But I’m going to do my best to overcome it and do something
positive.
I’ve been stuck in a funk because I’ve been sick. A lot.
I’ve always considered myself to be a pretty healthy person.
I got maybe two or three minor colds a year… the occasional stomach virus. The
usual. No big deal. I get migraines, but those are knocked out by injectable Imitrex
quickly.
I don’t know if it’s because my kid now shares all of his
germs from daycare or what, but this winter has been brutal. I got sick two
weeks before leaving for Key West in late November/early December. Then I got
sick again a few days before leaving for Key West. On the plane, I thought my
head was going to explode, and I couldn’t hear for two days after we arrived.
Then I came down with the flu on January 2nd. It
was like I got hit by a bus. I’m one of those people who rarely miss work due to
illness… it’s something I pride myself on. Well, I missed nearly an entire
week. I tried working from home and got a few hours in here and there. What I
should have done was not attempt to do anything and just slept to get better.
Three weeks later I wasn’t feeling much better, so I went back to the doctor. I
ended up with a steroid injection in the ass, a breathing treatment, and a
hefty dose of antibiotics. That finally seemed to knock the remnants of that
crud out.
At the beginning of February, I ended up with either food
poisoning or a stomach virus. Another day of work missed. Things weren’t right
with my digestive tract for probably a week. It was not fun. Then we went to
Arizona and I seemed to have recovered from everything! Then I came home. Last
weekend I got to hang out with a bunch of girlfriends for our annual Galentines
Day celebration. This time, at Turnbridge Point. The company and food was
spectacular. And then I started getting stuffy and sore throaty again. Markface
was also congested, so I am thinking that he was the vector of my illness yet
again.
Last week before I started feeling craptacular again, my
acupuncturist mentioned that she was participating in
the Food Stamp Challenge for Talbot County.
My plan is/was to give it a go. I was trying to get Jay on
board with doing it too, but he said that he knew too many people that take
advantage of the system. Including of course, members of his family (although
to my knowledge this is no longer the case). I may have reported aforementioned
person to the fraud office when they posted on Facebook that they could get
people half price food. ;-)
Fraud notwithstanding, I can’t imagine having to feed my
family for $33 per person per week. So my plan is to do it for as many meals as
possible. The challenge starts this Sunday, on March 6th.
I’m still trying to come up with my budget for the week, as
ours will be a bit convoluted since Jay is gone 2 days of the challenge and
will mostly just be eating my challenge dinners, since he doesn’t want to
participate.
Fingers crossed that I will find the time and energy to blog about my experience. If I can finally stop being sick, I'm sure that will help a lot!
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