Much though I adore traveling, I seldom adore coming home. That's because I usually come down with some nasty cold or cough or other kind of creeping crud. This trip was no exception.
As it happened, we had already set up an appointment with our new GP (the previous GP is no longer in our insurance network... bummer) on Tuesday, so along with all the other info she asked for (last tetanus, last A1C result, last colonoscopy...), I also told her how crappy I was feeling. She looked down my throat and said, "Yep, I can see the drip," but wasn't overly concerned. I skipped knitting that night because while she wasn't concerned, I wasn't too sure why, and thought I must be contagious.
By Thursday morning, my scratchy throat had spread to include a mouth that felt like it was made of raw meat. I visited the urgent care center across the street and got some zithromycin for the infection and cough syrup with codeine so I could get some sleep. By Friday afternoon, I felt 92% better and by Saturday afternoon, felt I was well on my way to being alllll better. There was a small relapse Saturday night where I thought maybe the sore throat was coming back, but all day today, it's been behaving itself. I think I'm on the mend.
It doesn't matter where we go for the trip - cruise, Hawaii, Florida, Arizona - I always manage to catch some crud that lasts for about a week. I tried Airborne once, but you have to take that stuff every 3 hours and I would forget... sort of defeated the purpose. I suppose the other option would be to not travel. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I crack me up sometimes...
Poor KW, too... while we were gone, Northern California was having a nice wet set of 2 weeks. Great that it happened while we were gone (and having lovely weather, BTW), but boy, once his sinuses hit the California air, the pollens found their way in and he had an even worse couple of days than I did. He normally has problems with allergies, but every 4 or 5 years it's really bad. These few days were one of those years. He's still medicating, but at least he's not sneezing 10 or 12 times an hour any more.
For those of you trying to follow our travels, at the end of April, we'll take a trip up to Sonoma County for a wine event (yes, I'll be the designated driver), and in May, I'm kidnapping a friend for a long weekend. Then there's a retreat at a friend's house over another weekend, and finally I'm being kidnapped for another weekend. Little travels like that (2 or 3 days) don't seem to wreak havoc on my system like the longer ones do, so I have no trepidation for them at all.
That's it for now.
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