home sick

[redbird]

Sometime yesterday, my sneezing and running nose turned into a sinus headache. I took aspirin and went to bed early, and woke up with the headache again.

More aspirin, shower, dressed, tea. I wasn't sure of whether to go to work, but figured a bit of a walk in the sunshine couldn't hurt.

In the course of that, I realized that if this were a real job that I'd had for a bit, and I felt like this, I'd call in sick; that there isn't much to lose on a three-week proofreading assignment; there's a lot of small print involved in this work; and they seem to be generally impressed with my efficiency and skills. So we went back home after looking at the Spring flowers, and I called my contact to explain that I won't be in today, but will try for tomorrow.

So I will take it easy, do a bit of job-hunting stuff (maybe), and try to remember to go to bed early again.

Comments

sinus remedies...

[red-queen.livejournal.com]

I get *killer* sinus headaches myself, which usually put me in a dark room after scarfing 4 or 5 ibuprofen. Sleeping it off tends to help when nothing else works. Other recourses: warm washcloth (or hot pack wrapped in damp towel) over face, or tea with about 1/3 - 1/2 lemon per cup, plus sugar or honey. If you're sensitive to local green growing things (and Spring keeps trying to spring itself), locally-produced honey from local bees can help desensitize you.

Tiger Balm on the back of the neck also helps me (I generally have a stiff neck when I have a headache, either cause or effect, depending).

Um. Your unappointed hippie Jewish mother will now stifle herself :-}. Hope you feel better!

Re: sinus remedies...

[redbird]

What I seem to have, actually, is a head cold, at least if I can judge by the amount of sneezing and the wastebasket full of tissues.

As such, chicken soup would be welcome--if impractical--but allergy remedies are probably irrelevant.

Aspirin is working for the headache part, fortunately.

Re: sinus remedies...

[(Anonymous)]

Hi, ers! I recognized you from your writing style. Eerie.

What you're describing sounds more like a migraine than a sinus headache. Migraines are more common than people think, and very few people get the most spectacular symptoms (the flashing lights, blind spots, etc.). Actually, according to the neurologists I've been talking to (for work), most headaches are in fact migraines. Go figure.

Anyway, the things you're doing (resting in a dark room, drinking tea with a little sugar or honey, trying to sleep it off) are among the standard migraine treatments.

/Janet (Lafler, not a registered user....)

Re: sinus remedies...

[redbird]

Heya! Good to see you here. (Lise told me you'd asked after me; life is much the same, of late.)