Sometimes, insomnia comes in the morning....waking hours after falling asleep, and hours before there's a need to waken.
It's especially frustrating on a Saturday!
I had a flu bug or something this past week. Fever, headache, body aches, sinus congestion, cough. Missed a day of work, and rested a lot.
It wasn't bad, though. I'm over it already. Others at work have been sicker for longer, so I figure I dodged the bullet.
This was nothing like that thing I had last year, around this same time, when I had a fever over 100 for 5 days (my body's normal temp is 97, so that was like 102 for someone who runs at 98.6). I missed 2 and a half days of work (that is unheard of for me!), and ended up having to drive myself to the urgent care on the weekend, because I was getting worse, and had started feeling faint.
THAT was an adventure. Almost passed out in the stairwell going down to my car. A neighbor found me sitting on the stairs with my head between my knees.
He helped me to my car, and asked me to call him when I got home. That was nice. (He also offered to drive me there, but I knew it would mean hours of waiting, and I didn't feel it was appropriate to ask this of a virtual stranger.)
Why didn't I call a family member or friend to help me? I have NO idea....used to taking care of myself, I guess. Thought I could tough it out, like usual....
Anyway, once there, I sat in the waiting area for 2 hours, on and off with my head between my knees to keep from passing out.
Finally saw the doctor, and he wrote me a scrip for antibiotics, even though he said it was probably a virus. He asked me why I hadn't gone to my doctor. I said, "I don't have a doctor anymore...she moved too far away."
He said I was faint probably because of the fever dehydrating me, despite my incessant consumption of water and tea.
After the first 2 antibiotic pills, I was better...so it must have been a combination of bacterial and viral.
All I know is that I was very, very sick, and it was scary to have to deal with it alone. Again.
Hopefully, that was the last time. Some day, maybe later this year, I hope to have a live-in husband!!
Anyway, where was I?
Oh yes, insomnia in the morning.
I had looked forward, with great relish, to being able to sleep for as long as I wanted to last night/this morning. I felt that it would be the extra "health insurance" I would need to regain my immunity.
My idiot neighbor, the king of disruption, was very quiet last night, and so the opportunity was there.
Yet, I woke many times in the night, and then, at 5 something this morning, my eyes popped open, and that was the end of it.
After tossing and turning for 2 hours, thinking about everything from how my dad looked while he was dying, to cat carriers and how best to relocate an elderly avian.....I admitted that it was futile, and got up to make coffee.
The sun is just now coming up.
It's going to be a long, lonely day.
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