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The Week In Review
May. 15th, 2011 01:17 pmIt has sucked. Full stop.
It started off pretty good. My lovely and talented wife, Snippy, and I went to Lincoln City for the weekend. Got up Saturday morning and drove down. Got a nice suite overlooking the ocean. We could see and hear the surf from our room. Had delicious meals at Kyllo's restaurant. Returned home Sunday afternoon.
Alas, Snippy was already succumbing to illness when we went to the coast. By Sunday afternoon, she was considerably worse. I wasn't doing great, myself.
So...she missed a week of work. She's been deathly ill, feverish, with headaches, sinus pressure, sinus drainage, wracked by coughs, barely able to lie in bed (or, occasionally, sit in the recliner next to the bed) and watch tv when she wasn't up to reading. I've been waiting on her hand and foot. On Thursday, when it was clear that she was not getting any better, she called her doctor. Phone discussions followed, and she received an Rx for antibiotics. I went and picked them up. She's improving now--the fever's gone and she has some life in her again--but clearly isn't over it yet. She's probably going to stay home from work again tomorrow.
I'm sick as well. I don't know if it's the same thing, only less intense, or if it's something else. But while I have fatigue, sinus pressure, headache, sinus drainage, a persistent cough, and general malaise, I'm not bedridden. (Which is not to say that I haven't slept or dozed plenty when I had the chance--it doesn't take much to exhaust me at the moment.) But taking care of her, and the occasional short trip out to the drug or grocery store for foodstuffs or supplies is about all I'm good for lately. I sure as heck haven't written anything this week. I have no concentration.
Twoson has it too. Just like me. We're a fun, sickly bunch at the moment.
On the plus side, I got a personal rejection on a short story. The editor "was impressed" with the story, though he couldn't use it, and invited me to send them more. He said he wasn't generally interested in vampire stories, but he was "engrossed" by mine, which was an atypical tale. So...yay!
I've been exploring Second Life on my computer lately. Largely because it requires almost no brainpower to do. I'll have plenty to say about it, eventually. But right now...I don't have the concentration to really go into it. And I should go check up on my poor sick wife anyhow.
Later.
It started off pretty good. My lovely and talented wife, Snippy, and I went to Lincoln City for the weekend. Got up Saturday morning and drove down. Got a nice suite overlooking the ocean. We could see and hear the surf from our room. Had delicious meals at Kyllo's restaurant. Returned home Sunday afternoon.
Alas, Snippy was already succumbing to illness when we went to the coast. By Sunday afternoon, she was considerably worse. I wasn't doing great, myself.
So...she missed a week of work. She's been deathly ill, feverish, with headaches, sinus pressure, sinus drainage, wracked by coughs, barely able to lie in bed (or, occasionally, sit in the recliner next to the bed) and watch tv when she wasn't up to reading. I've been waiting on her hand and foot. On Thursday, when it was clear that she was not getting any better, she called her doctor. Phone discussions followed, and she received an Rx for antibiotics. I went and picked them up. She's improving now--the fever's gone and she has some life in her again--but clearly isn't over it yet. She's probably going to stay home from work again tomorrow.
I'm sick as well. I don't know if it's the same thing, only less intense, or if it's something else. But while I have fatigue, sinus pressure, headache, sinus drainage, a persistent cough, and general malaise, I'm not bedridden. (Which is not to say that I haven't slept or dozed plenty when I had the chance--it doesn't take much to exhaust me at the moment.) But taking care of her, and the occasional short trip out to the drug or grocery store for foodstuffs or supplies is about all I'm good for lately. I sure as heck haven't written anything this week. I have no concentration.
Twoson has it too. Just like me. We're a fun, sickly bunch at the moment.
On the plus side, I got a personal rejection on a short story. The editor "was impressed" with the story, though he couldn't use it, and invited me to send them more. He said he wasn't generally interested in vampire stories, but he was "engrossed" by mine, which was an atypical tale. So...yay!
I've been exploring Second Life on my computer lately. Largely because it requires almost no brainpower to do. I'll have plenty to say about it, eventually. But right now...I don't have the concentration to really go into it. And I should go check up on my poor sick wife anyhow.
Later.