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So, let's go over how I've been over the last couple weeks.  We know that I had my bladder stone procedure on the 4th. I was wicked sensitive and sluggish for a week or so after that but I was up and about the day after, including having a very busy weekend that week.  I felt nasty though and spent a lot of time on the couch.  

A couple days after the procedure, my husband got sick and I mean sick.  Stuff coming out both ends, confined to the bed or couch, sweats and chills, nightmares.  So here I was, still recovering from my thing and all of a sudden I had to take care of him. I took him to his doctor's nurse who happened to be working at the walk in that day, they took a full blood panel and x rays of his chest and everything and it was diagnosed as a virus because they couldn't find anything else wrong.  He was supposed to take off like 5 days from work per nurse's orders but decided he felt better after like 2 days and went back.  Also didn't stick to the BRAT diet as recommended.  

Meanwhile, I had a mild cold but nothing I couldn't handle.  It kind of sucked on top of feeling shitty from the procedure.  A couple days after my husband's nastiness, I got something similar. I had taken a Sudafed that day for congestion.  It helped, but I forgot that I'm mildly allergic to Sudafed and my abdomen was breaking out in an itchy rash.  That evening, long after I'd taken the Sudafed I was drinking a wine spritzer with ginger ale and we watched Breaking Bad.  I started feeling dizzy and decided to go to bed.  That night I dreamed about Breaking Bad for what seemed like all night.  Just over and over, the characters were in my head replaying the episode (and it wasn't even an exciting episode, LOL).  I had the headache from hell and it was spreading down my neck and it was horrible.  It felt like I was lying on concrete and I barely slept.  I almost woke my husband up in the middle of the night to take me to the hospital, but I held off.  In the morning I felt better but had residual pain in my head and my neck still hurt like hell.  That was a couple nights ago.  

Since then I've been taking it easy.  I haven't had much of an appetite since the procedure and my eyes are also wicked dry and sensitive so I can't even really enjoy watching tv or being on the computer.  Last night I played a little bit of TWD season 2 but I wasn't really able to enjoy it and my neck was still killing me so I took some Nyquil and went to bed around 9.  I woke up a couple times during the night, once when my husband came to bed a couple hours after me, and once in the middle of the night and the pain in my neck was gone.

I woke up today and felt so much better.  But guess what! My husband is sick again.  Turns out he could barely function and he had to get our son to help him get dressed and everything because he didn't want to wake me up.  He feels nauseous and poopy but he says he has to go to work because he's on call this week.  I hope he's doing okay.

Meanwhile my son has also has a cold, nothing bad enough to keep him out of school, but he's wicked stuffy and has a sore throat.

Oh yeah, I also had a killer sore throat.  It was weird though, it kept feeling like the pain was moving around.  It was on the left side of my throat and then in the back and it felt like something was stuck there and if I just swallowed enough it would go away so I was swallowing a lot and it didn't help.  Yesterday morning I was so fed up I was crying and I prayed to the powers that be to just take away my sore throat.  And then I took a tablespoon of children's tylenol.  LOL.  I had to go to the grocery store and I found some of my favorite ginger beer there (it's non-alcoholic, it's like ginger ale but actually has real ginger in it and it's pretty strong) and I drank 2 of those yesterday and I picked up some sushi and had that with some miso soup for lunch.  I'm not sure what worked, the praying, the ginger beer, the medicine, or some combination, but my sore throat went away.

So, that's been my life!  I feel so much better today but I'm scared that it's going to come back in some shape or form, especially with my husband being sick again.  Keep that shit away from me!

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 I told my husband I still need to buy something for one uncle and my mom (and send an amazon e-gift card but that's easy) and he said "Wow, you're really cutting it close!" Well, I'm not really, because there's just under a week before Christmas and I'm done shipping things.  Most years, I'm paying through the nose for next day shipping, praying it all gets there on time, still tracking down addresses, probably still haven't wrapped most of my things. On top of that, I usually have nightmares about having to give away my own possessions as gifts because I waited too long to buy things.  No nightmares about that this year.  

I've wrapped almost everything, except the mugs I got my mom and dad and of course the things I still have to buy.  But that's only 4 presents I have to wrap.  I LOATHE wrapping.  Be prepared for a pun.  I cannot WRAP my head around wrapping presents.  No matter how hard I try, I cut the paper too small, or crooked, and it ends up just a tad too loose, and the ends aren't right, and I've totally gone on ribbon strike for years now and now I just slap on one of those bows with the adhesive on it.  Wrapping presents is up there with ironing and scraping down the sides of a bowl on the list of things my mom tried to teach me that just wouldn't stick.  Yeah, I don't get it either.  It seems to have something to do with fine motor skills.  I give up.

To get an idea of how tragic this was for my mom, she prides herself on some things. Some of them being: looking neatly pressed in her clothes, making wrapped presents look nice, and cooking.  I can imagine her thinking "This is not my child!" when it turned out I was no good at the finer points of these tasks.  I turned out to be a better than average cook, but I still cannot iron, or wrap presents.  My mother used to make her own wrapping paper.  I kid you not.  One of her hobbies was marbling paper and she'd use it to wrap presents.  It was beautiful, but she didn't get it that the person usually didn't care about the wrapping paper.

What is my point with this entry? I don't know, other than the fact that I am feeling better than I have in weeks, my husband is sick and went to bed and I feel just too damn good to go to bed already but it also kind of sucks to be sitting down here alone so I'm trying to keep busy.

Oh! Who watched the OUAT winter finale--I was crying! (I may be getting my period) And how about that character spoiler for next year in the preview? I don't shout at the tv often, but when I do, I say "Are you kidding me?!"