Yesterday I felt like death. I had originally thought it was just my seasonal allergies acting up. But, the pollen count has been pretty low these past few days...according to my handy-dandy iPhone app - Zyrtec AllergyCast. So, I thought that maybe it was a cold I had picked up from some coworkers. I haven't felt this bad in years. How much snot can one person produce?Since our family doctor retired last month, Linda & I are inbetween doctors and haven't found a general family practitioner yet. 
My symptoms didn't warrant a visit to the ER, and I didn't want to go to the Urgent Care at Walgreens, so I toughed it out...with the help of Tylenol Cold, some Vicks VapoRub, some Cold-Eeze zinc lozenges and loads of vitamin C. This morning I woke up feeling better and on the road to recovery. Weird thing was I wasn't running a fever...so who knows what it was? I hate being sick. And I'm not a baby when I'm sick...but man did I feel like hell. On top of not feeling good, yesterday morning I was laying in bed and felt a good stretch coming on. And, man was it a great 
stretch. In all my exertion and when I was arching my back, I felt a crunch and heard a snap in my neck...and then this excruciating pain permeate through my neck and shoulders. How does that happen?? Even larger doses of Tylenol have numbed that pain, but I have a hard time moving my head from side-to-side. At the moment, I feel like that girl from "Sixteen Candles" with the back brace who can't move her neck.
My symptoms didn't warrant a visit to the ER, and I didn't want to go to the Urgent Care at Walgreens, so I toughed it out...with the help of Tylenol Cold, some Vicks VapoRub, some Cold-Eeze zinc lozenges and loads of vitamin C. This morning I woke up feeling better and on the road to recovery. Weird thing was I wasn't running a fever...so who knows what it was? I hate being sick. And I'm not a baby when I'm sick...but man did I feel like hell. On top of not feeling good, yesterday morning I was laying in bed and felt a good stretch coming on. And, man was it a great 
stretch. In all my exertion and when I was arching my back, I felt a crunch and heard a snap in my neck...and then this excruciating pain permeate through my neck and shoulders. How does that happen?? Even larger doses of Tylenol have numbed that pain, but I have a hard time moving my head from side-to-side. At the moment, I feel like that girl from "Sixteen Candles" with the back brace who can't move her neck.My question is...how do parents do this?? This time next year, Nugg will be about 6 months old and, if I have a repeat of this - whether it was a cold or allergies rearing it's ugly head - how am I gonna take care of a baby?? And not get the baby sick?
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