I’ve been a bit strained with updating things the past few days because of a flare that I’m still on the climb from. I’d been doing really well health-wise even with the move, but the past few days I’ve been feeling really decrepit it’s a toss up between whether Monday when I wound up laying on the couch for almost an hour or today when I was able to get around but needed my cane were the worst.
It’s times like these I find myself somewhat bitterly sniping at the doctor who told me that my health condition wasn’t debilitating. I start snorting and going, “Not debilitating right! I can’t get off the couch! I can’t feel my hands enough to operate the can opener! How is this not debilitating?” Then I have to pull myself up and point out that yes, okay, right now I can’t feel my fingers properly but by tomorrow, if not in a few hours, I will more-than-likely have feeling back in my hands and be walking normally and there are a lot of people with different chronic conditions for whom something like that would be the sign of steady decline, that for them things would just be getting worse from that point, and for me that’s not the case.
That being said, I must also express how grateful I am to some people who prove to me that not everyone in the human race has lost their compassion and their manners. There’s a very nice lady who works at our new local Publix who brought me a cart when she saw me wrestling with the munchkin in the parking lot. He was trying to escape and I was having a hard time keeping hold of him considering the purse and the cane. She not only brought me the cart, she asked if it would be okay if she took him from me and put him in the cart so that he couldn’t take advantage of me shifting position to lift him to run away and get hit by a car.
Then after I got home one of our neighbors who I’ve actually never met before today was coming out of his apartment when I was bringing the bags in and helped me.
In case you’re wondering what possessed me to go shopping in this condition it was an emergency run, which couldn’t wait until my husband was up. I actually picked up most of the groceries a couple of days ago, but today I found out we had no garbage bags and almost no diapers. I thought we had more of both when I went to the store, but I mis-remembered. With a small child both of those are essentials!
Right now that my son’s gone to bed for the night I’m going to try and work on another gallery I’ve been commissioned to install. I got the framework and all the pages of the install uploaded, finished the upload this morning and have it activated. I just need to make the header and color up the background and theme.
I’m hoping my brain-fog clears up enough to get things straight. Not doing so well tonight given I decided I was going to reheat some leftovers and almost set the place on fire. Sparks in the microwave, actual flames on the food container, because I didn’t register when I broke the lid of the Styrofoam container that, you know, that paper…it’s got “silver” foil on it too…not going to mix well with the microwave…ah, well, at least I was right there watching it, and hadn’t walked away like I sometimes do.
I’m blown away by the progress that my entry on Blog for a Year has made in the past couple of days. I had 22 votes yesterday and 12 today. So, I’ve cruised on up. Here are my current standings:
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