Sinus Fun

I don’t often get sick, but when I do I get SICK. This time it is sinusitis, which is a lovely way of saying I have a horrible sinus infection that is laughing maniacally at all of the treatments we are doing. I’m on antibiotics until Wednesday, I’m not sure if they’ve been helping but I’m really hoping. My right nostril has been bleeding for almost 4 weeks now and it has really started to take a toll. We’ve tried different nasal sprays to get it to stop sooner or immediately but they just seem to make my nose angry when we try.

Along with the glorious nose bleeds I have migraines, hallucinations (we think caused by the migraines), extremely swollen lymph node that cause the entire right side of my face to hurt, and I can’t properly think. I can’t process what I see most of the time and when I do there is a possibility that I’m going to forget it. That was fun when I was still allowed to go to work. I stared at money and couldn’t remember what it was for, couldn’t remember what I person had just said, or remember what I did up to a few days ago.

I haven’t been allowed at work since Wednesday, apparently the customers don’t like it when their cashier is bleeding constantly, and it has been nice and terrible at the same time. The nice part has been being able to spend time with an awesome friend, clean some of my house, and not having to force myself to think through this illness induced haze. The terrible part is having to worry about how this is going to impact our budget. I’ve finally started to put together a good budget for our combined income and this happens to mess it up.

I’m hoping that I get to work some of next week but since it has been over 20 days of bleeding I’m not too hopeful. I am going to make an appointment with a specialist and see if there is anything they can do to make it stop, hopefully before I lose my job, and maybe make these lymph nodes stop hurting so badly. Until then I’m gonna take my meds, try not to move too much, and dream of the day I get to go back to my gym. I’m gonna hug that equipment so hard when I see it again.