I think I’ve got a cold.
When we first got our dog, like almost immediately, my nose stuffed up and I started having a lot of sneezing fits. I don’t know how many tissues I’ve gone through over the last five days but it must be close to a box full by now.
At first I thought it was because our pup smelled like the pine shavings she’d been kept on in the barn where she was raised, but I gave her a bath on Saturday and my nose continued to be irritated and well runny.
Then I worried that it was allergies. I am allergic to animals with fur, but I usually get a little wheezy. So far no wheezing, but there’s the troubling sniffles.
I’ve now come to think that it might be a cold because my sniffles were a lot better yesterday. As I’ve mentioned a few times in my recent posts I’ve been really tired this week. I’ve been blaming it on the puppy, but I think it might be because I’ve also been fighting a virus.
Speaking of tired – I’ve been walking around like I’m in a fog. I think Chris is over tired too. We’ll go into a store and just mill around instead of heading directly to whatever we went to the store to get. We’re also forgetting what we went to the store in the first place for too. I mean, we’ve needed a cordless phone battery for a while now and each time we go to the store we totally forget to even look for one!
I’ve been so tired that I’ve even been forgetting to take my Crohn’s meds and pain meds!
Do you ever get that way when you’re tired? You have to do things – work, go shopping, care for children or whatever – but you’re so tired that you can’t really think straight? That’s the way I’ve been all week.
Perhaps you do have a slight allergy that you need to get over with your new puppy?
Fingers crossed it is not an allergy, I tend to live my life in a fog a lot of the time but that is a life long thing lol.
Are you sure you aren’t allergic? Sounds like you are, I know I am allergic..
I also have allergies or a cold this week. Mine started Monday and it has gotten progressively worse each day. And…I feel like such a wus because this is the first time in 2 years I have this stuff and I’m not dealing with it very well.
Hang in there and “this too shall pass!”
I have 4 small children and for quite some time sleep deprivation was just a way of life. I know exactly what you mean by the fog. I would find myself standing in the middle of the room with absolutely no clue as to what I was doing. A few times I stuck food in the refrigerator thinking it was the microwave and the other way around as well.
On the other hand being sleep deprived makes even the shortest moment of closing your eyes feel like extreme bliss. It really makes you appreciate sleep.
So for what it’s worth, you’re not alone,
Jim