New Medicine

This isn't good!  I tried this new form of Albuterol, which I need to take occasionally for the mucus build-up in my lungs (yucky, I know).  Normally I take it through breathing treatments, which means I empty a cartridge of liquid Albuterol into this cup thingee with a mouthpiece, turn on the machine, and it vaporizes it so I inhale it.  Afterward, I'm shaky for about a half hour, but it goes away and I feel better.

Lately I'm so busy I don't really have time to sit down for an hour, breathe out of a machine, and then wait for the effects to wear off, so I tried a 12-hour Albuterol pill before I went to bed last night.  I slept fine, but I woke up this morning SO SHAKY!  Like, I could barely get out of bed.  I had to sit down in the shower and it took me an hour to get ready for work!  Usually I get up a half hour early and try to do Pilates (when I'm not sick, and I thought I would feel good enough to do it this morning) but I could barely stand!  

I feel a little bit better now, because I took it at about midnight last night so I'm expecting it to wear off at around noon.  But that's the last time I take the Albuterol pill unless I'm planning on lying around for 12 hours!  

Because even though I'm shaky and messed up . . . at least I'm not coughing!

Weird Things that Ruin My Day

So besides the fact that I'm still pretty deathly ill, there are a few other things that ruined my day for the past two days.

Yesterday I had to wake up super early for work, but I chugged some DayQuil which made me functional for the hour and a half that I was needed for.  I came back at 9:30am and my boyfriend was still here (weird, because he usually leaves at like 7am because he is strange).  I talked to him for about 10 minutes before I realized that I NEEDED to go back to bed for awhile.  I set my phone alarm for 11am so I would not miss Gilmore Girls.  

I slept through Gilmore Girls!  I was so mad.  I woke up at 1:30pm and all that awaited me was laundry.  Definitely a day-ruiner.   It doesn't even matter that I have every episode on DVD.  That means nothing.

Actually, what ruined my day even more was the fact that HogwartsLive.com was down.  HogwartsLive is basically my #1 time waster and I love it.  It's a text-based RPG and you just go into the forest and kill creatures, get experience and defeat Voldemort.  Then you start all over again.  You chat with other players and whatnot.  My friends Katie, Matt and Adrianne are on it as well, it's extremely addicting.  So the fact that it has been down for 2 days is a total day ruiner.  Especially when I'm at work and I have nothing else to do.  It better work on Monday, because Monday is the boring shift where I'm alone for 2 1/2 hours.

Take it from me -- a killer sore throat, sleeping through Gilmore Girls and no HogwartsLive is a crappy day.