Garden variety virus
Apr. 24th, 2019 01:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nosrednaydujI've been sick for a few days. Finally went to the doctor to see if it was strep (symptoms include sore throat among various chest and nasal symptoms). Rapid came back negative; I've had this for long enough he says the rapid would be positive if I had bacterial infection. They'll send out the slow test anyway, but likeliest outcome is, antibiotics will not be helpful.
I blame it all on the CTO of the company. He's been having me do extra stuff for him again (and, since I like him despite a certain amount of Male Answer Syndrome and other objectively annoying traits, and it's always helpful when the CTO likes you, mostly I step up to the plate.) Unfortunately, there was a foo-foo-rah involving some employees in Asia and miscommunication, so he decided he needed to call a meeting at 6:30am last Thursday. Well, obviously I'm attending from home, but it wasn't called early enough for me to get an adequate night's sleep. Plus, like, it's all very stressful. Seems, when I have stress + lack of sleep, I get sick. Almost every time. I tried to catch up on sleep Thursday night, but it wasn't enough.
Maybe I shouldn't have tried windsurfing on Friday morning. (First time this year. Way lots of wind; I was kind of blown away and there wasn't all that much success.) But, more likely, it didn't actually have anything to do with it. The water's 55, and I was wearing all manner of wetsuit bits. I was not at all cold except for the first little bit when the water runs into the wetsuit. I wasn't yet feeling bad, just had a tickle in the throat. By Friday night, it was a roar.
Bah.
I blame it all on the CTO of the company. He's been having me do extra stuff for him again (and, since I like him despite a certain amount of Male Answer Syndrome and other objectively annoying traits, and it's always helpful when the CTO likes you, mostly I step up to the plate.) Unfortunately, there was a foo-foo-rah involving some employees in Asia and miscommunication, so he decided he needed to call a meeting at 6:30am last Thursday. Well, obviously I'm attending from home, but it wasn't called early enough for me to get an adequate night's sleep. Plus, like, it's all very stressful. Seems, when I have stress + lack of sleep, I get sick. Almost every time. I tried to catch up on sleep Thursday night, but it wasn't enough.
Maybe I shouldn't have tried windsurfing on Friday morning. (First time this year. Way lots of wind; I was kind of blown away and there wasn't all that much success.) But, more likely, it didn't actually have anything to do with it. The water's 55, and I was wearing all manner of wetsuit bits. I was not at all cold except for the first little bit when the water runs into the wetsuit. I wasn't yet feeling bad, just had a tickle in the throat. By Friday night, it was a roar.
Bah.
