365 Pink Feather Boas All in a Row - Day 11: My Love Affair With Cotton Balls Renewed

...or yet more blood samples - hooray! (Courtesy of my lovely doctor, Eddie today who confirmed that I need the antibiotics I am on and ordered a battery of blood tests to work out exactly what is afflicting me, thus giving me the chance for yet another cotton wool bud shot as a companion to last year's one.)

Yes I am sick again in January. Last year my body selected pneumonia as the sickness of choice; this year, bored with so pedestrian a disease, it selected a staph infection of my pharynx, which is the part of the throat that bridges the mouth and esophagus. Of course it didn't stop there.


No, not content with inflicting a cripplingly painful sore throat on me, that interrupted sleep, and the eating of everything but soft pasta dishes, chicken soup and 2 minute noodles (which incidentally you can do in less time than that depending on how ADHD you feel at the time), it also gave me a rash, arthritic type pain in my joints, and a general feeling of blah-feverish-crap..... yes a captivating mix isn't it?


It also gave me the chance to have to explain to my endlessly sweet, understanding boss that yet again I was really sick, which was embarrassing to say the least, and that I had managed to get really sick in the same month as I did last year. If nothing else I guess I will get points for consistency in my performance appraisal....


On the plus side, I did get lots of sympathetic hugs and kisses from my beautiful guy, who also stopped off at 24 hour pharmacies to get me lozenges and calamine lotion, as well as buying me copious amounts of 2 minute noodles and creamy chicken soups.... so it wasn't all a loss....


But it does make me wonder why I bother to eat right and exercise lots normally, when my body basically gives me the finger and gets sick anyway......