March 31, 2025 Monday--5am

Hello!

Saying I was exhausted turned out to be quite the understatement.  I slept from 11:30pm Sunday night till 8am Monday morning and was back to sleep in two hours!  Slept from 10am till 5pm and this continued for three days with a 100.4 degree temp and aching all over.  Since I always ache all over and am tried, it was the temp and excess of those issues that gave it away...I was truly sick-sick--lol!  Down for the count.

We did get some snow, but I can't even remember what day that was.  Not enough to totally cover the brown grass and it didn't last long. 

Allie slept a lot, too.

We had the loudest sign of spring arrive.  The cowardly Grackle bullies are back.  I much prefer the robins--lol!  ;)

I thought I had the flu, but then a few days in I got the constant peeing thing...so then I thought it was a UTI again that maybe I had been fighting off from the poke n' peek and taking the preventative antibiotics.  By Saturday it really felt like a bad UTI.  Sunday Leah brought me to Urgent Care,,,busy place.  Two hours later I was home.  Only slightly elevated bacteria and such.  Not enough that they would normally even run a culture, but the nice lady I got said she'd have a culture run so Dr. Agamawi, my urologist, could check out the culture.  If it's positive we can make a decision on antibiotics.  Won't know for maybe up to three days. Left a message for Dr. Agamawi so she knows what is going on.

Then--after I get home I open up my laptop and the keyboard isn't working.  This happened once before, I remember.  So texting back and forth with Dagan and Leah--got the keyboard going again (F4 + power button together and hold) because Dagan remembered.  Only to find out I then had lost the second window where I save all my streaming channels!  (Honestly, I shouldn't even be allowed to touch electronics when I feel like crap--lol!)  Then, trying to reopen that window, got stuck on a page that seemed over-enlarged--no way out of it.  Leah was out shopping with the boys and suggested she stop by to see if she could fix it.  Yes, please!

So they stopped and she did figure it out.  She even rebuilt the lost window with all the streaming channels!  I had stored all of them elsewhere from previously losing them.  Apparently Leah and I have both saved them all!  This is obviously not the first time this has happened--lol!

Funny, Leah and I had talked about my laptop when we spent so much time waiting at the clinic.  I had recently warned them that my laptop had been acting up more and more the past few months...having brain farts, not able to listen well, and having memory issues--as we often do as we age--lol!  Then I get home from the clinic and the keyboard isn't working.  At all.  Man!  That's what I get for gossiping behind its back.  ;)

The boys and I were having a good time while Mama was working on my laptop.  Leah had to run to her sister's so she asked if I would like the boys to stay here while she did that.  Sure!  So I got some extra time with the boys, too.  Always a silver lining. :) 

Anyways, been a week where Allie and I took it easy.  I finally was forced to wash clothes so I had something to wear...and to run the dishwasher.  Haven't put everything away yet, but things are clean. :)  Oh, and they were actually going to have another IKEA party Sunday but Payton was sick and gave it to his dad, Chris...so no partying for the sick.  (Don't I know it!)

I did no journaling, no letter writing...nothing much really...all week.  Watched a lot of videos.  Kept up with blogs and vlogs.  Spent a lot of the time irritating Allie...who won't sleep with me on my chair if I have a blanket over me (hates blankets for some reason)...and when I was so sick for those first three days she ran out of food and it took a lot of her complaining before I caught on to the travesty and betrayal I had forced her to endure.  (There were several kernels left in the bowl, BTW.)  Such is the life in the house of the sick.  Allie's life could have been a lot better if she didn't refuse to step on comfy, lush blankets.  Her choice...and I had to make mine.  She lost this rare time.  I would not give up my blanket.  Fevers make you chilly, my dear furry friend with the eccentricities. ;)

Keanna comes on Tuesday.  I should warn her I've been sick but I don't think I'm contagious anymore if it was the flu.  (Hard to know when you already feel like you have the flu 24/7--sad, but true.)  Fever seems to have broken finally on Saturday night.  And now it's the end of the month...so I have all that stuff to do...set up my bullet journal for April, monthly banking, and I am a week behind on journaling.  *sigh*  That's how you really know I have not felt great at all...never even got to my daily journaling all week long!  Another clear sign is I had dirty dishes left overnight on the counter or in the sink.  The little OCD things I normally would never let slide.  

But hopefully I will get diagnosed this coming week and get regular antibiotics if I need them.  I quit the preventative antibiotics on Saturday, I think it was.  Pointless to take/waste them when they obviously weren't working and if I might need to be taking regular antibiotics in a few days anyways.  Will discuss my future with antibiotics with Dr. Agamawi this week, I assume.  Oh, the joys of medical mysteries--lol!

Meanwhile, I am just working on getting better.  Body misery of some degree or another I am definitely no stranger to.  But I'd much prefer for it to be a casual acquaintance rather than when it's a constant, overbearing, annoying companion, if you know what I mean--lol!  The silver lining today was getting to spend time with Leah and with the boys.  That was soul lifting.  Helps you to get through the rough spots, those people we love. ;) 

Thanks for all the cards and birthday wishes.

Thankful my laptop is up and running again.

Hopeful it will be a better week body-wise.

Have a great week!  See you next Monday.  :)