I really don’t like taking antibiotics but I’m so glad they exist. Unfortunately that cold that I caught while I was in Whistler turned into a sinus infection somehow. It was going on 10-11 days and I just wasn’t getting any better. So much congestion, coughing, post nasal drip. I had to go back do the doctor because I couldn’t take it anymore. The odd thing was that the doc barely even examined me. I hate that. I mean come on I’m paying you like $70, I don’t go just to tell you I think I have a sinus infection and have you agree with me. He only looked in my throat. HOW can you diagnose a sinus infection by looking in my throat? Either way, I told him all my symptoms and he agreed with me and gave me Zithromax. I love this antibiotic because it’s only 5 days. I had Cipro for the last infection a month ago and it was awful…had to take it twice a day for 10 days, and you couldn’t eat any sort of dairy or anything that has been fortified with calcium with the antibiotic. Needless to say it really limited my food choices. I mean, even eggo waffles are foritifed with calcium. EVERYTHING seems to be fortified with calcium these days, it’s pretty crazy. I bet my milk is calcium fortified. It seems like everything I wanted to eat had some sort of cheese or dairy in it, or else it had calcium. I got so frustrated!
Anyway. I’m on day 4 of Zithromax and my nose is FINALLY not all clogged up and I’ve got my sense of smell back. My right ear is still making the occasional crackling noise, but I think I’m pretty much getting better. Finally. Maybe this will be the last of these stupid sicknesses. I feel like I’ve been sick 90% of the time since I arrived in California at the end of October, and I’m NOT exaggerating. I think I’ve only had about 2 weeks of clean health since then. This is really unlike me – I used to get sick a lot with strep throat/colds/sinus issues when I was a kid, but since college I’ve been pretty healthy. My friends here must think I’m some sickly person.
In other news, it seems that San Diego (actually all of California) is in the crosshairs of a pretty heavy storm system. It’s going to deluge rain for the next 5 days, and it’s going to be really windy. I just hope we don’t get a lot of flooding. What is annoying is that I won’t be able to surf for at least a week. After it rains around here you should wait a few days for the runoff to dissipate. It all runs into the ocean taking all the pollutants and some sewage with it. That’s all I need – another sinus infection.
The good thing about these storms is that they will hopefully dump a lot of snow in the mountains here in California, and that means some good snowboarding! Even if my friends can’t go I might make a solo shot to Mountain High or something, especially if I can’t surf for a few days after all this rain.