Once upon a time...

The steroids have helped tremendously. The fever/dragon skin caused by the Bactrum/Trimethoprim/Doxycyline has cleared up. The joint pain, the swollen right mastoid, and the feeling of being sunburned all over my body are gone too. However, the original spots of infection on my legs that were originally being treated by those medications are still there. I can't win. I have to go back to the doctor again tomorrow.

I want to thank everyone for their kind comments and well-wishes. I haven't been up to responding individually yet. I've slept most of the day due to the steroids and the benadryl injections I got today.

I am not feeling very well right now... I blame food... and the heat. Blurg. I hate the humidity-sickness. Damn Southern weather.

Midnight needs to get here quick!

I am fighting off sickness. I think I might have undercooked a casserole, and now I'm not feeling well. Blurgh... I've got to get up though and do the house-cleaning for today.

On a happier note, the mother robin did come back to her nest! She and, I assume, the papa robin have been taking turns sitting on the remaining egg. They peep and chirp all day long. The only problem is that I'm afraid to go into our front room because the birds see movement and fly off. Also, the summer storms are still going strong, and I worry about the wreath being tossed around and the egg falling out like the first one. I wonder how long it takes for robin eggs to hatch and grow into wee flying birds...

Fever's back up to 101 today, and I'm in class spreading my evil germs to everyone in this sweltering hot school which is just breeding ground for contamination. I have to be in class because I missed ID2 and Portfolio 2 last Wednesday, and now all this stuff is due... and Seth doesn't want me in class 'cause I'm sick but I can't miss anymore since we had a critique and a new project handout today. He didn't even look at my interface design during critique. ;_;

God, I feel terrible. I've had a fever for a few days, and I've been hoping it would break but it hasn't. I should probably go to health services before the weekend. I hate that I have to miss class today, but with this fever causing my vertigo to go haywire, a constant ringing in my deaf ear, and a more-than-mild case of eyestrain, I doubt I would be any good doing anything in class today. I don't think I could leave my room today if I tried. I've settled in to rest, relax, try to keep my head from exploding or bursting into flames or be wracked by the chills. *dies*

I'm in unspeakable pain at the moment. It came over me so suddenly. I was folding laundry when it felt like all the blood rushed to my head and there was a weird "whoomph whoomph" noise in my left ear. Now my neck and back are killing me and I have a migraine that could take down a bear. It's probably stress. I'm having to pack right now because I leave on Friday for my job at the Governor's School, but I've got another dermatologist appointment tomorrow, which I am not looking forward to. Plus the packing makes my mother stress out and yell at me every two minutes so that I can't sit down without her screaming about how lazy I am. I seriously hope I'm not coming down with something; I don't think I could take it.