Sick Day

This morning I woke up feeling a little sick to my stomach for no apparent reason.  I really dislike that feeling and it is the one type of being sick that will almost always drive me back into my bed.  Since yesterday was Labor Day, I really felt like I should make every effort to be at school, so I got up and got ready.  I ate my breakfast, hoping it would help settle my stomach which did not happen, took the dog for a walk and then loaded up my stuff into the car.

By this point, I was trying to bargain with my insides saying that if I could just make it until lunch time I could go home.  I started to drive to work, but when I got to the end of the driveway, I was seized by a huge wave of nausea and barely managed to put the car in park and keep my breakfast down.  I knew another wave was coming and I ran back inside to make it to a bathroom before I lost my last bit of control.  Thankfully, I did make it back to where I needed to be before my breakfast made a reappearance.

Needless to say, I called my boss, co-worker and husband (in that order) to let them know I wouldn't be going to work today.  I spent the remainder of the morning sleeping with the puppy as extra warmth.

My nice warm puppy!

Around lunch time, my stomach was aching, but I couldn't tell for sure why.  I thought it was probably hunger and not nausea, so I decided to slowly eat some lunch.  It took me about a hour, but I got my lunch down with no unpleasantness.  After lunch, I worked a bit on two of my big work projects and made some good-sized dents in them.

My husband brought home ribs from a local BBQ place and I was able to eat them with no ill effects, so it will be back to work tomorrow!  After dinner, I worked on my project some more and then checked my work e-mail.  I make it a point to not check e-mail from work at home, but being out today made an exception.  I wanted to make sure if there was anything super important that went on, I would know about it before I went back.  It turns out there is a meeting I am supposed to go to on Friday morning, so I am glad to know about that in advance.

I was supposed to do some cross training today but I thought it would be better to not risk it, even though I am feeling better now.  I spent most of my evening hanging out on the couch with my husband and puppy!