I really thought that last night was gonna be the night I'd finally sleep all the way through. After the awesome five-hour "nap" I had yesterday mid-day, I figured I was home free.
Then the coughing started. You'd think, yeah, I just need to take a cough suppressant, but the problem is that they all have acetaminophen, in huge doses at that, and between what I already had and what was in the Vicodin, I was in my mind risking overdose. In real clinical terms, maybe I wasn't, but reading about it scares the hell out of me. The problem is that NyQuil/DayQuil has a shit load of the stuff. Two TBSP, one normal dose, of NyQuil has 1000 mg. According to the online research, some people's livers start to react adversely with 4000 mg in a 24 hour period. I was already up to 1500 with three Vicodin, so I made the non-medical opinion that I had to put it off until morning.
I've been up since 6:30 or so (and by up I mean vertical with the computer on), and I feel like I'm getting a handle on work stuff. Prior to going to Vegas I knew I had to get a fresh build of our app because mine was hosed, so that's taking a little bit of time. Had some things to research too. I have an afternoon meeting they're going to call me for, and things should be swell and I'll be caught up. I decided to work from home because all of this coughing is aggravated by talking, and aggravating for anyone who has to hear it (or be exposed to my bacterial death).
My body is pissed off. I'm now down seven pounds since before Vegas. I'm assuming much of that is water weight, but secretly hope it's not. My stomach was angrily making noise all night. It's doing it right now, but I just can't bring myself to put anything into it. Everything tastes terrible and nothing is appetizing.
My world at home is in chaos. I've got laundry all over the damn place, we need certain key grocery items and I've got the aftermath of the trip all over the place too. I feel like I've relied on Diana beyond what I should (though being the sweetheart she is, she insists otherwise), and I don't want to ask her to do anything else for me.
Then it occurs to me I haven't posted news on CoasterBuzz all week. The new project that Walt and I are doing I haven't touched at all. I'm not getting my sales person the data she needs for that project. The business is simply going by the way side.
So I'm feeling a little overwhelmed, and will likely have to pass out for a couple of hours after the lack of sleep. My meeting isn't until 2:30, so I've got time.
One step at a time... I'll get it together.
Good catch on the possible Tylenol overdose. That could have really messed up your liver.
We have had a few instances over the past few months at work where insanely high vicodin/percocet orders were ordered for patients. When the pharmacists did the calculation, they would have well exceeded the conservative maximum thresholds for Tylenol overdose. It is easy to forget about something like that when "acetaminophen" isn't expressly stated in the common name.