Scary Sick.

So, there was a reason I dropped off the planet without posting last week.

Wednesday at work started like a normal day. Hectic with work-related things, but normal.

And then I noticed I kept scratching my left elbow. Harder and over and over and hey, is there a big lump on my elbow?

Fast forward two hours.

Some crazy-stressful stuff went down at work but I'm feeling good. Smiling even though my nerves are shot and it's barely noon.

Realize that I'm walking kinda stiffly. Knees are on FIRE, actual fire. When I touch them through my jeans, they feel hot.

Excuse self to bathroom where the freakout begins.

My knees, elbows, and one wrist are swollen horribly. It looks like bee stings times ten.

They are all hot and red and covered in welts or hives.

Debate how to tell the boss that I need to leave work asap, seeing as though I am probably harboring contagious diseases.

Burst into tears telling boss that I have probably given everyone The Black Death and need to leave immediately.

Leave 2 hours later, secure doctor's appointment for next day.

Am in horrible pain and can barely walk or do anything. The bottom of my right foot swells and I can barely walk.

Next day, the doctor proclaims that she hasn't seem someone looking so sick in forever.

Prescribes a billion tons of steroids to help the swelling go down. Quadruple the dose my dad had been taking for his injured elbow.

Diagnosis?

Probably a virus that somehow didn't make me sore-throat/cough sick... but that it attacked my joints instead.

WHAT?!

That and she took approximately 50 vials of blood to get blood work for a variety of other conditions, including but not limited to lyme disease, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and a hundred other diseases I would rather not think about.

Um, yeah.

Thankfully I'm still alive and feeling MUCH better.

I went back to work on Friday and despite some achey-ness and bruising in my joints from all the swelling, I am hopefully totally fine.

But don't think that 24-hours of the weirdest symptoms of my life doesn't have me grateful for every single second I have spent of my last 24 years on this planet feeling well.

I whine and complain a LOT for someone with such a charmed life... but I definitely don't take my health for granted. I'm lucky.

Hopefully you're all feeling well and not-sick this snowy Tuesday!