This past almost week has been so frustrating! Wednesday I decided to put the "run every day" challenge on hold while I focused on getting better. I ended up going to urgent care that night because I had a fever - so I KNEW that I had a sinus infection.. Lo and behold.. a sinus infection. I was thankful that the doctor knew that I had my fair share of experiences with sinus infections and let me tell him what medications worked for me. Typically the doctor tries to prescribe me Amoxicillin, despite the fact that I have told them countless times that it doesn't work for me.. Growing up I had about 9+ strep throat occurrences per year, and ever since I had my tonsils out in high school, it's been 4-6 sinus infections per year.. Amoxicillin and Penicillin do NOT work for me. So, I left urgent care with the Z-pack and cough syrup with codeine.
Thursday was just plain awful.. My sinus infection was getting better - but the cough was worse. I ended up not getting ANY sleep Thursday night. I went to bed at nine and got maybe 2 hours of broken sleep between then and 5:40 when I woke up for the last time. I laid in bed from then until 8 am unable to get any more sleep.
Friday was worse. I literally could not stop coughing. I would go maybe a minute without coughing at the most. This is when I started doubting whether or not I'd be able to run the Stonyfield 5k the next day. I had decided that even if I didn't run it, that I was going to go out anyways and support some friends that were running it. I called the nurse after work and they decided that they wanted to see me again. The doctor prescribed me a cough medication that cut off all cough reflexes, as well as hydrocodone for pain and to sleep. When I got home and took the medication, I immediately felt relief. I was so excited because I was not coughing, and with the vicodin and cough medicine w/ codeine, I was definitely on my way to a good nights sleep. The relief was short lived because as soon as I laid down, I started immediately coughing non stop again. At about 5:30 am, I was on the verge of a mental breakdown from no sleep in 2 days - so I called the nurse line AGAIN and she suggested falling asleep with a cough drop - which actually worked.. though I'm not sure it's the smartest thing to do because of the choking hazard it presents.. oh well.. I got some sleep.
I obviously did not end up going to the 5k that Saturday. I was super bummed. This was the first race that I've had to miss because of sickness. And not only was it a race - but I was running it in memory of the events of Boston last week. A few members from the Mom's Run This Town group were going to dress up in Boston gear and take a picture @ the start line.. I can't believe that I had to miss it :(
I was starting to feel better yesterday, so I had planned on meeting up with one of the mom's for a 6 am run this morning. OF COURSE my body decides to give me another sleepless night - so I ended up having to cancel that.. I'm running a 5.6 mile run on Sunday and I have barely run all week.. UGH! I really hope that I'm better soon.. I WANT to do this challenge so bad. I also WANT to get back to the gym. I started back on the clean eating wagon today and so far so good - but I want to go at it 100% - which I really can't do right now because I'm not getting any sleep to be able to actually get up and workout.
Here's to hopefully getting better soon so I can get back on track!
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