Mystery solved.................

I am pretty sure I have (finally) put two and four together and came up with the reason why I have been so un-producive these last few days.

Tuesday evening, I went for a nice four mile run, but once I got home I felt like crap. Turns out I was running a small fever. I blamed the fever and minor sore thoat on the fact that I had done my hour and a half last Saturday run without a hat on and must have gotten a chill. Tylenol keeps the fever down, and I didn't run the last two days as a precaution, but that is getting old fast.

Last night, after I had gone to bed, I turned over on my elbow, and noticed it felt a little painful. When I touched it it felt rough so I got up to look at it in the mirror. My entire elbow was covered in a rash. Weird. I went back to bed and laid there wondering what I could have dipped my elbow in that would create the rash.

This morning the rash coveres my entire body! FINALLY I figured my symptoms must be telling me I was having an allergic reaction to the antibiotic I am taking. In my defense, I don't usually take medication, and before this surgery, I have never had a reaction to any medication or food. When I re-read the pamphlet that comes with the medicine, there it was, "fever, rash, sore throat, fatigue." The worst part is I had read this pamphlet when I first started the medicine (that is how I found out I couldn't tan while using it), but the fever sore throat thing being linked to being ouside without a hat made sense so my mind didn't venture to look for other causes. Does this make me narrow minded? I prefer to call it focused.

So, I have stopped the drug and I am sure doing so will clear up everything else in a day or so, and if I am lucky, I might just get something done next week. It could happen...