Just in case you ever think you might possibly be coming down with something, but you're not sure, I've made a handy little checklist for you:
If it's 72 degrees outside, and you dig out the little space heater and prop it to where it's on full blast from one foot away, you might be a little sick.
If it feels like someone stuffed a piece of cotton the size of Texas into your brain with another Alaskan-sized section up your nose? It's possible you're coming down with something.
If someone asks you your name and you have to think about it a moment, you might really not be feeling so well.
If you can't remember how to pronounce it, maybe you should lie down.
If you're lying down and you get up to go to the bathroom and "up" starts spinning and you wonder who put the rollercoaser in your bedroom? Probably, you're not doing so great.
If you make it to the bathroom and then forget which room you're in and why, or how to get back to your bed? You're pretty much toast.
If you do all the above and still get up and sit at the computer to do your taxes? You're officially brain dead and should just be put out of your misery.
It's been an interesting week. What I remember of it. I still have some sort of inner ear infection. If I sit still and don't move too much, nothing spins or tilts out of control. The antibiotics are working, I think, because the spinning is less. I did manage to finish the tax return (and on time). Only, I discovered I entered one thing wrong (I reversed two numbers). I have always had a bit of dyslexia with numbers, and I typically double and triple check everything, and I still missed this. I'm trying not to freak out about it (I had already mailed the return), but I am secretly freaking out, because I should have paid a little more in taxes. It's not a huge difference, but I'm in the middle of finishing an audit with the IRS, and I definitely don't want to repeat the process for another year. I'm going to my CPA tomorrow and asking her if I need to amend this return (a sure-fire way to trigger and audit, though, is to amend the return.)
That sounds awful! I hope you're well on your way to recovery.
Posted by: Amanda at April 16, 2004 09:31 AM