If It's Wednesday, It Must Be A Headcold...
My body is a sensitive entity, it's perfectly in sync with my mind, and as soon as I've finished a long project (or teaching trip) my mind gives my body permission to fall apart a little.
That happened yesterday - just in time for the Girl Scouts. The tip off that something was amiss should have been my exhaustion after teaching at Loop. Then yesterday around noon the school called - Hannah had a cold and just felt "bad", so I needed to go pick her up. But still nothing too terribly bad seemed to be happening within my own knitting self.
I had promised a couple of months ago to teach knitting to a Brownie Troop in Kinnelon (Hi Troop 2258!) and the date we set was yesterday afternoon. I had been on buzzing auto pilot for most of the weekend (school auction, teaching at Loop) but I could tell that my body was getting pretty darned PO'd at my mind for keeping it running after my 2 weeks in the south. As a matter of fact, my body was getting so pissy that on the way to Kinnelon my nose went on a full blown protest marathon and started running. It ran throughout the lesson (and I'm hoping to heaven I didn't infect any of the groovy girls I taught...) and continued to run until I got home. Then it sprinted for a bit, then it started running again and ran all night.
Not liking to run alone, it brought along my throat (sore), by joints (achy) and my head (exploding) for the ride.
I took my standby, Alka Seltzer Night Time Cold, but this runny-nose-cold-thing would NOT be calmed and I was up and down all night. I could tell I was sick when I got up because I had to wade through a foot of tissues I'd tossed onto the floor after using them in my sleep!
So today I tackle calendar stuff - a full day of editing - and Hannah is home sick, too. Rest, indeed.
The good news - the GREAT news - is that whether it's the Chinese herbs or the meds I've been taking from my doc, my breathing is phenemonally better. Even with the head cold I can inhale and - more importantly - exhale easier than I've been able to in months. I've been on the Chinese Herbs for 1-1/2 weeks now, and pretty much since a few days after I started taking them I sensed a strong shift in my lung capacity. I'm supposed to continue with them for another 2-1/2 months, so we'll see where I am in early June!
That happened yesterday - just in time for the Girl Scouts. The tip off that something was amiss should have been my exhaustion after teaching at Loop. Then yesterday around noon the school called - Hannah had a cold and just felt "bad", so I needed to go pick her up. But still nothing too terribly bad seemed to be happening within my own knitting self.
I had promised a couple of months ago to teach knitting to a Brownie Troop in Kinnelon (Hi Troop 2258!) and the date we set was yesterday afternoon. I had been on buzzing auto pilot for most of the weekend (school auction, teaching at Loop) but I could tell that my body was getting pretty darned PO'd at my mind for keeping it running after my 2 weeks in the south. As a matter of fact, my body was getting so pissy that on the way to Kinnelon my nose went on a full blown protest marathon and started running. It ran throughout the lesson (and I'm hoping to heaven I didn't infect any of the groovy girls I taught...) and continued to run until I got home. Then it sprinted for a bit, then it started running again and ran all night.
Not liking to run alone, it brought along my throat (sore), by joints (achy) and my head (exploding) for the ride.
I took my standby, Alka Seltzer Night Time Cold, but this runny-nose-cold-thing would NOT be calmed and I was up and down all night. I could tell I was sick when I got up because I had to wade through a foot of tissues I'd tossed onto the floor after using them in my sleep!
So today I tackle calendar stuff - a full day of editing - and Hannah is home sick, too. Rest, indeed.
The good news - the GREAT news - is that whether it's the Chinese herbs or the meds I've been taking from my doc, my breathing is phenemonally better. Even with the head cold I can inhale and - more importantly - exhale easier than I've been able to in months. I've been on the Chinese Herbs for 1-1/2 weeks now, and pretty much since a few days after I started taking them I sensed a strong shift in my lung capacity. I'm supposed to continue with them for another 2-1/2 months, so we'll see where I am in early June!
posted by Annie at
Wednesday, March 22, 2006
5 Comments:
Annie...
could you email me the names of the chinese herbs you are taking?? I have a friend who was just diagnosed with the same thing...and he needs to get better!!
woohoo! go chinese herbs! breathing is very under-rated, lol. my fiance is thinking about quitting smoking, so i'm trying to encourage him as much as i can. and we're using that fact as a "bribe" for the boys' good behavior, lol.
i had sent you an email about the permission letter, but i never heard back. are you editing my pattern, or is drew?
Hi Annie
Sorry to hear that you are not feeling well. If I may offer I have used Airborne when traveling on planes before and after the trip and I have gotten great results. I am the type that gets colds 3 or 4 times a year along with sinus infections. I take airborne and at the first sign of a cold and get lot of rest and am in pretty good shape. Just thought I share with you and hope that you get the same results that I have. That way you can go on creating those fab knit garments unbothered. Fell better.
Lawrence
Great description of being run over by a cold! I would also like the name of the Chinese herbs; have had asthma for over 30 years and am still learning from it. Be well.
hi annie! it is that post-tech-week collapse that you trained your body into all those years ago!!! i go through it every month!look forward to seeing you this summer
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