Lazy Day

Today was a lazy day. Unintentionally, but it happens. I was kinda bummed, to be honest because my days of freedom are coming to an end. 

We got up and did a day care tour. It was a real bummer because I was lead to believe they'd have an infant spot soon, but in reality we had to get on a waitlist that is over a year in length - the next available spot is likely in December 2020. I also called a lot of women who do in-home daycare. I don't know why, but that makes me nervous. We have more tours on Thursday, so we'll see how things go.

After our daycare tour, we headed to the store to buy some goodies to attach our new license plates. Nasur put mine on for me and he also did some car surgery to put his plates on his car. He's a bold man - I wouldn't have drilled into my own car.

Once we had all eaten lunch, Nasur had to watch soccer, so the nugget and I went and took naps in our respective bedrooms. Unfortunately, my nap lasted far longer than I anticipated so our plans to go walk about the sculpture garden were scrapped. We played a bit, had dinner, put the nugget to bed and then watched the finale of AGT. I'm not sure who I'm hoping to win, but I miss Heidi and Mel B this season - I miss the sass and honesty. I'm not sure I'll watch again.

We also got all packed up for our day trip to Boulder tomorrow. One of our family friends used to live there so she's going to take us to the hot spots and spend the day with us!

I guess I wasn't as great at taking photos today as I thought I was. Oops!

Dinner: steak bowl from HelloFresh

Our little bathing beauty

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).