Ugh

Oh, my cold has hit with a vengeance today. Feeling really cruddy. I went to the doctor this afternoon. She listened to me breathe, and then had me take a 5-minute breathing treatment. It might have just been water vapor, or there might have been some medicine in it. I was too tired to ask. She said I don't have pneumonia. Now I have a new inhaler (asthma-type) to use every 6 hours for a week. I've gotten to this point before, and the inhaler helps. I don't have asthma on a regular basis, but I do have stress-induced asthma (germs = stress) every 3 or 4 years.

I would love to stay home tomorrow, but I'm scheduled to go to a conference in Portland. At least I can just sit and learn, and now have to worry about kids and my lit coach duties. I will be carpooling with 3 other teachers, so I won't even have to drive into Portland.

It's weird for me to be so sick - two times in four weeks. I almost never get sick. I'm either picking up germs from the grandkids in the house, or from my little nursery children at church. I'm pretty immune to teenage germs, but I'm going to have to build up stronger immunity to little-people germs.