Being sick is boring after one day off

Yesterday, I made an attempt to go to work. When I went outside, my car was stuck in the parking lot (read: my landlord blows and doesn't take care of our parking lot), so I texted another medical student and then walked as fast as possible to the hospital, but was still 5 minutes late. The lovely cold air and 40mph winds made my throat feel pretty awesome and raw by the time I got there. Also, my voice was basically gone. I tried to stick it out, but admitted defeat a little over 2 hours after my arrival and trudged back home. 

I watched some TV, hydrated, napped, and then tried to get my car out of the parking lot to go buy some chicken noodle soup (because I was fresh out - I usually try to have 2 cans stocked at all times). No such luck. Thursday we had rain, which then froze, so I'm guessing my car was literally frozen in place. I tried shoveling the ice out, I tried using salt, and I tried calling my landlord. None of these things helped (read: NOT a fan of the landlord as of late). I called and complained to some friends, one of whom came and surprised me with some chicken noodle soup after I ended up calling AAA and asking for a tow. AAA came a little over 4 hours later and my car was freed. And thanks to my membership (thank you, Mom!), it was free. 

I ran out and did my grocery shopping right away for fear of my car getting stuck again. Then I came home, watched some netflix and called it a night.

Today I called in the big guns and took some sudafed. My voice is mostly back (though still a bit raspy). And then I started draining forever. My nose has been producing A LOT of clear stuff. I went through an entire box of tissues today. So, obviously the gym was out given that I can't breathe out either nostril. I did, however, feel well enough to study. And to take some food pictures for you. I wasn't all that hungry today, which I attribute to both the nausea and the sudafed. I wish I knew why I was feeling so nauseated. I guess it could be partly because of this virus, but there were parts of the day where I couldn't eat...which is obviously not usually a thing for me.

Breakfast feast: eggs, bagel thin (one with blueberry cream cheese, the other with brown sugar, cinnamon)

Made some guac by adding salsa to an avocado. Ate half of it for a late lunch

Couldn't eat the yogurt because of nausea

Dinner: protein-peanut butter oats

Dinner, part 2

Tomorrow I'm hoping to feel better! I've got a big test Friday and I need to do a bunch of stuff to wrap up all this clerkship crap so that I never have to see children as patients again! So, so, so not doing peds. Nope, nope, nope. You couldn't pay me enough to be a pediatrician. So glad other people want to do that because I would rather die (which could happen since it's probably the kiddos who got me this sick to begin with).