Sick

For the first time during our master's program I felt like I couldn't keep up. As you all saw in class on Wednesday, I hurt my back earlier in the week. My husband has been gone to Florida all week with the baseball team, so lifting our 8 month old daughter was a bit of a challenge. However, as my back got better in the latter part of the week, I noticed my throat was really scratchy. By yesterday morning, it was so swollen that I could not talk. I was running a fever and felt awful. I went to the doctor and found out I have strep throat. UGH! Plus, my daughter is coming down with something as well because she has a runny nose, nasty cough and fever. So I have spent the past 24 hours trying to feel better. I couldn't help but keep thinking about the master's work I was not getting done. I forced myself to go online this morning to try to keep up. Hopefully my posts make sense since I am still feeling pretty out of it. I guess the nice thing about online learning is that I am able to type this while sitting in my jammies and dealing with strep throat. Sitting in a classroom setting would probably be quite unbearable at this point. This has also given me a different perspective on single parents. The past week was a blur because I felt all I was doing was running from daycare to school to daycare while trying to get housework done at night and care for my daughter. My husband will definitely be getting the "I appreciate you SO much" speech when he gets back today! Just thought I would share my frustrations as it was a new experience for me to feel like I was truly falling behind.