Sunday Ramblings

Yesterday and Friday I had high fevers all day. B brought me 6 orders of Jewish Penicillin (matzo ball soup) and tylenol and tissues. He also took Rose for a really good walk. S came by and offered to take Rose for the night, something Rose was very excited by. The thought of uninterrupted sleep was agreeable to me too.

I had weird dreams last night. Mostly of my family. Me traveling, visiting my mom, and her telling me that next Christmas, she and Dad are going up to visit his mother, in Pendleton. This surprised me in the dream (not because she's dead in RL, which I didn't remember) because mom's never liked her, said she was a cold loveless woman etc. In the dream mom said that it must be hard to live as she does, used to talking to people all the time, and now no one ever calls on her- not even family. This is where it gets weird- cut to a scene where my grandma is talking to a man in a chair. The main is Scatman Caruthers. He's got all these electrodes and stuff coming from his head. The phone starts to ring, providing the charge or electricity for whatever it is that she's doing to him. His reaction is one of relief, that it'll finally end and he won't have to listen to her talk anymore. Once the transformation is over, he's not dead really, but he now looks like something from the campy Batman series of the 70s- dressed in a man-cat outfit, and talking like a gay black man. Grandma then laughs and tells him to call her Meowma.

I told you it was weird.

I woke up this morning w/o a fever, so that's good I guess. I used my cpap with higher humidity last night to help my nose and sinuses, but woke up with a cough this morning. Maybe it wasn't such a good idea. I spent about 10 minutes in bed having a pity party for myself, wishing I had someone to take care of me, and check on me, and love on me. I know though that's part of me not feeling great, and I've got the next best thing- friends who care enough to bring me things, entertain Rose for a night, and check on me through email.

The vet called yesterday. They did an analysis on the feces I'd brought in. Turns out Rose doesn't have tapeworms, but whipworms. And from reading about it, the contaminated area where her poops are, are still possible of contaminating others if they ingest stuff in that area. So that means when I'm feeling better, I've got to shovel off and replace all that soil area where I've been dumping her feces in addition to hay etc. great. The vet also wants me to come by for a different med, and I was like, you mean the meds I paid for are no good? Can I just bring in the rest of what I have and trade it in for the new ones?? They said I could. We shall see.

I'm all sweaty this morning. I guess that's a good thing.