The Best Intentions

Well so much for jumping back into my fitness routine.  Enter stage left the nastiest cold I've had in a long time.  I can't remember the last time my head felt like it was going to explode from all the pressure in my sinuses.  I said I was hoarse after the opera but I had no idea how much worse I was going to feel.  I worked on Monday and Tuesday but by Wednesday morning I felt too miserable to take care of sick people.  I was off today as usual but I still am coughing and sneezing too much to go in tomorrow.

Today I tried irrigating my sinuses with saline.  Some people swear by this but I get only a brief respite.  As I still have sleep apnea I must sleep with a c-pap machine.  With a machine blasting air into my  nose all night the nasal secretions get really packed up there in my head.  My nose is very red and tender in spite of using the Puffs with lotion tissues.

So needless to say I haven't gotten back to the gym yet.  As for my food diary I start out in the morning but have not kept up with it all day.  I'm eating a lot of the sugar free popsicles to soothe my throat.  Tonight I made myself some French onion soup.  It was pretty yummy.  Maybe tomorrow I'll make myself some Five Alarm Chili to get things cleared out.

Love to all,
Marlena of Mohegan