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Checking in with my Atlas thread friends. I got a bug the first week of December, had a mild fever part of one day, then it seemed to be getting better. Dry throat at first, didn't feel at all sick, then I sounded like Lurch for a week. Then, the coughing began and I mean the "can't catch your breath-choke at the end-then sneeze" type cough. I've done herbal extracts and tinctures and teas, downed cold & flu gel caps until I look like one, antihistamines, Mucinex 12 hr tablets, homemade cough syrup made by my husband of raw honey, lemon and vodka, vaporizer with essential oils to sanitize the air, etc, etc. It's still here and my ribs high up on my right side feel bruised/broken from coughing and I've lost so much sleep even if I'm physically in bed for 7 hours that I feel drained. I can't even finish quilting my quilt I was in the middle of when this started because it's fairly large and a physical task that requires pushing and pulling it through the machine, which is painful because of the ribs, not to mention you can't control your movements while hacking your lungs out. Never had anything like this that I can remember. It's darn inconvenient!
It's been weird because I was sick last December with something different after a family dinner, and before that, it was about 20 years since I had contracted anything. Tom is also exhausted, coughing but not as much as I am. I haven't even seen anyone over the holidays so he must have brought the germ back from Walmart or his doctor's office. Still, we have to drag ourselves out to the barn to take care of the feathered horde. And it's been super cold here for January at our location, got almost 5" snow a few days ago and now, it's just frozen in places and muddy in others. I have a dr appt in 8 days for something different, just a lab results test deal; it was supposed to be this past Tuesday, but they postponed it or I'd have asked about this crud I can't shake.
I am excited to get hatching eggs next month, though. Old Bash, Brandy and his daughter, Cora, are still with us as are Atlas's two daughters, Zara and Athena, all the oldsters, though Jill and her daughter, Maddie, are technically old now as well. I wonder if Bash will make it to 9 years old like Atlas did. Hope you are all doing well!
It's been weird because I was sick last December with something different after a family dinner, and before that, it was about 20 years since I had contracted anything. Tom is also exhausted, coughing but not as much as I am. I haven't even seen anyone over the holidays so he must have brought the germ back from Walmart or his doctor's office. Still, we have to drag ourselves out to the barn to take care of the feathered horde. And it's been super cold here for January at our location, got almost 5" snow a few days ago and now, it's just frozen in places and muddy in others. I have a dr appt in 8 days for something different, just a lab results test deal; it was supposed to be this past Tuesday, but they postponed it or I'd have asked about this crud I can't shake.
I am excited to get hatching eggs next month, though. Old Bash, Brandy and his daughter, Cora, are still with us as are Atlas's two daughters, Zara and Athena, all the oldsters, though Jill and her daughter, Maddie, are technically old now as well. I wonder if Bash will make it to 9 years old like Atlas did. Hope you are all doing well!
