I’ve been sick for damn near the last week. I had a wisdom tooth pulled about a month ago, and Tuesday I started getting an infection in the same place. By Wednesday morning, I was all swollen up, couldn’t eat, and couldn’t sleep because I always sleep on my left side. So I spent Wednesday to Friday off work, on antibiotics and Loritab’s, sleeping 15 hours a day. At least by Saturday, I could eat real food, and indulged in a greasy unhealthy hamburger.
So fast forward to today, Monday. I go to work, and found out after being there an hour I have to do a thing called a pull-off test on Asphalt. This involves using epoxy to bind pipe caps to an asphalt core, so I can use a scale and a device to measure the force it takes to literally pull off the asphalt. When we were first shown this test at our district lab, of course they had a fume hood to mix their epoxy in, so the fumes weren’t overwhelming. But in the test today, I only had a small back room. I don’t know if it was from the vapors from the epoxy curing, or having to use a hotplate to heat up the epoxy to remove it from the pipe caps, but ever since then my nose has been draining. My sinus’s are all congested, and if I don’t have a roll of toilet paper near by, I’m screwed.
I’m really hoping it isn’t the epoxy that is fucking with my nose. The trailers we use for our Asphalt labs are small, and I can’t stand to be in them if it is indeed the epoxy screwing with me.
