Sickness

The last few weeks have been incredibly busy here.  School started, so I have been back at work for the last couple of weeks.  Last week was the first week of school and the week before that, we had work days and a meet and greet with the students.  The day before the meet and greet, I went to work to try to finish up getting ready for school to start.  I felt really tired and kind of achy all day.  I thought that I was tired because Julia was up 3 times during the night.  I went home, cooked dinner, and ate with the family.  Then I sat down and I felt like I couldn't get up.  I felt like I had a fever because I was cold and couldn't get warm.  I took my temperature, but it was only 99.  I told Nathan that he had to take care of the kids because I wasn't feeling well, so he took them to Home Depot and I took a nap.  When I woke up from the nap, my temperature was 102.5.  That's when I knew that something was wrong.  My guess was that I had a breast infection and that I needed medication.

Nathan came home and I told him that he would have to take me to the Urgent Care because I had to go to work the next day and it was already 7:30.  Luckily the urgent care is open until 10.  When we got there, I told them what had happened and that I thought it was a breast infection.  They really had no idea what I was talking about.  The nurse even asked me if I thought that they doctor would want to check my breasts.  That was when I figured out that urgent care may not be the best place to go for this type of infection.  The doctor came in and was very nice.  They had done blood work, and it had shown an infection of some kind, so she put me on Augmentin and diagnosed a breast infection, even though she really had no idea.

I went to work the next day to meet the kids and felt awful.  Luckily my boss said that I could leave right after the meet and greet.  I went home and slept for the rest of the day.  Then the next day, my fever was gone!  I had taken 3 doses of medication by then, so I stand by my diagnosis of breast infection. I think I am prone to these types of infections during times of stress. I am really grateful that the infection hit the week before school started and not during the first week of school.  Now hopefully we can all stay healthy for awhile.