SIDEWAYS!

Damn,
I have been sick for seven days. Suffering from sinus trouble all winter, I looked for a cause. Being a lifelong sufferer of allergies, they seemed the most likely culprit.
My allergies have been worsening an new ones have developed in the last two years. Two major life changes have also occured at the same time.

I started eating meat 2 1/2 years ago after 10 years of being a vegitarian. I never preparing it at home and at first just started not refusing it when served at someone elses home or at a function. In the last year I have been eating it more and more when out.
Cause? I don't know.

The other change was that I became a high school teacher 2 years ago. After messengering in Cleveland and Nantucket (owned/operated the only bike messenger service on the Island)each for a year each, and 9 years in Boston I hung up my delivery wheels. I had finaly finished my BA and sought a job in acedemia. Being shut in a building with 400 teenagers and 50 adults is not as healthy as riding outside 8 hours a day, even if it is in the city.
This, environmental reason seems most likely.

But seeing as I don't plan on changing my profession, I stopped eating meat again.

I caught the flu last week and finaly made it to a doctor on Thursday after forcing myself to work only to fade out by the end of the day and sleep all afternoon and night. I went to the doc with the expressed interest of seeing an Allergist and resuming a course of allergy shots I had suspended 12 years ago when I dropped out of college and no longer had insurance.

The doctor wanted me to first try drugs. Go figure!?! I told him I didn't like the side effects (e.g., sleepyness, irritability, dehydration) but he insisted we try this before a referal to an allergist. I relented and now I'm a psycho bitch on a tear. Don't fuckin mess with me or I'll freak on you or cry. I hate taking drugs nearly as much as I hate our president and other liars in our government over the last 280 years.

So now I have to deal with this crap for a couple of weeks before I can get that referal. Or I can change doctorss, which I tried to do on Thursday, but the one I wanted wouldn't take any new patients for 2 weeks. I hope good will come tto those who wait.

This whole "having health care" thing is pretty new and at times harder than just willing sickness away.

SICK!!!

I've been sick since Saturday evening.
I came to school only because I had to hand in my grades.
I tried leave early but I was denied. Too many teachers called in sick today so I had to stay. Everyone, teachers and kids, keep saying I look like shit.
Cool.