The week before I was planning to arrive at Badlands National Park for my Artist in Residence position I, again, started to feel unwell. This time it wasn't my gall bladder, but a bit of congestion, stuffiness and an itchy throat. As the day progressed I also started to feel a bit warm. On Tuesday I ended up with a fever over 100.
Immediately I started to use some Thieves blend of essential oils from Young Living on my chest and I would put a couple drops in water to gargle with and drink. I also used some peppermint oil from Young Living on my chest and the bottom of my feet and put them both in my diffuser. By morning, fever was gone, however, after being awake for a few hours it came back. By the time I left work (didn't stay too long) my fever was nearing 102 so I went back into my room, continued the routine with the oils and diffuser and didn't do much of anything the rest of the day. By Thursday morning I was once again feeling much better and this time it didn't come back. It did take a few more days to get all my energy back though, but that's better than being totally out for all those days.
The only thing I could think of that I caught was I had seen my brother the Thursday before and that day he was diagnosed with a viral bronchitis, I believe. He fought it for nearly a week before going to the doctor who gave him an inhaler to use as there wasn't much that could be done about a virus.
In the end, due to the gall bladder and fever I lost nearly 1 week of my last 3 weeks to prepare either from not being able to do anything for 4 days to being exhausted after just a little effort as my body attempted to heal itself.
On top of all that, I also had computers not working properly so I had to spend time getting them working again. My son was supposed to fly home the day before I left, but his flight was canceled and I moved my leaving day back a day so I could see him for part of a day before leaving.
The day that I left I had to complete invoices and preparing pictures for a portrait client that waited until the last minute and another client that asked me to print a couple pictures from her daughter's wedding from the CD the photographer gave her because Shutterfly didn't give her what she wanted (granted, they didn't have much to work with) and I didn't finish those until that day. I had a couple things go wrong at work that I had to clear up. I managed to leave at 4pm rather than earlier in the day.
Yes, things went crazy, but in the end, it is all worth it and I will continue to have a great time here. Just need to adjust to a different schedule as the sun is rising near 6am already and I do want some sunrise pictures...
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