Feeling Froggy!

Well, for the past 5 days I have been sick. Serves me right! I had a staff meeting last Wednesday with my employees and basically read them the riot act for there sick leave utilization. Many of the employees have worked for us more than 5 years and have no leave built up what-so-ever. I told them that no one had to own up but there are those who won't come to work because they have a headache, or their big toe hurts, or they have bad breath. And of course they laughed but got the point. As I was giving this speech for the second shift I started coughing. I even had to give my voice a rest and have my QA Manager present some of the meeting information. So Thursday I woke up and felt terrible. Of course no way could I call in the day after I dressed my employees out for calling in sick so much! Friday I could hardly get out of bed because I felt so weak. I went to work and by 11:00 I had two big lumps in my neck that I could feel in my throat...though my throat wasn't sore. I also had sooooo much pain in my face from sinus swelling. I finally gave up the fight and went home. I slept until 7AM Saturday morning, getting up only to get a drink of water and to go to the bathroom. I tried to do a couple of things but was so weak. It took me ALL WEEKEND to clean my apartment. My apartment is about as big as our living room in MBoro.

So Monday I went to work feeling bad. I went to morning meeting and at the end told my boss I was headed to the doctor's office and would probably go home again. I couldn't get into see my doctor so I went to the ER. My right ear was infected...that was a surprise as it didn't even bother me. Ok guys, you might not want to read this part...only for the women! And I had developed a new symptom on Sunday.....breast pain and lump. I was sure it was an infection that was affecting the lymph nodes. So the doctor put me on strong meds and sent me home for a couple of days. The next day I was back in the ER. Did you know that the infection was climbing up the ducts as I had red streaks going in funny shapes, one of which was climbing the breast like blood poisioning. Frankly, I was worried that the infection was in the blood vessels and I did have blood poisoning. The doctor ran some tests and felt that it was still the infection. I was really feeling much better so since I was at the VA anyway, I went to the office and worked a few hours. So in all I was in the office part time during the three days and back full time today.

Now, here is the best part.....I lost my voice....T O D A Y! I can't figure out why after everything else I was loosing my voice. I finally feel better and loose my voice. My bosses secretary called me today and seems she is in the same shape....well, minus the breast. After being home sick for 4 days and finally starting to feel better she got up this morning and had lost her voice. This is some weird virus/infection that we are sharing around work!

I'm on my way to Florida Saturday to spend time with family. I'm looking forward to seeing Mom and Dad getting some quite time with them. Mitizi and Shawna Pape will be there and we all will be staying at Dianna's. Shawna is into a juicing program and is going to teach us all how to be healthier. I for one am looking forward to it. However....juicing spinach??? I'm not sure I will be able to get past the look! It should prove interesting! Since I will be relaxing I may have time to do more postings. So, look for our progress as the week goes!