Sickness

Can I just say that I hate being sick.  I'm not sick very often, but when I do get sick it is always at the worse time.  

Two years ago during Spring Break we went to Japan (thankfully the earthquake/tsunami/nuclear meltdown wasn't 2 years earlier) and I had a bad cold before we left and it turned into an ear infection and annoying cough/runny nose.  I was sick the whole time we were there.  It really put a damper on our awesome vacation to Japan.    

Last April my Grandpa and Grandma Allred had their 50 wedding anniversary so my family planned a big party for them and we all got to stay in this nice big house in Salt Lake together.  The night before the party I started throwing up and had the flu.  So I had to miss the party and stay in bed.  It was no fun.  

And here we are in present day and I am sick with Bronchitis.  But that's not all, I also passed out twice in the shower on Monday morning.  Let me back up.... I was supposed to be at a training for work this whole week.  Last Friday I started feeling sick and started with a cough.  Saturday I had a headache/body aches with a cough.  Sunday I had all of that but I was also congested.  We were leaving Sunday night at 7pm and staying in the Hotel because the training started at 8:30 in the morning and we didn't want to leave Logan that early. I felt sick, but I thought it was just a cold and that I could handle it.  A couple of hours before we left my Grandma took my temperature and it was at 102 degrees.  I probably shouldn't have gone, but my Step Mom and Grandma ran to Albertson's and got me some Emergence-C and we thought that would help my "cold".  Well Monday morning I wake up at 7am and get in the shower.  I'm almost finished when I get this feeling like I'm going to throw up.  I felt all clammy and I started to get dizzy.  I should have just gotten out of the shower, but I had conditioner in my hair and I thought I could hurry and rinse it out.  I lean up against the wall of the shower for a second and next thing I know I'm on the floor of the tub and my head is right next to the faucet (thankfully I didn't hit my head or neck on anything and hurt myself).  I hear my co-worker knocking on the door and asking me if I'm alright.  Apparently she heard my loud bang and woke right up!  I remember saying "I think I passed out" but I'm not sure how loud I actually said it.  She was asking me if I could get a towel and open the door and she could help me out.  So I stand up and the next thing I now I'm on the floor of the tub AGAIN!  So my coworker is still knocking and yelling my name.  I say again "I think I keep passing out".  I get the water turned off and a towel wrapped around me.  She helps me out and I get dressed then I lay down.  It was so weird because I've never passed out before.   I called Clark and he so lovingly drove down from Logan and picked me up.  While he was driving down he called his Mom and she made me a Doctor's appointment in Kaysville.  That is when I learned I had Bronchitis, caused by a bacterial infection and he thought I passed out because I was dehydrated.  My pulse was fast and my blood pressure was on the high side.  I thought I was drinking SO much water.  I have a 24 oz water bottle that I had at least filled up 3 times on Sunday and this was Monday morning so I obviously didn't drink much during the night.  But apparently when you are sick you need 1 gallon of liquids and 1/3 of them should be something with electrolytes.  So I'm finally starting to feel a little better.  I can't stop coughing which makes me really tired, but other than that I feel a lot better than I did.  Since I missed my training I will have to go back down in April.  Let's hope I don't get sick again!