Don’t ever take breathing for granted
August 14, 2005 – 10:22 pmIf there’s one thing I hate more than being sick it’s….
… nevermind. I can’t think of anything. I especially hate illnesses that affect my breathing or eating. Actually, anything that affects those two things is about as bad as it gets for me.
When I had my wisdom teeth removed, eating went from something I did when I was hungry, to something I did when I felt like I could handle all the hassle I had to go through. Having a limited menu of drinkable foods is NOT FUN. Not to mention keeping those gigantic new holes you have in your mouth free of debris. Mine acted like food magnets. But that’s another story altogether.
Anyhow, I’m developing some sort of sickness as I type this. My throat is threatening to hurt with each swallow. My sinuses are sending up signal flares. My skin aches. I feel like my head has a balloon in it that’s every so slowly filling up.
When I lay in bed, the mucus pools on one side of my head, so I strategically angle myself to let it drain partially into the other side so that it evens out. When you have something wrong with you on the outside, you can poke it or rub it or put ice/heat on it. But when it’s inside your head there isn’t shit you can do about it and that’s pretty frustrating.
I hate having to deal with people when I’m sick. I hate that I mumble because I don’t really feel like talking, then I have to repeat myself because I mumbled it the first time. I hate coughing and sneezing and spreading the plague to perfectly innocent healthy people. So it is with a heavy heart that I will not be calling out of work. My job as a network technician is to go to a client’s home or business and fix the shit that they break, and the vast majority of our clients are wealthy snobbish types that really don’t appreciate some lower class bum coughing all over their three story coastal villas.
However, I actually enjoy my job, and I earn a decent hourly wage so each hour that I miss just hurts me to think about. So I’ll be going in and spreading my plague to all of them.
