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Jun. 8th, 2015 09:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynI will do my best to tag people and have an online presence today, but I've had a head cold since midway through last week. (I am mildly suspicious of my brain for starting the symptoms right around the time I got a phone call from the World Trade Center Health Registry and told them that I hadn't had one of my old godawful sinus infections since moving to Boston.) I stayed home and tried to relax this weekend, where 'relax' = 'remoted into the office and spent several hours moving three critical virtual machines to new hardware', and each night I took Tylenol Severe Cold and Sinus Nighttime tablets and still didn't fall asleep until after 2 AM, so last night I didn't take the tablets on the chance that the antihistamines were keeping me awake after all.
Unfortunately this was not the case and I not only found myself unable to disengage the thoughts racing in my brain for long enough to fall asleep before 2 AM, but my sinuses decided to start draining down the back of my throat instead of out my nose, so I was hit by my old enemy post-nasal drip. Even if I'd been able to mentally disengage, physically I was being interrupted by the coughing. I took one tablet sometime around 2:30 and it... didn't really help very much. I mean, I felt a little more tired but I'm not sure anything really dried up. I don't remember whether I got more than two hours of sleep last night at all; the cats woke me up for food around 5:15 and then I had a coughing fit in the bathroom and things got gross before I could go back to bed for another hour.
Anyway, long story short and too much medical detail for anyone's tastes aside, I'm not really sure I have the ability to focus well enough to tag anyone and/or maintain a coherent thread. When I go home this evening I'm going to see if an hour's attempted nap time can take the edge off without screwing up the rest of my sleep schedule, assuming Kamella doesn't make her usual assumption of OH DEAR BAST YOU'RE GOING TO DIE BEFORE FEEDING ME AGAIN and sit next to my bed giving sad little meows just often enough to disrupt any hope of my dropping off to sleep at all.
Unfortunately this was not the case and I not only found myself unable to disengage the thoughts racing in my brain for long enough to fall asleep before 2 AM, but my sinuses decided to start draining down the back of my throat instead of out my nose, so I was hit by my old enemy post-nasal drip. Even if I'd been able to mentally disengage, physically I was being interrupted by the coughing. I took one tablet sometime around 2:30 and it... didn't really help very much. I mean, I felt a little more tired but I'm not sure anything really dried up. I don't remember whether I got more than two hours of sleep last night at all; the cats woke me up for food around 5:15 and then I had a coughing fit in the bathroom and things got gross before I could go back to bed for another hour.
Anyway, long story short and too much medical detail for anyone's tastes aside, I'm not really sure I have the ability to focus well enough to tag anyone and/or maintain a coherent thread. When I go home this evening I'm going to see if an hour's attempted nap time can take the edge off without screwing up the rest of my sleep schedule, assuming Kamella doesn't make her usual assumption of OH DEAR BAST YOU'RE GOING TO DIE BEFORE FEEDING ME AGAIN and sit next to my bed giving sad little meows just often enough to disrupt any hope of my dropping off to sleep at all.
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Date: 2015-06-08 03:17 pm (UTC)