Feel so tired lately. I'm in my 12-day stretch of my work cycle, having worked straight through the weekend. On Sunday, I started getting a scratchy throat, and Monday I had to work an extra evening shift to 10pm, and it was crazy busy. I kinda knew it was going to be a bad day when I walked into the ER at 9am and there were no consults pending. And then I get paged at 10:30am, and there were already 8. To give you an idea, over an entire day, we usually get <10. From then until 10pm, I was basically running from patient to patient (each consult usually takes me from 45-90 minutes). By the time I left, we were on #27 and counting...

When I got home ~11pm, I went straight to bed. I was hoping to be better Tuesday, but now I'd developed full on productive cough, myalgias, and general malaise. But I wasn't throwing up or anything, so there was no way I was gonna call in sick over something sissy like a little cough. Habits from residency die hard: unless you have IV lines sticking out of your arms keeping you bedbound, then you sure as heck are well enough to work, and even then, IV's can be put on those poles with wheels, so even that excuse might not be good enough.

By the time work ended, I was feeling pretty awful, so I had to miss small group again (missed last week also since I had to work an evening shift to 10pm then, too). I went home and just stayed in bed all night. Phew, I can't remember the last time I went to bed at 6pm.

But it appears to have paid dividends, because the next day, I was feeling better, and by today, I was feeling better still. And finally my sinus fullness is gone. It always makes my eyeballs feel heavy, making it hard to study. So that's almost 3 whole days gone with almost nothing to show for it but regret at how much material I could have covered if I hadn't gotten sick, but o welp. Better to get sick now, then be sick during the actual day of the Boards. Fweee, I still feel tired though.