Day 22: I'm Sick!

Well I was out for the count all day yesterday. Was able to get up and go to the 1st class, but couldn't hold on long. Went to brunch and think that's how I messed up. Ended up cancelling my private boxing and Spanish classes and hardly slept.

So that itchy throat - I took a Sudafed KNOWING I would feel worse, Because I always do. And my sister said the same thing. She always feels worse. But for me, I didn't want to cough around in Colombia and I had no other real symptoms. Well then. I Took it and woke up with a headache and congested - although Sudafed is supposed to clear those symptoms and I didn't have them to begin with.

Anyways, drank cold water since I wanted to cough after talking a bit. Went for brunch at

Ojala and had a mimosa (since they didn't have the one with fruit - no worries, I wasn't eating the fruit this time). And by the time I got back, a migraine ensued. Never in my life had I had a headache like that except when I had COVID. Since I woke up with some symptoms, I did take my ER COVID test which was negative in the morning. SO I took Aleve and laid down. An hour or two later, no change so took another reminding myself that I had already taken acetaminophen last night and now a bit of alcohol. AN hour later, my head felt like a batting cage! I was almost to tears, this was worse than COVID headache so I took the 800 mg Ibuprofen that I was told NOT to take during COVID, but I did and it cleared me up 90% and could function. Yeah yesterday, it helped for 2-3 hours and then came on again, so I took another. No changes. I was in bad shape.

This morning around midnight I felt a little better. So taking it easy. Changed paragliding to next week, meetings for business endeavors until next weekend and no boxing. Just sleeping mostly and studying.

So it'll be a boring 48 hours for me, but I need to rest to get strength back for next week. Not sure if the migraines are from alcohol, caffeine (I did have a soda and it started up again), mixture of meds or what. Now I am just a little congested with sneezing.