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August 10th, 2010

Headache Headache Go Away

The dog days of summer are definitely upon us, and with them my headaches have returned in full force. I’ve had a sinus headache all day that refuses to go away no matter what I do to relieve it. The baby is suffering right now as well. She woke up sounding like she’s got an itty bitty frog in her throat, and she’s been pretty fussy most of the day. It’s time to breakout her Zyrtec again.

Now I have to sit down and make myself go over the bills. It’s just really hard to concentrate on something I hate doing when I’ve got this killer headache. Heck it’s hard to concentrate on bills when I’m feeling fine and in a great mood.

Oh well it’s something that has to be done, and I need to get to it before the little one wakes up. It’s become impossible to do anything on the pc when she’s awake as she immediately spots my netbook and pitches a fit to have it. She completely ignores the little baby laptop we bought her because it’s nothing like Mommy’s real one.

If I get the bills done before she wakes up I’m going to start pulling out some stuff to yard sale. I have a ton of clothes to get rid of again including some coogi shirts that were given to me. None of them fit, and my aunt said to do whatever I wanted with the ones that didn’t fit, so they are all going straight into the yard sale pile. I’m hoping to go through all the baby clothes we have today as well because I have a ton of those that we aren’t keeping. It’s time to pass them onto someone else who needs them and get them out of my house!

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July 5th, 2010

Not Sleeping This Time

Well it looks like I won’t be going to sleep anytime soon after all as my pounding headache multiplies by 10,000 every time my head touches the pillow. I decided if my head is going to keep me awake I should at least get some blogging and some work done. I turned on the tv as background noise and settled back down at the pc, but now I think I’ll have to get back up to change it as there’s a commercial for extenze on. It’s too distracting to get any work done.

That reminds me I should seriously buy a new universal remote. I’m tired of having to get up to change the tv in my office when something distracting comes on because the remote was lost long ago. Of course I could just leave the tv off, but surprisingly I work better when there’s a bit of noise in the room.

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June 23rd, 2010

Darn Stomach Bug

There has been a lot of sickness running around our household this week.  Ellie has been sick off and on since last Wednesday.  I thought she might have an ear infection, but after a trip to the doctor on Friday I found out her ears are fine.  The doctor thought it was a combination of her teething and her sinuses (even though she’s on Zyrtec).  She’s definitely cutting a new tooth, so I think that was most of it, but now I think she’s picked up another bug.

Hubby and I are notorious for passing around stomach bugs.  He’ll pick one up at work, and it’ll take us weeks to get rid of it no matter how much I Lysol.  He had one this weekend, and now it looks like Ellie has grabbed a touch of it.  She woke up this morning in a really bad mood, and she refused to eat most of the morning.  She didn’t even want to breastfeed, so I knew something was wrong.

I started feeling sick this morning, too, and by 10am we were both having stomach issues.  I finally got her to drink some juice, and shortly after she had a round of diarrhea, 3 diapers worth.  After that she seemed fine again, her mood changed, and when I tried to feed her again she ate double what she normally eats plus breastfed.  Then she drifted off to sleep, so I’m hoping she just had a light case of the bug that’s come and gone.

I was supposed to go shopping with my sister today.  She wanted me to look at a Samsung TV that she wants to buy, but I figured it would be best if we stayed home. I don’t want to infect her with any kind of virus that she can take home to her 2 week old son, so it’s best to stay away until I know we’re in the clear. The TV will still be there a few days from now, and I don’t think we could have gotten it home today anyway. Of course we could have had someone at the store load it up for us, but the one she wants is a 42″, so it wouldn’t have fit in her Rodeo with the baby in the backseat. Plus she’d have to wait until Hubby got home to unload it for her, so I told her it’s probably best if she waits until this weekend to get it anyway.

Even if I didn’t have to worry about passing whatever this is onto her, I just don’t feel like leaving the house today anyway.  What I really feel like doing is taking a nap, but I know as soon as I get comfortable enough to fall asleep it’ll be time for Elliana to wake up.  Oh well.  Maybe next nap time I can catch a few zzz’s of my own.

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April 30th, 2010

Totally Sinus

Ok so it IS totally sinus stuff.  I woke up this morning with my ear swollen, red, and pounding.  It felt like someone had hit me in the side of my face with a sledge hammer.  I think I have it under control now, though.  Before Ellie woke up I successfully popped some Tylenol, heated up a sock full of rice, and dropped some olive oil in my ear.

I laid in bed reading the news while I laid there with the sock on my ear.  I really haven’t had a lot of time to read the news this week, so I wanted to catch up on stuff, especially what’s going on with the gulf coast and the oil stuff right now.  I had just read about the Gulf Coast Jones Act a few days before all this stuff started happening.

Anywho, after a few minutes the pain was gone just in time for Ellie to wake up. A hour later the swelling had gone down, and the redness went away with it. I’m hoping things stay like this because I really don’t want to have to take a trip to Urgent Care this weekend. At least now I know I don’t need a dentist!

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