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Today I stayed home due to a major migraine.

I called into work to tell them I won’t be in and then I crawled back into my blanket cocoon and slept the entire day away.

I ended up crawling back out of bed around 2 in teh afternoon and was relieved to have rid the migraine. Well it was almost gone, but it was managable and it wasn’t that bad. More like a disconfort instead of the massive pain that it was.

I had to get some things done today, so I started on teh laundry.

I went and put a buck into the washer and then came back into the apartment to get the laundry into the basket.

Well, I went to pick up the laundry basket and it felt like I was shot in the back. Well more like the hip area.

The pain in my lower back area was so intense that I could barly stand up straight or bend over to pick anything up.

Thankfully I have a few Advil in my backpack for work, but they don’t seem to be helping a whole lot at the moment.

Looks like it’s time to pull out the heating pad.

FML!

That LOL Cat’s Pick is just perfect for this post.

I stayed home from work today. I am in no condition to do anything today. I was just barley able to walk next door to go pick up some flu medicine. Every move I made hurt like hell. Every joint in my body aches.

The nose is starting to run like crazy now, so my waste basket is full of TP and overflowing. Throat is still very sore and my chest is also still congested. And yet the fever is still making me burn up and then have the chills. The constant change between the chills and the burning up is already past the point of annoying.

The cats are getting pissed off at me because I keep moving around on the bed and have to keep getting them to move when I keep going under the covers and removing the covers. The aches also have me moving around a lot and they keep getting a foot in the face, or  a back rolling over on them.

Buddy will occasionally cuddle up behind me and give me a back and neck massage, he a good kitty. Knows when to show pity for me. Or maybe it’s his way of trying to get me out of bed to go fill their dinner bowels.

What really sucks about having to lay in bed all day is that there is absolutely fuck all on the TV. There is nothing to watch, nothing interesting that is. I rented an On Demand Movie, “HANCOCK” just to have SOMETHING to watch. Even though I have already seen it.

This Robitussin: Cough & Cold (Extra Strength) stuff is doing very little. It just tastes like shit and causes my GERD to flare up. So I had to also pick up something for that too.

It’s to bad that I’m feeling so crappy, or I would be enjoying a few cold beers right about now. I’m not scheduled to work tomorrow, so that’s going to be great for an extra day to recover. 

Hopefully by Monday, this will all have passed, and find out that Overtime is allowed again at work. But mostly I hope that I feel better.

I’ve got to go back to bed. The longer I sit up, the shittier I feel.

TTFN

All day long I’ve been trying to do the whole ‘mind over matter’ thing but as the day went on, the worst I felt and in the end, it was all futile.

I ache all over, I have a fever, my throat is sore, and my chest is congested.

Yup, I have the flu.

All week at work there were people sick and coughing all over the place. Some trying to be hygienic and others not.

I believed I emptied the hand sanitizer on the wall beside the desk I usually sit by, plus I went through two small bottles of anti-bacterial hand wash. I would also wipe the stuff on my workstation, mouse, and keyboard.

I tried to keep my distance from all of the infected, but I eventually succumbed to the bug that was making it’s way through the production floor.

I am sick, and from the way I’m feeling at the moment, I don’t think I’ll be going into work in the morning. 

My throat is literally stripped and raw as if I had a wire brush scrubbing  the inside of it. Then there is the body pains and aches that feel like I have just had the shit kicked out of me, or as Dragon Lady would say, “I feel like hammered poo.” I’m burning up with a fever and feel like shit.

I hope I wake up and it’s gone, but that’s probably not really going to happen.

That’s pretty much all that came out for sound when I tried to say Good Morning to my cats when I got up this morning.

When I got up, my chest and throat was burning as it it were on fire or I swallowed something boiling hot.

When I went to speak, nothing came out as far as audible words would be considered. Just a few squeaks and pops, followed by a bit of wheezes.

I slept very well last night and apparently that may have not been such a good thing because my GERD obviously acted up and I didn’t wake up to take the medication to stop it from burning out my esophagus.

It seems that I slept so well that the burning screwed up my throat and causing my vocal thingy to get a little corroded and inflamed making talking something pretty much impossible.

I’m not feeling sick. Just a bit sore in the chest and throat. It’s just that I can barely speak. No biggie really. But the thing is, my job requires me to actually talk to people and that’s going to be impossible to do at the moment.

So I called my drive and ended having to TXT message them because she couldn’t make out what I was trying to say. She had a pretty good idea what I was trying to do but not what I was saying. She acknowledged that she would let work know the reason I wasn’t going in today, but I still called in and left a message of Squeaks, pops, and wheezes anyway.

If you not sure what GERD is look it up here. I never say it’s like Heart Burn, because heart burn has nothing on the pain I get from this. It’s actually gross when you wake up and have a wet pillow sometimes. I’m not going to get into gross details, but, when it really acts up, it a real bitch to deal with. It causes chest pains that feel like heart attacks because of the muscles in that area being effected from the inflamed esophagus, burning voice box and throat, and the nausea.

I could go on and on, but I put the link there in case you wanna learn more, without me having to rewrite the medical book.

Anyway, after I was done on the phone, I took the pills and went back to sleep for a few hours just so I wouldn’t have to be awake while the guts were burning.

It’s now Noon, and I can actually say words now instead of pops, and squeaks. My throat is still very raw and sore, and it’s causing me to cough a lot because of the itchy tickling in my throat.

Now if I could just figure out what the hell caused it to flare up like that, I could probably prevent it from happening again.

The exam went well, I think. I didn’t do bad, but I don’t know that for sure. However, the instructor mentioned that there was one person that didn’t get any questions correct, and this is even when one of the questions was actually given an answer from the instructor. They even got a freebie question wrong. LOL

Advancing up the ladder is going to be so fucking easy! HA! HA! HA! HAAAA!

We were also cheating off each other and using our notes and the computers to get the answers too.

On a not so lighter side. I lost my drive. She has another job. SHIT! Now I’m going to have to find another sucker! err… I mean driver.

We were in a classroom today finally. It was hot and stuffy. Just cant seem to find a happy medium. They’re doing renovations in the place and the air system is not fully hooked up so it’s pretty sucky at the moment.

I think the chairs in there are responsible for my back being in so much pain right now. I tried to lay flat on my back while watching TV just awhile ago, and it actually hurts more to do that. I would go get some ibuprofen next door but the money situation is not going to allow for that, so I’ll have to put up with the pain I guess. It is fucking painful right now too, which is why it sucks so bad to not have the money to buy pain killers.

Well, I’m going to go find my heating pad.

Yesterday morning I woke up to a massive Migraine headache, it didn’t seem to want to go away till after suppertime.

It hurt like hell too. the worst head ache I have ever had, at least until this morning.

Around 2am I woke up with pain shooting down the back of my head down my neck, and my temples felt like they were in a vice. No matter how much cradling in my arms I did or packing the pillows around my head I did, it was futile.

I would drift in and out of sleep because I was awaken by the pain and then fall asleep from exhaustion and wake up again, and so on. A vicious cycle went on until it was time to get up for work.

There was no way I could go in to work in this condition. I even had to turn off my computer because the fan, although not a loud one, was actually too loud. The windows were blacked out because it was still dark outside, thankfully. But that was short lived later in the day, so I wrapped myself in blankets and pillows.

If that wasn’t enough, the grounds people decided it was a good time to mow the lawn. Mow by my window OVER AND OVER AND OVER again! Either they knew I was in major pain from the migraine, or the blade on that mower was so dull, they had to make multiple passes.

So here it is now just after 4pm, the headache is finally gone, I lost a days pay and now I’m in a pissy mood for it.

Must be the weather huh?

How was your day?

Even though I haven’t actually moved out of Canada, it sure felt like it the other day.

There were five cooks on the line at work and four of the five were Chinese. I felt so Alienated. They were talking away and not one English word was spoken. I just continued to work at my job and just kept saying to myself, “Lets get this day over with.”

Then later on four of the five cooks decided to share dinner and eat. I was not one of them, I was not even asked or offered. Nice huh?

I just continued to work away. I felt like I was no longer in my own country. Maybe I should move back to Canada and get a better job. A better one that I won’t feel so used.

It seems like as long as I don’t speak Chinenglish I’m not any use. I say this because, while I work away in pain from my tennis elbow and do my job despite of the pain, the Chinese guys get pampered.

I’m not saying they get catered to, but for example; Here I am, in a position that causes me great pain. Pain from lifting and twisting my arms causing the Tennis Elbow to get inflamed and cause some pretty nasty pain. Then there is this NEW Chinese cook that was hired on recently to work the Graveyard Shift with the rest of us. This NEW Chinese cook was always getting very sleepy halfway though his shift. He would go on about how hard it was for him to stay awake and how sleepy he was.

Some of you may already know that I wanted to be placed on the Garde Manger position for several reasons, mainly the one that would involve me not being in so much pain because there’s not a lot of things that would involve lifting and twisting of the arms, the others are because it’s something I would actually enjoy, and think I would be very good at.

Well, didn’t they go and move MR. Sleepy Chinese Cook to that position because he was always too sleepy to work the Line at night. It wasn’t because he was bad at working the line because he was the first one that did pretty good for his first few days there. That really got to me and I immediately started a job hunting campaign. Unfortunately, it’s not going very well. But I still have my fingers crossed.

So I figure if I get another job, I’ll be back in Canada, have better hours, have a life again, and get back to my side projects, and also start posting them fun games again.

Yup, I’ve been thinking about doing the ‘Friday Night Flip Off’ again, but with a new name, and also the ‘WTF Is That?’ game. The only thing that’s keeping me from them is the current job.

I wish I could just win the Lottery and get this all over with. I really, really do!

HOLY COW!

I was in pain all frigging night from this damn Tennis Elbow.

It felt like my arms were about to fall off. The pain was very unbearable at some points that I had to just stop what I was doing and cross my arms.

I could actually feel my heart beating in them and with every beat there was the sharp pain.

This is just another reason why I need another line of work, this pain gets worse each day that I work at my present job. I don’t know what I’ll do if I don’t get this new job, I really don’t.

There were times last night that I just wanted to walk out of there and come home. The pain was that intense.

I popped about 6 ibuprofen in the 8 hour shift that I worked and they really didn’t help, well they probably did by reducing the pain from what it would be if I didn’t take them, but the pain was still strong.

Now that I’m home the pain is going away, THANK GOD!

Having really bad tennis elbow and doing a job that involves a lot of lifting and twisting of the arms is not the greatest combination in the world. It gets fucking painful!