I think that was the longest unscheduled break I’ve taken from blogging since I started this thing. This is also the sickest that I’ve ever been (if you ignore those first seven months of each pregnancy!), and it took a raging fever that only dropped below 104 with three different forms of medicine to get me to stop-it-already and just lay down and be sick. Actually, the laying down part was easy – it was the standing up part that was much harder.
I’m under the 101 mark and feel remarkably cooler for the first time since late Sunday night. What a furnace I’ve been. M’s been dealing with his own stresses at work and juggling the kids and house, so today I called him and said I’d pick up E at school and bring her home. Ten blocks there, ten blocks back. Carpool line, minimal effort. It still felt like a monumental effort, and I can’t believe how much it took out of me. But I did it, and I think I’m on the upward swing. I certainly hope so.
This is the first time I’ve sat down at our new computer. The new keyboard feels foreign, but nice. I already like it better than the one I use at work. I’m excited to share the photos from the garden last weekend, and other things we’ve got going on. But slowly. I’m working on that slowly part.
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Interesting thing I learned in a phone conversation with my doctor late last night. She asked what I had been eating all day. Not much – mostly fruits and vegetables that I thought would be good and help with hydration. She said I needed starches and high fat when battling a fever. The body is doing so much work that it needs those things to fuel it. Hospitalized patients that develop a fever are given twice the food through feeding tubes to combat the temps. I ate a large bowl of granola with whole milk and forty-five minutes later felt a new being, even with a 104.5 degree fever. Tuck that away for future use. Hydration is good, fuel is better.
