The further adventures of Meryl’s germs

So, to continue from last week’s brush with cat scratch fever—I got over it, mostly. I was pretty much recovered by the weekend, except that now my allergy meds weren’t working. So I called the allergist and asked for new meds, and instead, he prescribed a week’s worth of prednosone, which made me think of Gracie, who got that for her IBD last year. And after a few days (and many jokes about looking like Ah-nuld after working out at the gym), I discovered that steroids help suppress the immune response, which the allergist must have figured would give my meds a chance to kick back in. And the way I discovered this was by discovering extreme fatigue on Sunday and Monday. It wasn’t babysitting two energetic boys that wore me out—it was a virus I picked up, either at the gym, or at Synagogue on Friday night, or somewhere else in my travels while the steroids were suppressing my immune system.

So I have been working all week with a below-normal temperature. It’s up from the 95.6 range and back within a degree of normal today, but the exhaustion is not leaving. I work for a few hours. Then I nap for an hour. Then I work a few hours. Which is why I’m downloading 149 images from the server at work while I post this, to make up for the nap I took late this afternoon.

I really, really, REALLY want my health back. I am tired of being tired. Being sick makes me stupid. I was so stupid today that I moved an entire directory from a live website at work, realized I did it, moved it back, and then moved it AGAIN, before finally deciding it was time to step away from the computer and get back to it when I could think again.

On the other hand, I fixed a mystery that I thought would take me a lot longer and more research, and discovered how to use a search engine in your site that is not Google. I guess the stupidity comes and goes. I would like it to go and not come back, please. Because I’m not even sure this post is making sense.