La La Land
I thought the cold was done. Kaput. Finito. I was misinformed. I woke up this morning and I was – to quote Will Farrell – “a cotton-headed ninny muggins.” I was in freaking La La Land. Eyes, ears, balance? Blurry, plugged, OFF. And I’m not sure, but I might have had a seizure this week. Possibly two. The second one could just have been because I was downwind of the Mr. Sub shop, or at least that’s what I’m telling myself.
What I think I actually had was an olfactory (smell) hallucination due to a migraine. I was sitting at the desk typety-typing along with a titch of a headache (brought on by a stray reflection in the stainless steel sink when I was rinsing my lunch dishes) when suddenly I smelled burning wire. I turned to David who was working across the room at his desk and said “Did you smell that?” He said, “Smell what?” Then I felt like my head was in a bit of a vice and my brain kind of went whoomp whoomp for a sec and I thought it might be best if I sat on the floor for a bit. So I did. It’s amazing how quickly David can move – really quite impressive – like ZIP-BOOM fast! And then after a couple of minutes it was done. Olfactory hallucinations, I was pleased to read soon thereafter, can in fact be associated with migraines. YAY – it’s not necessarily a seizure!!! If it happens again I’m seeing my Doc, but until then I’m not worrying too much.
I swear that I’m not being lackadaisical about this – my body is just so freaking bizarre and sensitive to weird-ass crap that I really only pay attention now when I absolutely have to. I wonder if the script-writers for House are looking for any new symptoms – I could give ’em a run for their money for sure.
When a person is sick they shouldn’t exercise, they’re supposed to rest up. But when I don’t exercise I find it hard to sleep at night and then I tend to just get sicker. Because I know this about myself, I might exercise sooner than I should for fear of the Cold Catch-22 happening. Which is probably why today I felt like a zombie and did next to nothing. My big accomplishment was diving under our deck to get the stand for our off-set patio umbrella so that I could doze on our outdoor sofa in relative shade. I had to sleep for a whole hour to get over the excitement of it all.
It’s the long weekend in May and I refuse to be sick for the whole weekend. Je refuse!! I will get a good night’s sleep tonight and arise tomorrow a new woman! A woman with purpose. A woman with verve!! And I shall eat pancakes!!! I need to chest bump something.
