Sick

I don't feel good. You should be thankful that you can't catch my germs over the internet. It's not life-threatening for any of you that were afraid that my blog would have to be shut down, taking away one of your favorite pass times. It's just annoying.

It all started last night, feeling just a little bit like a cold. This morning, though, I had to take the ACT's and it all started going down in the testing room. You know when everything goes to the back of your throat and it's really uncomfortable to swallow? I have that feeling right now, along with an itch in my throat that coughing won't get rid of. Both of which make me feel really tired and unmotivated to do much.

The thing that makes me hate my small illness is that I have to work tomorrow. Although I have been trained as a checker, I have been working as a bagger for the past few weeks. Overall, I like it (it's nice to go back to a simpler job), but it has one unfortunate task this time of year: carts. The freezing temperatures made me feel like I'm going to come down with something even when I am healthy. Now that I'm actually sick, I'm worried it will make me feel worse.

When I think about it, I haven't been extremely sick in a long time. My most vivid memory of a serious illness would be when I got pneumonia three years in a row: 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade (though the second two years were not as bad as the first). I remember being extremely tired, 105 degree fevers, and having an allergic reaction to my medicine (which involved hallucinations and overall loopiness- I asked my sister whether she was a boy or a girl). The first year I came down with it, I was out of school for a week (though I insisted on coming to school for picture day because I refused to go to the make-up day: picture day was for normal kids. Make-up day was for creepy kids, and I worried that if I had to go to that one, I would be addicted to cigarettes before I had said cheese.).

Since then, though, the most I have been out of school is three days at a time (at least for being sick). I suppose without the germs of an elementary school, it has been easier to stay healthy. Who knows? The one thing I am sure about is that I don't want to break my sick-day record. With high school, as those who read this should know, if you miss a day, you miss a lot.