I've had a cold for the last two weeks and over the last two days it's gotten really bad. I've been feeling pretty sorry for myself. Up all night coughing for two nights! Coughing so hard I've pulled a stomach muscle and thrown up!
After throwing up at 2 am, I finally resigned myself to calling in to work the next day. I went to the doctor and was told to stay home one more day and not to be outside where the cold air can trigger bronchiospasms. Then I got three different prescriptions! Yikes.
Well the combination of rest and meds is already helping. I didn't realize that Vicodin was used for coughs, but it works better than any cough medicine I've ever taken! I've gone about four hours now without coughing!! It's starting back up again now, but it's just about time to take another.
It's interesting to try to balance the amount of stuff I do with taking care of myself. I have a very hard time calling in to work. Luckily, my doctor is one of my employers. So when she says to stay home and that I can't go outside, even to walk her dog, I guess I'd better take it seriously. But now that I'm pregnant, I have to remind myself that to take care of her, I HAVE to take care of me. And I have to remind myself that this will be true for the rest of my life.
So to any moms out there reading this, whether your children are younger or older, remember to take some moments to take care of you. It's easy enough to forget to do this before you have kids! I'm currently finding out how much harder it is as a mother.
