Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

I feel like crying today.

A couple of weeks ago, my nephrologist called and told me that my 24 hour urine collect came back with high protein levels, high sodium levels and high uric acid levels. I had an ultrasound and get the results on Wednesday.

Last week I had an appointment with my rheumatologist. He diagnosed me with Osteopena, Rheumatoid Arthritis and Hashimoto's. (I've had the Fibro diagnosis for a little over two months now.) He told me that the blood tests for Lupus were never run, but he's confident to say that I have Lupus as well. He ordered an ultrasound of my thyroid, as well as x-rays of my spine and blood work. I was frustrated because all of these tests he told me were being run 2+ months ago (except the ultrasound) when I was there...and they weren't. I left because I was late for work and needed to get back. (I'm also switching rheumatologists because I am frustrated with the current one.)

Fast forward to this weekend. My youngest lost her voice. She had a slight fever and so I kept her home on Friday. She started coughing on Saturday. By Sunday, she was feeling better, had her voice back, etc.

This morning I woke up and my throat hurts, my whole body aches and I'm sleeping more often than I'm awake. My head is pounding, my eyes hurt...it's bad. I'm having issues even just getting out of bed. I do have a low grade fever.

I'm sure it's worse because I have auto-immune disorders, but seriously? I had to call off work. They're requiring that I see a doctor and get a note before I come back.

I work in a day care with 2 year olds. I just started Wednesday. I'm seriously starting to think this whole working 8 hours a day chasing little ones (half of which have runny noses) isn't the brightest idea. I don't know what to do.

At the very least, today I sleep, tomorrow I see my doctor and Wednesday I go back to work.

Any advise, or words of encouragement?

Colds happen. Sometimes, they can be dangerous, especially with sensitive groups and with small children. Other times, they are just irritating.

There seem to be two schools of thought when calling in sick, especially when others count on a warm body to fulfill certain functions. Some employers do not want the infection to spread-others need to be able to count on the warm body. It sounds as if your employer is of the later.

I called the new rheumy today to set up an appointment. She told me they needed my records faxed over first...so I called the current doc to have them faxed. The nurse asked me if I had gotten the orders for PT (water therapy) and the paperwork for disability. I told her no and she said that they would mail it. She also said they'd fax over the information immediately. I asked her what the disability paperwork was, and she said the doctor wants me to quit my job and stay home to work on getting better.

This guy has seen me twice, and now he wants me to go back to sitting at home all day?! UGH! I don't feel well, I want to cry, I want to scream...and I'm too sick and in the early stages of a flare to do anything.

AAAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKK!