It's a virus

yeah it's probably a virus.  i went to nursing school.  i know that.  but i'm begging you doc, make it better!!!  his best piece of advice was to give it time to go away.  WTF is that???  waste of time, that's what.

let's back up a bit.  cass woke up thanksgiving morning with goop in her eye. it went back and forth, eye to eye, for about two weeks and then she woke up one morning with both eyes all goopy.  oh i forgot about the raging fever that hit in the middle of the night and continued for five days.  so we went to the doctor and he said the drainage from her eyes was part of the cold and that it wasn't conjunctivitis.  the next morning she woke up with her eyes sealed shut and that happened for three days.  not to mention the ridiculous amount of snot that came out of her nose.  poor thing couldn't sleep through the night which meant neither of us did either.  

needless to say, i got sick a few days later and it has leveled me.  i get pretty sick sometimes, but i rarely say i have to go to bed.  but i've said that every day of this thing and spent the past weekend on the couch.  have i mentioned there are two days til christmas?  not done with shopping (not gonna happen) or wrapping (may not happen).  we're hosting the in-laws christmas day (who knows if this will happen) and traveling to NY on Friday (this will happen).  too much.  so i went to the doctor after my mom "suggested" it to me about 50 times and it was pretty much a waste...except i talked him in to giving me a prescription for antibiotics...ya know, just in case it's not a f*$#ing virus.

then i went and got a new cold medicin...this is my third.  we'll see how it works.  the skin on my nose has peeled off twice already from blowing it so much.  we've gone through so many tissues i think i'm contributing to environmental collapse.  

wish me luck.

oh and happy holidays!