Thanks to the well-wishers and particularly Mom and Oz and Deb who made home visits.
One thing I’ll say about being confined to quarters for four days: it’s boring as hell.
Even food tastes bad when everything tastes of snot. (sorry about that image, but it’s true.)
I’ll tell one amusing story about being sick and too unwell to go out on Friday and Saturday night.
My eyes have been very liquid, runny as if in tears, and it’s made it hard for me to read the internet and I’ve been reduced to watching some TV, including last night’s SNL.
So, I went to the local CVS drug store to get some cough medicine. Trouble is, I don’t drink alcohol even in medicine. Yep, I don’t even use mouthwash with alcohol and get a brand that’s alcohol free. So, Nyquil is out since it’s got more alcohol than liquor store beer or most wines.
But, when I got to the drug store, my eyes were so blurry I couldn’t read the labels to find the ones with no alcohol (almost all of them use alcohol).
So, I had to go home, take out my contacts, take an antihistamine, and go back to the drug store.
Kinda amusing that I’d be so particular, but I also realized that all I had to do was ask the pharmacist when I was there the first time.
You don’t think so good when your head is full of snot.
The sinus headache was one of the worst parts of this. I didn’t want to move out of bed at first because my sinuses were banging gongs inside.
The other bad part was deep fatigue and body ache combined with sore ribs from coughing spasms.
Sleeping helped and by Saturday, I felt much much better. But, I knew better than to get out because I was just too weak to socialize. Today, I’m just bored. I just finished reading 560 comments on Politico’s website about the Obama “bitter” remarks. I can’t say I read anything worth reading, I was just reading one idiot blasting another with a soupcon of Republican shadenfreude thrown in now and again.
I think I read and care more about politics than anyone else I know. I have reached the limits, though. I’m just plain tired of the Dem party primary and wish it would be over and done. Right this minute, I don’t even care who wins or how, I just wish the crap would end. I’d be happy to stick with it if we were talking about the war in Iraq or the economy or even health care, but we aren’t. I don’t care about Hillary’s misspeaking about Bosnia and I don’t care about Obama’s “Level II Kinsleyan Gaffe”. I don’t care about “street money” in Philly or Evan Bayh in downstate Indiana or Obama’s 25 point lead in North Carolina or Hillary’s 13 point lead in Puerto Rico.
I’m every bit as sick and tired of talking heads on television as I am of blogger bombast.
And, even though I’m better and plan on being at work tomorrow, I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired.
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