Oh Boy, that was a pretty miserable weekend... I haven't felt so lousy in a long time. Looks like what happened was that I had an allergic reaction to one of the antibiotics I was taking. This was surprising because I had taken the drug twice before, but I guess allergies can happen at any time.

It all started with a skin infection in my bum that was rather painful. I had real trouble sitting down for a few days. So I got prescribed the two antibiotics normally taken for this. The antibiotics worked and my skin infection got better, but what was weird was that I kept having a low grade fever, which I had to suppress with Ibuprufen during this time. It was a bit strange that the fever persisted even as the infection got better. The other wierd thing that happened was that I started getting insomnia. I stopped being able to sleep for more than 30-45 minutes at night after 2-3 days on the antibiotics. Last night was the first time I slept normally in about 5 nights. All of these small things were kind of irritating, but not debilitating. On friday morning after the second or third night of insomnia, I got up with a very strange rash all over my body. chest, arms legs.. quite spectacular. It wasn't itchy, but my skin felt all prickly. I began to get paranoid that I had Toxic Shock syndrome, because the whole time I had a fever, I was worried that the bacteria had gone systemic. We consulted our dermatologist, who suggested a drug rash reaction. Unfortunately, it was right after I had taken another dose of Septra, the nasty antibiotic.. So I kept feeling worse for the rest of the day... It was pretty miserable. Thank goodness for me, baby was in well behaved mood, because mommy was working from 4pm - 1-2am. I stayed in bed while the baby sitter looked after him until 7pm. I managed to put him to sleep by about 7.45pm and he slept all the way through the night!

Another night of insomnia for friday, Saturday I was feeling a little bit better, the rash had gone down a bit, but by then I have had about 4-5 nights of almost no sleep at all and was beginning to get a bit disorientated. Poor mommy had two people to look after :-) Another sleepless night on Saturday night, maybe a little bit better, I slept several 30-45 minute stretches. I started to get desperate and started researching sleep medication... I had already tried melatonin, benadryl, warm milk and etc. with no success.. But finally, on Sunday morning, after passing baby over to mommy at about 8.30am, I slept for about one and a half hour straight, and felt much more normal in the morning. I even managed to go for a walk with mommy and baby in the afternoon.

Last night, to my greatest relief, I went to bed at 9.30 pm and slept soundly until mommy came back and baby woke up at the same time at about 2.30am. For days, I had been dreaming about sleeping more than 2 hours.. I couldn't believe that I had finally had a decent nights sleep! I woke up this morning at 5am and I feel pretty much back to normal.. Just a bit of a leg cramp, probably the last bit of side effects going through my system..