Bah Humbug

This is flipping typical. I have 5 days clear to tidy back room and get tree and decorate it, so what happens? The worse cold ever that's what, if it hadn't been for the fact I have had the flu jab, I would really think I had that.

List of symptoms include sore throat, painfully sinus, chesty cough so bad it is making me throw up, limbs too heavy and painful to move, and a headache that is so bad I want complete silence. It hit hard as Friday I was OK sans a little headache. Yesterday morning I was able to get to the church coffee morning and supermarket, but by yesterday afternoon I was in pure physical pain.

Today was the church Christmas lunch, so hubby kindly drove me round as the thought of walking made my legs turn to jelly. I was OK and even stopped coughing for the first hour or so, although my appetite was appallingly low, a mouse could have eaten more. For starters there were two soups on offer tomato or broccoli and Stilton, normally I would jump at the later, but instead I declined both and nibbled at my roll with my apple juice. Then came the full roast with all the trimmings and a few extras. There was turkey and pigs in blankets for the meat eaters or home made Christmas quiche with cheese cranberry and pickled walnuts for us vegetarians. This was accompanied with peas, carrots, green beans, sprouts, corn, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, stuffing balls and cauliflower cheese. As I can hop and carry mum brought me a small plate of food, of which I managed a roast potato, a small slice of quiche, half a spoon of peas and 3 sprouts. Needless to say my reduced appetite has raised some eyebrows.

But the worst was still to come. Whilst people had seconds and then the crackers were pulled, I became very aware of the increasing pain in my limbs. By the time plates were being cleared touching my legs and feet on the ground invoked tears. Calmly and quietly hubby helped me outside for some air hoping a painkiller and cooling down would help. It didn't I couldn't stop the tears and the pain was so bad I wanted to scream so loudly the new double glazing in the hall would have been sorely tested. Mum came out and called time on my outing helping me put my coat on and get to hubby's car, I never saw dessert or coffee. So now I have spent the rest of the day in bed.

The problem is whatever this virus is , it has sent my CRPS scatty and means the I have lost control of the pain in my back and legs. So on top of not feeling hungry, I can't get any relief from this pain. All I know is that if it doesn't calm down in a hurry i.e. by Wednesday I am heading back to pain clinic because no one in the family wants me to spend this Christmas season in this kind of pain. Every time I cough my spine feels like it wants to snap, and when I sneeze the pain is beyond words.

A cold I could live with, but what it has triggered is beyond human reason. So for the next few days please excuse me if I am far from festive. I love Christmas and desperately want to have some sort of celebration this year. But at the moment I can't even get out of bed to do the tree, or get my hands to be stable enough to wrap a present to any respectable level. So for now I am saying BAH HUMBUG, and hope by Friday I feel normal or we won't be getting to the market for the Christmas dinner fruit and vegetables.