poor me...

i hate being sick. i'm usually pretty healthy. but this spring has been a run of ill health and injury. in the beginning of april, just when it started getting nice out, i got sick. "bronchial spasms" and a lung infection. and i completely lost my voice. i was sick for about 2 or 3 weeks, and was incredibly cranky. i finally kicked the sick, and my hip started hurting. first a little, then crying almost non-stop for 2 days kind of pain. the 3 doctors i saw were stumped. i was drugged up on vicodin so i wouldn't mind the pain, and put on serious anti-inflammatories in the hopes that they might help this undiagnosed ailment. then i was sent for an mri. i started to feel better and gain mobility again just before i got the results of the mri. i had coughed so hard while i was ill, that my abdominal muscles had broken off a piece of my hip bone, which had irritated my hip muscle. ouch. i spent almost a month and a half either feeling under the weather, or in pain, or drugged up. and finally, about 2 weeks ago, i started to feel better.

last weekend, i was exposed to carbon monoxide for about 4 hours. which has apparently triggered more bronchial spasms (the doctor thinks i may have never completely recovered from my illness in april) and i have another lung infection. back on the antibiotic that makes me nauseous, and the steroids that make me crazy.

i sound like what i imagine a dying cow must sound like. about every five minutes. when i attempt to cough out my lungs. i am so attractive right now- sneezing and coughing and cranky. watch. next i'll cough and break my hip bone again. hot. really hot!