turns out it was more than just allergies...

So you know how I said I had been feeling miserable lately because of allergies?  Well it turns out that I actually have pneumonia.

During the day on Wednesday when I was student teaching I was coughing a lot (and not my normal cough from allergies) and I started getting these bad pains in my upper back.  Then when I got home I just felt exhausted and weak and was having these horrible chills (all of these symptoms had been happening off and on for about a week.)

Then when I woke up yesterday morning I just felt horrible...sharp pains in my back whenever I took a breath and a generally crappy overall feeling.  I went to take Hanna out and I was seeing stars and thought I was going to vomit or pass out.  K was on his way to work so I called and told him I thought he should come home because I was worried about being alone all day.  I had a fever and slept for awhile then I felt a tiny bit better...so I started looking around on the internet and noticed that I had almost all of the symptoms of pneumonia...so K took me to the doctor.

We just went to one of those walk-in places right near me and they were so efficient.  I was in and out in under an hour and they did chest x-rays, a strep test, and a flu test in that time.  Luckily, the doctor said my chest x-ray was ok and she didn't see a "big amount" of pneumonia, but based on everything else she wanted to treat it that way.

Yesterday was pretty rough, my mom and my sister (who is visiting from Boston for the weekend) came and took care of me when K was at class in the evening.  But, during the night I woke up and realized the sharp breathing pain was gone and today I feel much, much, much better.  Still not 100% but getting there.  In fact, we are getting ready to go out to dinner with my family and some friends (I am not going to eat much or drink anything but water...but the doctor said it was fine for me to be around people.)

So that was my most recent drama!  Hope you all have a nice weekend, I'll be doing a lot of resting!