Just when I come home I have absolutely no energy left to get creative, and on the weekends I mostly sleep.

Yes. I'm with you on that!

Hugs for the rest of it, which is just so crap and what an enormous waste of time it is being ill. I have a slight cold (nothing like yours) which I'm thumping with enormous doses of paracetamol whenever it rears its ugly head. So far I've suppressed it enough to keep going and possibly it'll go completely once I've had a good rest this weekend. I hope your horrible cold takes a fancy to mine and they run off into the sunset together!