Sha Naa Naa » health http://www.marteki.com The life and times of Naa Marteki Reed Mon, 31 May 2010 12:00:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Good Riddance, February. Hello, March. http://www.marteki.com/2009/03/04/good-riddance-february-hello-march/ http://www.marteki.com/2009/03/04/good-riddance-february-hello-march/#comments Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:34:58 +0000 Marteki http://www.marteki.com/?p=389 It’s been a little more than 4 weeks since my last blog post. Want to know what have I been doing with myself?

Well, mostly I’ve been sick:

  • Week One: Hey there, Sunday! Hey there, sore throat and coughing! I guess I caught a cold. Ah well, I’ll be fine.
  • Week Two: Coughing, coughing, and more coughing. I cough so much that I can’t go to sleep. I cough so hard that I throw up — on multiple occasions. My sinuses feel like my face has been hit repeatedly with a baseball bat. I’m exhausted. On Thursday, I stumble into the closest Urgent Care Center and walk out with a diagnosis of a sinus infection and a prescription for two weeks’ worth of antibiotics. (For the medicos in the audience, 875mg of Augmentin twice a day. That’s co-amoxiclav to the Brits and Canucks.)
  • Week Three: Cough, cough, cough. Also, antibiotics can have some nasty side-effects. And that’s all you need to know about that.
  • Week Four: I will never, ever, ever stop coughing. And now I’m sneezing? Why, Lord, why???
  • Week Five: Cough, cough, co — hey, it stopped. WEDNESDAY IS A HAPPY DAY.

I also added a feature to this blog that should send all posts to Twitter and compile my Twitter tweets as a daily post. Enjoy.

And now, off to finish my statistics homework. The first quarter of grad school ends in two weeks…

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  • I failed at everyday blogging. I think I’ll still try for “much more frequently than previously” blogging.
  • I succeeded in fixing my church’s internet.
  • I failed at not getting sick during tax season. Too many sick people handling my ballpoint pens. So now my throat is raw, yet coated in mucus. I cough when I want to  laugh and I cough when I want to cry and I cough for no reason at all, except for when I sneeze instead. And my slowly filling sinuses are foretelling a world of hurt and headache for tomorrow.
  • I succeeded at pestering various UPenn officials into approving and officially posting the completion of my undergrad degree. My transcript even says that it’s as of “12-17-08″.
  • I failed at finishing the schoolwork and freelance work that I hoped to get done today.
  • I succeeded at starting the two hundred sit-ups program, despite my tendency to cough more violently when lying horizontal. Week 1, Day 1 results: 15+18+10+10+20 (column 3).
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    Every time I get it, I have a different set of symptoms: sometimes I’m stuffy and sneezing, sometimes I’m hacking and coughing, sometimes I’m shaking and throwing up. The one constant symptom is deep and utterly draining exhaustion.

    Today was spent mostly in bed and mostly asleep, but I’m still so tired. I’m up now, trying to get something constructive done before I go back to bed.

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