shazza211
My life is complete
Member since 9/07 1580 total posts
Name:
Sharon
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Not the day I planned on (long vent)
DS had a Mother's Day Tea at his school preschool today so I took the day off from work to attend. The Tea wasn't until 2:00 in the afternoon, so I booked a morning massage that DH had given me a gift certificate for last Valentine's Day. At 7.5 months preggers I was really looking forward to this massage. Plus, I've been sleeping terrible so I was hoping this would help me relax. We also have a wedding tomorrow and a busy weekend in general, and a ton of birthday parties over the next few weekends, so I was planning on getting a lot of cleaning done along with other necessary errands.
On my way to the massage, I get a call from DS school that he's coughing up a storm, and has a low grade fever of 99 so could I please come there and drop off a cough suppressant. The secretary says he does not want to miss the Tea so I should just drop off the meds and leave and return at 2:00. DS has been suffering from allergies and nothing really seems to help much so I tell the secretary that I'll drop the cough syrup off but in my experience it does not help much, and if he's not feeling well than I'll just take him home. She repeats how much he doesn't want me to miss the Tea because he gets to sing to me and have snacks etc...and the fever is so low that it's nothing that warrants him going home, but strongly encourages me to bring by the cough syrup. DS's school is almost a half an hour from where I live because we chose one close to my job.
I told her I'll be there right after my appointment because if I cancelled the appointment I would have forfeited my gift certificate for such short notice. Even though I knew that dropping off this Zarbees cough syrup wasn't going to help DS, and my pediatrician told me that 99 doesn't really constitute a fever, I felt guilty that I was not going up to the school right away to check on him. My pediatrician only recommends Zarbees for his coughing and a vaporizer at night. I do give him Benadryl to dry up the post nasal drip that causes the coughing but even that doesn't seem to do much.
So now I'm at the massage place on the table 15 minutes into the massage and I start to feel very nauseous, breakout in a cold sweat, and even though I'm lying down I feel like I'm about to pass out. I sit up and ask the masseuse to please get me some water. I continue to feel very shaky and my ears start to feel like their clogging. These are all the typical symptoms I get before I blackout. I told the masseuse I'm sorry but I think I have to stop the massage. The whole time I was lying on the table the little one was bouncing around like crazy so I knew he seemed to be o.k. even though I was not sure what the heck was happening to me. It took me another 15 minutes to feel well enough to stand up and get dressed but I still felt very shaky. I sat in my car for a little while longer till I was sure I was able to drive and drove home to get DS's cough syrup. I almost passed out at work a few weeks ago and it turned out that I had a UTI and was seriously dehydrated. The UTI didn't clear up completely the first time so I had to take 2 rounds of antibiotics. I've been trying to be good about my water/fluid intake but I'm thinking perhaps I was dehydrated again.
In the end, I dropped off the Zarbees...DS was out cold in the nap room fever free, and his teacher, who is also the owner of the school, told me that I could give him the meds when I returned for the Tea at 2 because she needs a signed Dr.'s note that she can give any meds. So I drove all the way there feeling less than fabulous for no reason and now had a little over an hour to kill before I returned for the Tea. I sucked it up, ran some errands, and returned at 2 for the Tea. As the day went on I went back to feeling normal but exhausted. This was not the way I planned to spend this beautiful day off but I'm glad to be feeling normal again.
And then as an added bonus to my day, DH decides to go to happy hour after work which, probably because I'm hormonal, pissed me off. He comes home with a nice buzz and decides to continue his happy hour at home and spills a beer all over the table that has the cards and gifts I bought today while running my errands during my time kill between the medicine run and the Tea...cards ruined and gifts reeking of beer...freakin fabulous
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Maybe-Baybe
My Sunshine
Member since 7/12 3415 total posts
Name:
My only Sunshine
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Re: Not the day I planned on (long vent)
Oh my gosh, what a terrible day. I didn't have such a great one myself. Tomorrow can only be better, right? 
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