I ended up getting a cold on the 15th of October. That day I was suddenly struck with every muscle in my body aching and a headache. My mom said I was likely getting a cold. The next day I had a cold and told her she jinxed me in semi-good humor. I know colds and I know flues. I have a remedy against them – water, Advil, sleep, hot showers and hot soup. Emphasis goes to the heat of the last two.
I skipped the hot soup this time since I had naught. Instead I wandered aimlessly about the house since sleep would not come. My body ached so I did stretches and did a few things to quicken my blood flow. In other words extremely light exercise. It cleared my head and I felt a bit better. My neck, shoulders and hips were still a pain though so off to the shower. Instead I took a bath since I didn’t trust my balance completely. Hot water, soak and self given massage. Usually my muscles are not so tense they hurt when I massage them. No. This one elicited winces and small grunts of pain. After I believed I did well in turning my muscles into tenderized meat, I left, took Advil, drank water and decided to see if I could sleep. I slept.
I woke up, felt better and prayed that when night time came again it wouldn’t become bad again. The night came and at most I ached. Thus, I had a self-massage and hot shower with Advil. The next day after sleeping some, I found I felt relatively fine, just nauseated and a bit out of it mentally. My parents decided to order in that night. Chinese. Yay. After Friday passed, I was myself again.
The next week went as usual. I learned my brother did indeed got his job back at the newspaper. I know little about my sister other than her talking to my dad one night and more or less upsetting him until he was sick. My e-brother seems to being doing as usual.
I’ve kept in touch with my friend in Pennsylvania, and as usual, I still wish her life could be better and I worry about her as well as her sister since she’s apparently depressed. Their father really isn’t doing so great and while I feel apathy whenever she mentions him, I know she cares for him and thus merely hope things get better.
Shred has had better times too. He’s stressed with school… ‘has more than a year to finish and then he’ll deal with looking for a job or getting one. He has other problems as well like his ability to sleep and his hair falling out – pretty much stress related. Sigh…
The past days have been mainly reading and trying to draw for me. I have three drawings in progress at the moment. That is a first for me. I’m a nut job apparently. I have no idea when I’ll finish them. My cat meanwhile seems to still have worms so I spent five dollars on a small single pill. I felt sorry for him since my mom and I crammed it down his throat right after he had a painful experience with dull claw clippers. I apologized to him profusely afterward.
Well, another week started. My dad has been having busy days at his job… he’s been absent from home during lunch time, which is when he stops by to let his dog out, feed him and feed himself. He’s been coming home tired. Meh… Mom on the other hand seems to be healing fine. She lost her garden though. It upset her greatly of course since she worked on it all summer. She lost it due to the dogs. They trampled and dug up her plants. Her being upset over the dogs, upset my dad and he was in a fowl mood with her for a while. Once that passed, her life seems pretty much how it always is.
Anyway, that is all. All left for this month is Halloween and my dad’s dog going to the vet on the same day.