Happiness is watching the spaced out joy on a puppy’s face as he chews a rawhide 10 times too big for him. Happiness is the 90 minutes of peace this buys me.
The sucky think about being ‘mostly recovered’ from your alien strep infection is that you forget that you still need to rest. I went out this morning, ran a million errands, came home to do laundry and I’m exhausted. So I’ll rest a bit and then continue on with my Saturday ‘chores’.
It’s been classic October weather, blustery, chilled, rainy and grey. It’s sort of depressing, but it also puts me in the mood to cook. Tomorrow is total roast chicken dinner day. The weather reminds me that I can’t do another winter in Minnesota, i just don’t have it in me to deal with it.
I finally harangued T-Mobile into giving me the big big discount I wanted on the phone I wanted. Had them note the credit on my account and headed to the store. They don’t have the phone in stock, they don’t know when it will be in stock. Dammit. It’s the cheapest phone they have that has the 2 features I need, custom ring for each caller (not call groups) and the ability to be used in Ireland. It also has a camera, can’t seem to avoid that, so I guess I’ll be camera phoning it and you know that what means, another empty promise to post more pictures on here.
Okay, enough pointless rambling. Laundry, nap, knitting and roasted pork ribs for dinner.
No Relief Yet
Those things I ponder have not yet been resolved. They eat at my brain constantly. I can’t make a decision because I don’t trust my motivation in this situation.
Also, the insomnia’s come back full force. I now have 5 uninterrupted hours with my brain every night. It’s not helping.
I need some relief from my own head.
Curative
You know what cures strep throat? Hot pot bibimbop! That’s right, tasty Korean food. Of course your dinner companion has to be someone who notices the convection currents in his soup.
So there you have it, Korean food and science nerds and suddenly the whole world seems brighter.
And, on a brighter note, 36 hours ago I had a doctor threatening to lock me up in a hospital and jam a tube down my throat. I think that every case that requires hospitalization should have a related number of pills that you can take to avoid it. Yesterday I had to take 11 pills to keep me out of the hospital, if you had to go in for say heart surgery there might be 187 pills that you would have to take. Day surgery would only be like 53 pills. See, medical science needs to catch up and make pills to solve everything. That way, those of us who never ever want to have to stay in the hospital won’t have to! This is me, always thinking.
Shoot me now
Just got back from urgent care. Damn. I have a ‘particularly aggressive’ strep infection. The doctor was worried about he getting some sort of fucked up abcess on my tonsil and wanted to admit me to the hospital. I talked him out of it and promised to take the pills.
I’m kind of stupid. Taking pills when your right tonsil looks like Salvadore Dali’s golf ball isn’t just hard work, it’s torure. I had to take 2 steroid pills, 1 giant antibiotic, 1 giant pain killer. All of these things are to be taken on a full belly as they will upset your belly. It hurts so fucking much to eat, i barely downed the little hash brown i cooked up. I took my pills, whimpering the whole time.
Twenty minutes later, cue me running to the bathroom to throw it all up. I have to go do the whole process over now, try to eat, swallow the pills only this time I dont want to throw up, but I also know how much it hurts to take these pills. I’m avoiding.
Update…
Managed to eat Malt-o-Meal and that was enough to keep the pills down. Tried to nap, but Ghengis decided he needed to pee every 20 minutes. Highlight was when Alan brought me ice cream after work. Please click the link, go to his website and leave comments telling him to update more often.
my mind is all wandering stupid on painkillers (PainKillaZ yo!). gonna put my head down.
My Shopping List
1/2 gallon Tropicana Immunity Defense orange juice
1 can chicken and wild rice soup
1 can chicken potato soup
1 box sugar free popsicles
1 box Tylenol sinus, cold and flu severe congestion formula, daytime
1 box Robitussin cold and flu, nighttime
1 box Emer-gen-c vitamin C supplement
1 box Frosty Paws ice cream for dogs
What does this tell you? I’m sick and I’m going to try to bribe the dog to give me peace with ice cream.