear infection. I took one dose of the amoxicillin and decided not to take the Mucinex because it can elevate my blood pressure and I already have enough trouble with that.

I slept off and on while the boys were at school and then got myself together long enough to take my oldest son to the dentist. My son is a lot like me in that he has a lot of anxiety when it comes to visiting dentists or doctors, so it was quite the experience! They couldn’t take x-rays because he would panic and start gagging when they went to put those little things in his mouth so they just filled the one cavity that they could see.

By the time we got home I had decided that I didn’t feel like cooking dinner so we ordered pizza instead. When I went to bed my husband said he thought I had a fever because my face was so warm. I took my temperature and he was right. Ugh. I hate being sick!

Today hasn’t been any better. I woke up and couldn’t breathe out of my nose and my ears were both throbbing. I have been taking ibuprofen and the amoxicillin as often as I can hoping that I’ll start feeling better. Today is normally laundry day but I haven’t felt like doing much of anything so I only washed my husband’s work clothes. This evening I broke down and took some Mucinex hoping that it would help me get some relief. I am feeling a little better but my ears are still hurting and I’m hoarse.

My mom called and made me promise to go to the doctor tomorrow so I guess that’s what I will be doing for part of the day. I have to finish the laundry and get next week’s meal plan made sometime tomorrow as well. I also have several posts to write that should have been done earlier in the week, so I’ll be blogging over the weekend to catch up. I hope you all have a great weekend!