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

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.)