I guess I should take you all to last weekend. My schedule was such that again I was working the fulltime gig from 10pm until 6am Sunday followed by the part time gig from 10:30am Sunday until 6:30pm. That leaves 4 1/2 hours between jobs, even less if I decide to go home and Sunday buses are less frequent on weekends than their weekday counterparts. There is a bus that sort of runs between both jobs however, so I opted for that one instead of going home. I used part of the 4.5 hours doing some grocery shopping as well, picking up some snacks for work.
The second gig was uneventful enough, much like the overnight gig before it, and so I got home, made some dinner and before you know it I was out like a light. Quite a bit actually. I slept all the way through Monday, until my alarm went off to go in Monday night. Another uneventful 10pm-6am later and I am back home trying to sleep again. With a little bit of food and some YouTube for entertainment I nodded off somewhere around noon.
Then the Tuesday night alarm goes off around 7pm. I continue to sleep until about 8pm, which I am sure annoyed my neighbors (an alarm going off for an hour from 7pm-8pm, please) and when I got up I was dizzy. It wasn’t a dizziness I could shake off either, I needed the wall to keep me erect (enter flaccid boner jokes here). But for whatever reason I couldn’t stand up without help. I thought maybe I slept wrong or something and opted to try napping it off. So I thought I reset my alarm for another half hour but apparently I didn’t because it never went off again. Instead I woke up around 2am, still wobbly and way late for work even if I could have made it in.
So I took a hard pass on work Tuesday night, hoping that I would feel better by Wednesday morning, as I had the first of my two COVID shots scheduled. I went back to sleep until about 7am, then 8am and finally got up at 8:30, threw some clothes on and hurried out the door as my shot was scheduled for 9:15. Thankfully I didn’t have to wait long for the bus,it was there within minutes of my arrival at the bus stop, which was good as I was walking I was leaning to my right a lot, I fell off the sidewalk like 3 times.
Part of me was wondering if this was a COVID symptom, but I figured if that was the case I would find out soon enough, like right before my shot. But nothing in my pre shot testing (if you consider having your temperature taken testing) presented as pro COVID, so I got shot #1 (of 2), was told to wait 15 minutes and then go about my day. Since I had no side effects I waited like 5 minutes, then walked to Getgo on the South Side and got me a cherry coffee.
I then walked over to Aldi, bought a few things and went home where I made lunch and went back to bed. I woke up and my dizziness was pretty much gone so not really sure what it was, a COVID thing, a high blood pressure thing, a working too many hours thing, or even a thing which defies description, it just was a thing,.
