Sick weekend

Well as you may have already read on Kelly's blog, I came down with a bit of an illness yesterday morning. I started having a small cough at work on Friday but didn't really think it was anything major. But then Saturday morning I woke up with the chills and aching muscles and an even worse cough so I knew things were not right. The headache and fever followed soon and I have been bedridden ever since. But I'm feeling better now so it seems that I didn't catch the flu that has been going around. I'm still in bed recovering but definitely not feeling as bad as yesterday. It's basically just turned into a head cold.

The funny thing about it all is that when I first took my temperature yesterday it was 100.5 and then a few hours later is was 101.5. But I never really felt like my skin was hot enough to have that high of a fever. So we thought that maybe the electric blanket was making my body hot and making the thermometer read high temperatures. I guess we'll never know, but if I did have a fever I think the electric blanket played a large role in making it go down. After the 101.5 I took a few hour long nap with the blanket turned up pretty high. I woke up drenched in sweat, which as we all know is a good sign that your fever is going down. I took my temperature again and it was 98.5 so I credit the blanket with the quick cure.

So anyway, I will have ended up spending my whole weekend laying around in bed once I go back to work tomorrow. Not a great way to spend any weekend but we were probably not going to do anything this weekend anyway so if I was going to get sick it might as well have been now. Kelly has done a great job of taking care of me as she always does when I'm sick. She made me soup and rice and some delicious onigiri and checks on me constantly to see if I need anything. She also banned me from the kitchen all day yesterday which was probably smart. Caspian has also checked on me regularly and been very excited the few times I've stood up only to be disappointed when I lay down again a few minutes later. But he makes for good company even when we're just laying around feeling sorry for ourselves. :)

So here are my picks for the championship games this weekend in case anybody cares. I'm picking Pittsburgh to beat Baltimore and I really think that Arizona will beat Philadelphia. So I'm picking Pittsburgh and Arizona in the Super Bowl. We'll see. I won't pick the Super Bowl winner yet. Might as well wait to see if I got these right first.