I hate being sick! (rant)

Last week was AWFUL. I wasn’t sick, but I’m sure it made me exhausted enough to allow me to be sick now. I not only teach, I also direct the ENTIRE drama program in the high school, and the play opened this past Friday. Needless to say, we were NOT ready, mostly because the wood supplier delivered the material for our flats WAY late. I have to hand it to my tech crew; they built (from scratch) 13 double-side wheeled flats — a style they’d never tried before — and painted them in a week. And then we could do lighting cues, and THEN work on switching sets for scene changes.

Needless to say, I was at my school for 16 hours a day, and I was WORKING all those hours.

Now… I’m sick. I woke up Saturday with a 100.6 fever (pretty high for me, since I usually run around 96.9-97.2). Unfortunately, we had two shows on Saturday, so I couldn’t skip out, and I spent Sunday researching and writing, since I have two papers due tomorrow.

Now… I’m home sick. No fever, but my throat is so swollen that I can’t swallow properly — I wind up "backwashing" into my own mouth. Ick. My throat feels like acid is wearing away at it. I’m spitting up bloody mucus and today I started coughing for real.

I have a doctor’s appointment in about 45 mins, but I still have to write another paper AND finish knitting a hat by around 6pm tonight. I am SO screwed!