Taking the ASVAB, lungs are ill

I finally decided to get the ASVAB out of the way. I scheduled it last week, and then Saturday morning I woke up with fever and severe head pain. After suffering all weekend, knowing full well its a sinus infection, I went to the doctor and got on my antibiotics. Mucinex is an amazing medicine, it turned me from not being able to breath with intense sinus pressure to clear and tolerable in an hour.


After doing the first battery of paperwork today for four hours, I am left feeling conflicted. I am low on money and had to pay for a substitute teacher to teach my lessons, and any time money is tight I get very uptight about everything, its like having a period. So when they told me my PST would be a week from today, as opposed to three weeks like I was told last week, I am freaking. I cant breathe. I tried a little cardio today just to see how messed up my lungs are, and it was a joke, my heart was racing almost immediately.

I was worried when they told me three weeks, to be honest. I immediately went out and started doing sprints, I planned out a sprint regime for the next few weeks because my air is the key to my swimming, thats the only issue. When I hit that perfect heart rate, I can do my 500 yards, but if it spikes then I am fucked. I've felt that feeling. I do not think its going to be humanly possible to pass in a week, but I am going to try. Going to the gym first thing tomorrow and going to see if I can use my lungs, even a bit, and try to coax them into letting me run.

Mainly, I simply dont want to embarass myself. If I go out there and cant do half the things I am supposed to do, I am worried that everyone from the recruiters to the motivators are going to think I am full of it. Although, the recruiters did say today 'If you're sick, you're sick'. At least there is that level of understanding.