Deja Vu and Medicine Heads

I made it through my day and my week in spite of the holidays, being sick and dealing with the 1 year anniversary of losing my Grandma.  It's hard to believe its already been a year and it's still so weird to go visit my parents and know my Grandma isn't around, some days I just expect her to pop her head around the corner and tell me about all of the things she's been up to with her friends, music classes and jokes she's played on Mom and Michael.  We thought all of the holiday heartbreak was over with everything that happened last year, but as luck would have it for our family, my step-dad Michael lost his mom on Christmas Day this year.  So the holidays were a bit strained once again and now we're preparing for another funeral tomorrow.

On top of the normal holiday stress and dealing with losing another family member, I somehow came down with the worst cold possible.  I don't know how that happened, I haven't run myself ragged the last 8 weeks or anything, but the day after Christmas I woke up feeling like I'd been hit by a bus.  I loaded up on vitamins at first thinking I'd fight it off with those and finally Tuesday morning, I stopped into Walgreens before work to get the good stuff.  Of course, me not being one for taking medicine very often, I felt even more dazed and so much so, I guess it finally showed at work today.  I couldn't find a simple journal entry error in the write-offs I was posting and then locked up the batch I was working on in our system.  I emailed my boss to "unlock" my work because I was stuck and couldn't figure out why.  She promptly recovered my journal entry, informed me of the error and sent me this via email:

December 29: medicine head

Mental fogginess resulting from having taken cold/flu medicine. Common side effect of certain antihistamines.

"I took some NyQuil and now I have medicine head like you wouldn't believe. Everything feels and looks surreal -- but at least I can breathe without coughing."

Appropriate isn't it?

At least I'm done with work for the week so I can hopefully get better and not bring this thing with me into 2012.