Hello Rubber... Meet Road

I cannot be sick again!

But I am... *sigh*

Back in October I came down with the flu.  No big deal. My boys had been sick, so when I got the body aches, headache, etc. I knew that it would pass. That was on a Sunday.  The week went by and on Friday I started feeling a bit better.  Then Saturday... I started feeling - not-so-hot. I drove my hubby to the airport (he was taking a rare work trip to North Dakota for a week) and figured I'd wake up feeling better on Sunday.  I went to church, then came home and crawled into bed and stayed there for the entire day.  THE ENTIRE DAY!

For those that know me... you know that does NOT happen.

So I continued to tell myself each day that I just needed to sleep it off. Thursday night Tim called to say they'd asked him to stay an additional few days in North Dakota.  I told him I was so sick that he should just stay (but THOUGHT... please come home and take care of me!!).   Had a strep test on Friday.  Negative.  Then I thought, "What a WHIMP!"

Long story short - after 3 1/2 weeks I went to the doctor to BEG them to figure out why I still felt terrible.  Diagnosis?  Strep & sinus infection.  So, two days before Thanksgiving I started taking meds and I finally felt all better.  Phew!

Until last Thursday night.  *sigh* 

That's when I started feeling tired again, with just the tiniest sore throat.  By Monday night I was laying in bed, hardly able to sleep because I felt so awful.  Back to the doctors yesterday to get round 2 of anti-biotics. 

So this morning when I woke up at 5:35, the LAST thing I wanted to do was work out.  I'm tired, I'm sick, and the meds haven't kicked in yet... go AWAY Jillian Michaels! 

But I DID work out. 

20 minutes of Shred and it feels like 20 hours! 

I DRAGGED myself into work, having those thoughts of  "WHY am I doing ToughMudder?  WHAT was I thinking?  WHO do I think I am???"

But then... C O F F E E!!!  

So now it's 10:01, the ibuprophen has kicked in, the caffiene is traveling through my veins, and my co-worker, Carol, has decided to become a ToughMudder with me.  Ah.... life is good!  I can do this!

Now... for challenge number 2 of my day.  The company lunch at a chinese buffet... Self-control here might be harder than Jillian Michaels at 5:30 in the morning...