At Least It's Not Ebola

Are you there World? It's me, Sarah.  That's right friends, I'm back!  Kind of.  I apologize for my disappearance last week and am hopefully back in action.  As I mentioned on Tuesday I had started coughing Monday night and by 2pm the next day it felt like I was swallowing shards of broken glass.  I was terrified it was strep throat and then thankful that it was just the plague a virus, but as I end day 6 still sounding like a frog with a hacking cough, I kind of wish it had been strep because I would have gotten antibiotics that kick in over 24-36 hours.  But no, after a steady stream of over the counter meds including Tylenol cold & flu, NyQuil, Buckleys and NeoCitron, I finally went to the doctor this morning for some relief.  Hopefully the cough syrup with codeine helps and we will be able to sleep tonight.  Decent shut eye has been MIA since my coughing is the worst when laying down.  And basically what all this boils down to is...
I didn't drink this weekend.  
And sadly I can't remember the last time I could say that so maybe this is a good thing?  I will be making this up though when the Mr. and I head on vacation November 6th!  We are meeting my sister B and her fiancé in Las Vegas for a few days and then we're driving to Palm Springs for the rest of our vacay.  I am beyond excited and thankful that I got sick now and not while we are away.
But thankfully it's not Ebola.  Too soon?  Really though, that would suck.
I have also failed miserably at #Blogtober14 but such is life.  I may join in once or twice this week, I haven't really planned any posts this week so let's be honest, it's quite likely.  I also haven't made a weekly meal plan... oy epic failure!  We went grocery shopping on Friday night but I was kind of just going through the motions, feeling totally out of it and had no energy.  So I'm not exactly sure what we have in the fridge so it's going to be a play it by ear kind of week.  My hubby has been really good though and has done a lot of the cooking so I can rest.
I took Milo for a walk in the pouring rain on Saturday.  Probably not the smartest idea but it felt so good to get out in the fresh air, even if it was pissing rain.  And our little Milo-man loves walking in the rain.  He hates going out to pee when it's raining but if he gets to go for a walk, he's all for it.  I really want to get him a rain coat though because he also loves going through all the puddles and gets filthy.  

The rest of the weekend was pretty quiet and I had a lot of time for Netflix Bingeing (seriously Netflix, I would be the perfect #StreamTeam member so call me please!!).  I also had both fur babies constantly underfoot and Milo even cuddled up to me which I obviously caught on camera.

See??  He's almost in my lap!

Jinx is a big night-time cuddler

Hopefully some of the above made sense and I'm also hoping that these meds I was prescribed mean I will wake up and be able to function well enough to make it to the office.   Whether I get any work done or not is another matter, showing up is half the battle right? Any tips for evicting a cough beast from my chest??  All healing vibes welcomed!

Linking up with Bella and Lisa for the Weekend Recap, Biana, Monday Morning Gossip and Meg's Monday Mingle! 

   

 

Oil of Oregano: Devil Juice

As usual I was bummed to wake up on Monday morning but because of the madness that is my work life right now I figured it would pass in a blur... Until I started feeling like crap right before lunch.  It just kind of hit me like a wall, headache, sore throat, achy body... All I wanted to do was crawl into bed and knock myself out with some NyQuil, but that wasn't happening.  So I worked until 6pm (ugh) and then as soon as I got home I let hubby do it.  I let him torture me.  Torture as in putting 3 drops of oil of oregano under my tongue.  He won't let me swallow for at least 30 seconds (minds out of the gutter ladies!) and then I still can't drink for like 5 minutes.  If you haven't tried it, let me tell you that this shit is disgusting.  DISGUSTING!  I gag every time.  But his grandparents swear by it and they just celebrated their 70th anniversary so I feel like I can't really go wrong here.

Devil juice (aka oil of oregano)

I woke up this morning feeling a bit better and the best part? No sore throat. Fever is gone too but I still have a stuffed nose but that's ok, a cold I can deal with.  

They always seem to know when you need a little love the most

Does anyone else have any good cold and flu remedies?  There is no chance of a sick day in my near future so I need to kick this thing in the ass!

Happy Tuesday friends!