whooping cough

someone at work got the whooping cough.  uh oh!  i am going to assume i was not exposed.

but i feel like crapiola!  i've had a headache since friday.  i slept most of sunday.  today i felt crappy in the morning and even contemplated not going to work. here is how my day has been:

7:05 AM alarm goes off
7:20ish get out of bed
8:06 leave for work
8:24 arrive at work, go inside.
12:30 leave work and head home
12:48 get in bed and fall asleep
2:05 wake up and leave for the hospital
2:48 after treatment and visit with the nurse, leave hospital.  only 5 more to go!!
3:12 eat voodoo donuts at leslie's!
3:30 go home and get in bed, fall asleep
5:30 wake up for dinner
6:46 vote on the family's lego creations and eat otter pops.

ugh, still have a headache.  met with the nurse today to talk about it.  i had mentioned it to the techs and they said to talk to the nurse.  she asked if i wanted to talk to the doctor, i told them all how he thinks i am stressed.  they laughed.  we'll see what he says tomorrow.  i have a sore throat, too.

but i've got only 5 more to go!  the one tech who had told me that she was pretty sure i would lose my hair came back from her vacation.  she was gone all last week when my hair started falling out but today i was there so i told her, and she said that the other techs already told her. she was hoping i had super hair folicles that weren't going to fall out. but its hard to say if more will come out or not.

today there was this tiny little old woman in the waiting room.  sounds like she got her diagnosis on friday and is already in there starting her radiation and will start with chemo next week, i don't know what for though.  i felt so bad for her.  she was a spunky little lady but she was scared and overwhelmed.  it is alarming on that first day of radiation, they give you all this stuff and your schedule and your check-in card and your parking pass all before you even go in there to see THE MACHINE.  the nurse was talking to her, but i wanted to tell her that the nurses and everyone is great and that they will take great care of her.  if i see her tomorrow i will reach out to her.  she looked so scared, i felt bad that she was there all by herself.

last week of summer before school starts!  we've got a 1st and 3rd grader starting up.  sirus is the funniest.  he loves new clothes.  i got him a new handsome sweater for school.  he hung it up in his closet and told me how he was going to hang all of his handsome clothes in there.  seamus on the other hand likes new clothes too but will be the first to say she doesn't need any new shoes or a new shirt because she already has enough.  he is reading right out of eric's book with that one.  i guess i should embrace that while I can!
so sad that summer is almost over!