Posts tagged sick
I Survived The Flu
Oct 30th
Ugh. Yeah, it’s been a while since I posted but I have a good reason for that. If you’ve looked at my twitter feed at all for the past week or so you’ll have noticed I’ve been sick with the flu.
It came on Saturday (although I didn’t realize it at the time) in the form of a particularly bad cough. I still went out with my friends to check out one of the haunted houses in the area and afterwords to go see Paranormal Activity in the theater. But I’ll split that out into a seperate post as I try to catch up here.
Sunday I was out. I woke up early with a slight fever and decided to just go back to bed. After sleeping until around 10:45, I woke up again and made myself breakfast, at which point I went back to bed again. I woke up around 3 with a fever of roughly 102 so I decided I’d drag myself to the doctor to see about getting some anti-virals or something because I tend to get hit pretty hard when the flu comes knocking (when I catch it. I usually don’t get it at all). After a couple hours of waiting in the waiting room at Urgent Care with a demon child named “Anthony” running around and screaming, I was brought in and given some Tamiflu.
Monday, I was feeling better, but still had a fever. The fever was gone by Tuesday though thankfully and I went back to work Wednesday.
Of course now I have my fun lingering cough situation that always happens to me after I get sick. I’m going to be coughing for weeks now…it’s horrible…
I’m also feeling a bit…laggy. I’m operating a bit slower than usual and I’m pretty tired despite having a full nights sleep last night. Hopefully it goes away.
Just a couple of smaller updates: I did get the new Transatlantic album on Monday (look for a post about that later too) and also the new Trans-Siberian Orchestra album which I’ll probably talk about in my transatlantic post.
Needle Roadblock (With Bonus Fish Update)
Oct 20th
I realized that I never mentioned how my plans for a productive weekend went with all the fish drama that happened.
Well, I got a little stuck working on my Mom’s website, trying to make a sewing needle in Adobe Illustrator. Specifically, I ended up fighting the program when it came to gradients. I was trying to make it look less flat and I can’t put a standard gradient on it because it doesn’t conform to the shape of the needle and looks stupid. So I played around with blends which, while cool aren’t working for what I need it to work for and then I moved over to seeing if I could do it with a gradient mesh, but that just got overly complicated really quickly.
So once I got to the point of frustration I decided to give it a rest and do some quick thumbnail sketching for a new personal site design/blog layout. That particular effort was fairly productive, but I haven’t gotten much done beyond that stage.
Mostly it was running around on fish related errands.
Speaking of Fish, my betta has apparently stopped eating as of yesterday. I decided that it might be some sort of bacterial infection and grabbed some anti-bacterial stuff for him, so hopefully something helps. After I put that in he was a lot more active for a short period of time, but returned to sulking in the corner after a while.
I’m working up ideas on how I want to restock my 20 gallon tank now with the loss of my blue gourami. I think I’ll replace her with a slightly smaller fish in order to have more room for another school of…something. Haven’t determined that quite yet. But I’m hoping to purchase the replacement on my way home from work tomorrow whatever that might end up being. I’m still considering.
Sick Fish Weekend
Oct 19th
I’ve had a bit of a rocky weekend when it comes to Fish care.
First, my betta (Fish). Fish had been very lethargic and depressed for a while, mostly sulking in his tank. I think he may possibly have velvet, but we’ll see if that’s the issue. Anyway, I decided it was about time that I should grab some medication to help him out. No change so far, but I’m going to give it some time. If you’re unfamiliar with fish diseases, Velvet is a parasite that attaches to the outside of the fish. After a period of time the attached parasite bursts and deposits spores to grow new parasites. And then these new ones swim around looking for fish to attach to. You can only kill it when it’s floating around in the water, so it’s not an instant improvement type of med.
Additionally, Saturday, after the lights came on in my 20 gallon fish tank, I noticed that my Blue Gourami had developed what looked like a fungal infection. But after doing some more research, I determined that it might actually be a bacterial disease that looks like a fungus.
Unfortunately, despite my best attempts at curing the fish, she died sometime last night. Boo.
Hopefully Fish makes it through ok.
Post Cold Update
Oct 16th
Time for an update. I’m still working on getting over the cold I contracted earlier in the week. It’s been pretty mild except for Wednesday where I had to call in to work on account of being very tired and a little dizzy. It was one of those colds that just went straight to your head. Thankfully the cough situation has been mild, but knowing me, I’ll probably have a lingering cough for a few weeks. It’s how I operate.
Speaking of Wednesday, that was the day the apartment complex maintenance guys decided to actually do some maintenance. On the roof. Above my bedroom. And then when that was done, the punk kid who lives across the hall (but our bedrooms share a wall) apparently discovered techno music which he enjoyed playing ridiculously loud with the bass turned way up. People really need to understand the physics of sound and subwoofers when they move into an apartment…
So needless to say, my day of rest wasn’t so restful. But despite it all, I’m feeling better and want to actually be productive this weekend. I haven’t done much non-class graphic design stuff in a little while, so I want to get back to working on my mom’s website and trying to finish that design this weekend. I also really want to do a theme for this blog/my personal website at some point to make it look less…generic. Maybe I can poke at that a bit this weekend too.
Speaking of school, things are going well there. I can’t believe it’s roughly halfway through the semester right now. Time’s been flying by and I’ve been busy working on my projects. We’re recreating one page articles now from magazines and I found a review of Dream Theater’s latest album in my Classic Rock Presents Prog magazine. It looked fairly simple when I chose it, but it ended up being…complicated. Lots of images and text boxes and lines that I had to spec out and measure. I’m about ready to start working with it on the computer though. Making some good progress and my grades are good as well.
Looking forward to a (hopefully) productive weekend.
The Season Starts.
Oct 13th
Cold season that is. Urgh. I’m feeling pretty crappy, but I’m at work today anyway since I have some stuff I have to do. And I’m saving my sick day in case I feel absolutely horrible tomorrow. For now, I bide my time until the Pharmacy opens.
I figured I’d be sick this week after both my friends and roommates came down with a cold over the weekend. At least it happened after the wine country trip.
27 minutes until I can get some Sudafed…
Foot Update
Aug 18th
Well, I picked the one day to get injured where my doctors office didn’t have a working x-ray machine, so I had to go over to Urgent Care. After much waiting around it was determined that I might have a small fracture in my foot. The X-Ray wasn’t exactly clear, but there was a little “anomaly” as they called it that could be a fracture, so they’re treating it as such.
I got one of those special shoe type things that limits my foot motion when I walk. I was also outfit with crutches which I’m not sure how much use they’ll get. I’m so totally not coordinated enough to use these things. But I figure I can at least use one of them to help me keep some of my weight off of it when I’m walking.
I had planned on going to the State Fair at the end of next week, but this throws those plans into jeopardy… Hopefully I’ll be feeling better by then but I don’t want to push it.
Bad News Day
Aug 18th
Bunch of ungood stuff happened last night.
First of all, my Betta, Fish has been looking a little lethargic lately. He’s been hanging out at the bottom of the tank and not moving at all except for eating.
I shined a flashlight on him and I think I see the beginnings of an infection of Velvet. I changed his water last night and I’m planning to see how he reacts to that before I decide to do anything to him more drastic than that.
Which leads me to bad thing number 2. I was finishing up changing his water when I missed the last step on the stairs in our apartment and ended up falling. My right foot was pointed down towards the ground and I landed on it with pretty much my entire body weight, bending my toes backwards in directions which toes should never bend.
It hurts a lot and I can’t really put much weight on it. I can still move my toes so I don’t believe anything is broken, but I’m going to try to get in to see my doctor about it today in case I did something serious to it.
More Moving Stuff
Mar 23rd
Whew….ok, it's been quite a long time since I posted.
The last week has been weird. Far enough away from the move where I couldn't pack much and close enough where I felt like I should be doing SOMETHING. I did some limited packing and organizing of the random stuff in my bedroom., but I couldn't really do much more than that.
And then…I got a cold. Out of all the times to get a cold, it had to be now right? I guess it wasn't helping that I've been a little stressed and thinking about how all this move related stuff is going to work. But regardless, I ended up with a cold starting tuesday/wednesday and I didn't start really feeling better until saturday and especially sunday.
Saturday I went out to my friends apartment so we could do a little window shopping of possible outdoor furniture for the balcony of the new apartment. We ended up finding some decent chairs in Target that were cheap enough to not break the budget and weren't the standard straight plastic ugly looking chairs. So that's something to keep in mind as we get settled in.
Sunday was a major packing day though, finally. I've got most of the stuff that I'm not still using on a day to day basis packed up now. It's starting to look really bare in here.
I'll try to keep this updated over the next week or two, but this is when stuff really starts to happen. We should get the keys on Wednesday and the plan is to be moved in over this friday-monday and work on settling where everything is going to be. So I'm going to be really busy starting very soon.
Monday Of Fail
Dec 30th
I had a little bit of a late Christmas present yesterday. I woke up at around 2 am with a very unhappy stomach. I sat in bed for a little while until it felt like I could move and then went to get a little glass of water. Obviously that was not a good decision as I ended up making a mad dash to the bathroom instead. I ended up not going into work because I was still feeling a little off and very tired. As near as I can tell, something I ate disagreed with me violently, since after that it was a steady progression of getting better all day. Nothing else which indicated that it was an actual stomach bug.
While I was home though I decided I wanted to start my macbook into Windows so I could play some Civilization 4 to pass the time. Before that I had installed the demo for a game a friend of mine (Jay) recommended (Overlord) and…I'm not sure what happened but that seemed to trigger my windows install to totally melt down. So I spent the morning reinstalling windows XP and calling microsoft to prove that I wasn't a pirate.
And the print for my new piece of artwork that has been previously referenced was delayed by UPS due to a late trailer, so that didn't come yesterday either.
Oh, and then I totally screwed up the chicken I was making for dinner, making me get take out.
So pretty much the best thing that happened yesterday was that I didn't end up with a cripling stomach ilness. This week is going to be looong as I'm really looking forward to doing a lot of hanging out with my friends this weekend. Is it friday yet?
Updates For All!!
Nov 19th
Update Number 1: The Fish
Last night when I came home from work, Tetra #3 had died. This leaves me two tetras left, who seem to be swimming around much easier than the others were. They're still not eating anything that I can see though, so it may only be a matter of time before they crash as well.
I'm continuing to medicate for a fungal infection with the side effect of the meds being that it medicates for a bacterial infection as well, so hopefully that'll knock the problem out.
Update Number 2: The Car
I took my car into the dealer because the drivers side door wouldn't open from the outside. I dropped it off there and waited while they worked on it, playing Hearts on the computer they had set up in the customer lounge. Very handy. They also had some nice donuts which was good because I had forgotten to make myself some breakfast when I left because i was too busy playing with the New Xbox Experience update that was released for the Xbox 360 this morning. I'll probably post up my impressions on that later.
Anyway, as it turns out, the cable that was hooked to the door handle became unhooked. So they hooked it up and got it all straightened out and sent me on my way, no charge. I'm not to worried about it now…if it happens again I might start asking more questions, but fluke stuff happens every now and then.
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