Down with the Sickness

You know what sucks about being gluten free?

Nothing.

Except when I'm sick. Then, everything sucks.

What especially sucks is that cough drops, those industrial-strength-knock-the-cough-out ones, have gluten in them. So does most cold medicine.

Except these:

What's great about these is that they're gluten free. Also I can recognize every single ingredient in them.

What sucks about these is that one package is $9.39.

Also, the one thing I want when I'm sick is soup, and I can't have like 90% of commercially-produced soups. So, I'm left with chicken broth if I want it, or getting creative and making my own chicken soup, which I can easily do when I am not sick and just getting off of the couch isn't like running a marathon.

Speaking of running, I ran most of a 5k yesterday. You know how sometimes, your car might make a noise that is alarming enough to bring into a mechanic to take a look, and as soon as the mechanic pops the hood, the noise stops?

I feel like that might be what my heart was doing. It was being all haywire and then when I got to the doctor, it was all, "never mind. I'll behave now." I say this because my heart rate at no point went too high or feel like it was pounding out of my chest. At no point did I feel like I was going to throw up because my heart was beating too fast. I didn't get too hot, and my face did not turn red outside of what is normal for strenuous exercise.

I should have a heart scare and then get sick and have to take three weeks off from running more often. Also, I got close to a 40-minute time if I didn't sub-40 (which I'm pretty sure I didn't, but that's totally ok!) - I don't know because the race wasn't timed, which took a lot of the pressure off, I think.

Or maybe I just needed to hear from a medical professional that my heart is ok. It's something that I have been pretty scared about in the past (I've had a weird heart something since I was a teenager that has always felt too scary to get checked), so maybe it was reassurance that I needed. I still haven't gotten my echocardiogram back yet, so who knows. All I know is that yesterday was the best run I have had in years, and I feel pretty darn proud of myself for how far I have come.

Also, I have a full draft of my article done. 

Let me say that again.

I have a full first draft of my article done.

I'm ahead of schedule at this point, and after I meet with my research mentor on Wednesday and make my revisions, I'm going to be ready to submit.

That's all I have to say about that right now. I could go on a whole rant about work as self-care, because sometimes it is (especially in this case), but I'll save that for another day. :)