Surgery--Again

Just saying good morning to you from my part of the planet, Roberta.
I just wish those bloody steroids would do their bloody job properly!

littlek, It's possible that the steroids are working. Don't know how much worse this would have been without them. Just can't be sure. Thanks for the proxy sighing.

Hugs sweetie -- every day is closer to being done.

So I called the doctor. I'm not better, I tell her. I'm not worse either, except that we both think I should be better by now.

She increases the amount of steroids I'll be taking daily. And I should continue taking the antibiotic I started taking last week for the respiratory infection. Problem. I have $6.50 in the bank. Can't pay for another prescription. So I walked to the doctor's office to get free samples of the antibiotic. Can't walk hardly at all, so it took me a while. Panting, but I got the samples.

Made a small deposit, so I'll be able to pay for the steroids when the scrip runs out.

Yes, $6.50. Had a few unexpected expenses. Not even thinking about the rent or utilities at this point. Just need money for food and to get me places. Unexpected expenses suck. Money (the absence of it) sucks. Asthma sucks. Cancer sucks.

I'm in a sucky state of mind. Aaaaaaaarrrrggggghhhhh. And snarl.

On the zapping scene, my only side effect so far is DRY MOUTH. Thought I knew from dry mouth. This is a Saharan dryness. I'm talking dry. Absence of moistness. Tongue sticking places. Seriously dry.

Otherwise, everything is peachy (except when it sucks--or sticks.)

Hey Boida...

ice chips... would that help at all.... sucking on ice chips????

one more zap down....

thinking of you girl
xox

Thinking of you hon.

Izzie, Ice chips are, well, too icy. Water does me just fine.

jes, Thinking of you back and wishing you a HNY.

Just want you to know that you are in my thoughts. I'm so sorry all these things are happening to you ,Roberta.

a toast to new beginnings

that toast being made with a low acid beverage of your choice

Thanks Raggedy and Bethie.

For all the things that we may have said or done that were wrong or hurtful, forgive us, pardon us, grant us atonement.

My apologies to you and anyone on A2K I have hurt or offended over the past year.

Hugs.

jes, You never said nuttin' but good stuff to me, and I appreciate it.

I'm taking the bull by the horns, the matter into my own hands. I'm going to battle the asthma/infection/congestion with chicken soup. Homemade. Shoulda thunk of this sooner.

Are you saying that you HAVEN'T yet used that ultimate weapon?

Well. You'll be feeling better in no time.

I am a firm believer in chicken soup and, if the AMA won't recognize it, I have never found a naturopathic specialist who didn't believe it has medicinal properties. Another popular home remedy being discussed on the milk thread is raw unpasteurized unhomogenized cow's milk. Asthma is one of many common maladies that has been reported to have cleared up using it. It couldn't hurt.

Meanwhile still sitting and waiting with you until this too passes.

add a bit extra of black pepper.

and a few onions....

x

there's been no chicken soup yet?

I've had a few distractions and didn't think of the soup. It's brewing now. I hope I get to slurp some of it. Things are not good. I may have to go to the ER. I'd insert a scream here, but I don't have the strength.

Yikes.

Brewing gives me some hope though. Hard part's done, just wait until it's finished... and then eat...?

(How serious are things? Can't really tell if you're being flip. I really hope not very serious.)

Extremely serious. Doctor wanted me to go earlier. I said I can't afford to go and didn't feel that I needed to go. Now, I'm not so sure. Well, sure I can't afford it, but not so sure about feeling that I don't need it.

Just got another prescription delivered and took it. Another antibiotic. A generic. Won't have any money at all very soon. Which worries me more? Not sure.

Not joking about any of this.

As if all this weren't enough, I had carrots in the house, but they got moldy. Never happened before. So I'm making soup without carrots. Will it work? Dunno.

Fed up.