Hello Everyone.

I've been sick as a dog since about the 3rd of the month. It started with
the old "I don't feel so great" routine and by that night I had a 103F temp
and my ears hurt. The next few days were a blur except that my daughter kept
stopping in to check on me. I went to the doctor on the 9th and he gave me
an antibiotic and some other stuff. Throat was dry and raw but
didn't/doesn't really hurt except when swallowing and I had an itchy rash
across my chest (maybe from the Motrin my daughter kept giving me to keep
the fever down to a reasonable 101?) and a nasty cough. Then I had the
granddaughter here Sunday - Monday (15th- 16th) and I took her to her doctor
as she had a sore throat, stuffy nose and a cough. (Mom had to work,
step-father away on a business trip and the kids were off from school.) The
17th my husband had a routine colonoscopy. So I had to be well enough to
drive him home and that was on the other side of the metropolis where we
live, about an hour's drive. So here I was still dog sick with him in a
germy hospital. I'm not saying the hospital is not clean but I think that
doctor's offices and hospitals are about the germiest places I know. They
could not complete the colonoscopy on my husband as they could not get the
scope in very far. So now he has to return next week for a barium test. They
did say they saw nothing just couldn't make the turn in the intestine with
the scope.  Wed. (18th) I'm back at the doctor's office for me. Fever
dropped to low grade but still feeling like I'd been dragged through the
dirt for a few miles. Throat was no better, glands swollen and I could
barely walk as my ligament/tendons/muscles in groin and legs were killing
me. You would have thought I'd just done a 100 deep knee bends. If a chair
didn't have arms I couldn't stand up. Think about that - potties don't come
with arms. LOL And cold symptoms along with a nasty case of diarrhea (maybe
from the antibiotic?). Okay, now I had the doctor stumped. He swore he was
trying very hard to wave his magic wand over me and fix my problems but it
wasn't working. He gave me a low dose Sudafed - dangerous Rx for me with BP
problems. So it is take BP and then take Sudafed. So far so good. He called
me late Fri night to make sure I was going to survive this weekend. His
thought is that I layered my granddaughter's cold on top of my already
compromised physical condition. So rather than taking more antibiotics he
just wants me to stay on the Sudafed and Musinex , cough med, Pedialyte plus
take steamy showers and stay in bed and if I have to I can use a saline
solution for my nasal passages. He wants me back in there either Mon or
Tues. I have no energy. The Sudafed is drying my mouth and throat and I
think that is keeping my throat raw. I'm drinking so much water he thinks I
got my electrolytes out of balance thus the leg pains. The good news is I've
lost 10 pounds the last time I checked.

Life does go on so in the wee hours of Sat (21st) morning  I am awake and I
hear this strange noise. I'm thinking "what the heck are our neighbors
doing?" (Doesn't everyone have at least one neighbor like that?) So I looked
out the window but then realized that it wasn't them it was on the street
and it was a drunk driver hitting cars. I grabbed the phone and dialed 911
and told them. I hollered to my sleeping husband that our car was about to
be hit - as if his being awake was going to prevent it? Was my superhero
going to leap from our second story window and stop the on-coming vehicle
and save out poor little Ford Escort? LOL With the phone still in my hand I
went down the stairs with adrenalin speed and out onto the porch just in
time to see our neighbor's car being shoved within a few feet of our Escort
before coming to a stop. The drunk then backed up and drove away but I got
his license plate and told the cops where he went. Yep, they got him but he
managed to wipe out 4 cars on our street - just not ours this time. Since
I'm the only one in the neighborhood who actually saw the cars being hit
guess who will be subpoenaed to court?

Oh, and my clothes dryer has to be replaced - it's in bad shape. Washing
machine is not far behind it. They are both old. That's okay as I'm too sick
to do laundry anyway.
((Hugs to everyone!))
Bev