The Longest Day

This has been a LONG week!  I swear, each day seemed to be stretched out into two days.

I think that is pretty normal when you have a regular work week immediately after a long weekend.  We had fall break last week, so I only worked two days last week.  It made this week seem quite long.

However, add in a bit of under the weather yuckiness?  This week was tough!

Early in the week I thought I was coming down with a cold.  I felt achy and sort of feverish, but I plowed on with my work week because the only thing worse than being sick is having to arrange sub plans.  You never see teachers abusing sick days like you do in other professions, because staying home sick only adds to the workload.  Writing sub plans is enough added work that if I'm actually contemplating doing it, I'm practically ready for hospitalization.  So, all week long I dragged myself out of bed, aches and all, and dragged myself into work, always a little off sync and slightly behind schedule.

It turns out, it wasn't a cold.

It was a bladder infection.

It became obvious that I'd have to go to the doctor about mid way through the day today.  I scheduled the appointment, and then slogged through the rest of my classes.  MAN!  I think time slowed down as the afternoon dragged on!  I couldn't wait to get home, pull on some sweats, and curl up on my bed.

The work day did finally end, and my boss even let me duck out early and skip my prep period.  The doctor's office verified the diagnosis, and now I am curled up in said sweats waiting for Bill to bring home some Rubio's for me.

I have a scrip now for antibiotics to get rid of the infection.  Antibiotics are really one of the greatest inventions of mankind!  Think off all the lives saved by antibiotics!  Not that my life is in jeopardy, of course.  But, man!  I was actually happy for the positive test results because it meant that I could take antibiotics to make it go away.  I remember going in to the doctor's office not to long ago hoping that I had strep throat, because then I could take antibiotics and the pain would go away quickly.  At that time I wasn't lucky.  That time it was something viral, so I had to just sweat it out.  No antibiotics.

Good timing with the meds, too.  I have a weekend for them to take effect and I should be feeling just fine when it is time to go back to work next week.