For my friend Syd,

Day five stopped coughing long enougn to try to laugh. Found this on internet and thought of you: http://www.beliefnet.com/Video/Jokes/Christian-Jokes/Long-Distance-Calls.aspx

video joke, ha ha ha

H1N1 Day five

Well day four was the worst one yet. Instead of getting better with this H1N1 you get worse. The puking and other tummy trouble started yesterday. Had to crawl up stairs, no strength to walk. Now I'm weak and actually a little hungry, but I'm surely not eating anything...

I have hope for day five! Yay day five, here we go. Throat still excruciating, haven't puked in a while, hoorah! 7:40 a.m. good night!

H1N1 Day 4

Think it's getting worse now. If only my throat didn't hurt so much the rest would be manageable I think.

H1N1 and Highlights

Okay they have nothing to do with each other except I wouldn't have had time to read this if I wasn't sick.

Highlights has done it again. They have interviewed 850 some kids and tallied their responses on certin issues. Check out http://media.highlights.com/pdf-newsroom/StateoftheKid.pdf For the state of the kid. Interesting reading.

I also read on my paper from the hospital that you can get H1N1 from laughter, you know the little evil molecules of moisture that escape when you laugh, so I'd lie to think that I got this from laughter. It makes me feel better and I do really laugh my bum off every day. Kid are funny and teachers are even funnier (sometimes when they don't even mean to me).

Okay off to sleep again, stick a fork in me, I'd done.

H1N1

Aaaaaahhhh razor blades slowly cutting the back of my throat. What the f... It was quite a job but I did it - changed my sheets! waaaa the crowd goes wild. Normally not such a bad job, today a Herculian effort. I did hang my comforter outside on a bush for ten minutes to de-germ. I wish I had a washer and dryer. But we only do what we can. I changed my sheets, it is 9:42 am. Good night.

Owwwww my throat. I am done. My ginger ale just exploded a bit in my bed and I am too tired to change my sheets. Going to roll over and go to sleep.

H1N1 - yeah of course just my luck

Well I got it. Of course I did, Murphy’s law and all of that. If you haven’t had it I’ll tell you about it.

It started at 10:30 at night I was standing in the kitchen making lunches and the pain in the top of my back was so bad I could barely stand so I went in to living room and laid on the floor until I felt better, then I did some stretches for my back. Finished lunches and off to bed. In the morning, I felt woozy, woozy and wooshy and my throat was on fire. (certainly those are technical terms.) But drove to work thinking I’m just getting a cold. When I got to school I was sweating, five minutes later I was frozen, then I coughed and my throat was torn up and I coughed up phelm. As I did though my chest completely constricted and so did my breathing tubes. I could barely talk. But the time first block started I could only speak softly or it hurt like someone was rubbing broken glass on the back of my throat.

I knew I was done, the school luckily found me a sub for the rest of the day and I went home. Called Dr said I think I have bronchitis, it is difficult to breathe throat is killing me and told them that a student of mine had H1N1 she went home from school Tuesday I think. Nurse told me I did not have H1N1 because I would be more exhausted and my body aches wouldn’t just be in my back they’d be everywhere. She said they don’t want people with the flu in the office anyway. I had no temperature at that time and explained that I had taken a lot of Advil and had a temp earlier. I went out and got cough syrup, a humidifier, and Vicks like she told me.

Three hours later I was really feeling really, really like crap, so I call back and said what if I have strep, cause I had a kid with that too. She said I needed to take my temperature before my next Advil and see what that was and let someone know if it was 101. I told her it was 99 on the Advil. She told me I could come in the next day or go to the walk-in care just to make myself feel better, it seems I needed to. Well one hour later my temperature was 102.4. I guess the bitchy nurse was wrong (I wish she wasn’t) but everyone tells you to call you Dr. with your flulike symptoms. Don’t bother cause they don’t want you there. The walk in care was wonderful in contrast. Very nice, clear explained everything. I am on Tylenol, Advil, and Percoset. I am staying in my room and not coming out without a mask. My daughter was already exposed to me, the day before was my birthday (Happy Birthday H1N1). But I hope she doesn’t get it, talking and breathing are so difficult it must be so scary for a child. Poor kids with this. Dr. said you will feel like you are going to die for four days, and then you won’t. Okay, I can live with that.

Nighty night.
I do want to add I handwashed and sanitized like a crazy person, still got it...

Sorry It's Been Soooo Long, Busy Busy

Well I have to buy a laptop. Have you tried to buy a laptop, holy moly. There are so many kinds of laptops out there, with so many features. All of the features however are named something else depending on the company or even the model within the company’s name. Like I know we need to purchase a dual core whatever it is, but there are five different names some don’t even say duo they say 2x. Pretty good huh. Is it better to buy from the company or to buy from the store. At say Dell’s website you have to pay extra for every feature, perhaps at the store they are bundled. No one’s laptops comes with Office. I found that out. I went to Walmart to price check and then found out I do not know how to tell if there is a wireless card or not inside.

No I can’t afford a laptop! It will be the first thing ever I put on my credit card and hope it doesn’t cost a fortune in interest or start a credit snowball effect, because the only money I owe is a whole lotta money for student loans. I am hoping I will be able to get something under $500. That is a huge hope because it will have no programs in it!

Why am I now in the market for a laptop you may ask? Well you may remember I received a laptop from my friend and literature professor at college as a gift. I should never have accepted that gift. I knew it was wrong and I just think I took it because I wanted one so badly and couldn’t not afford one. I use this thing everyday, at home and at school. It is like my right arm. Well, I received a letter last week that my esteemed professor wants $1,000 for the laptop he bought me three years ago! I can’t send him $1,000 or the $100 a month he thinks is fair. It may be wrong of me but I am just going to box it up and send it back to him.

He thinks we are not friends anymore and as we are not friends, I should pay him back. We are not, not friends but I don’t have time for a social life between regular school, Hebrew school, getting my Master’s, and writing my book that I need to graduate, I don’t have time for a social life unless it is with a little eight year old who I love more than air! If I had it I would sent it right away. I don’t. Even though I am working now and not in school I have more expenses and don’t get help anymore. He thinks I have money but I really don’t.. We are more comfortable than we were before but I don’t think that my daughter should suffer which is where the cutbacks would have to come from birthday gifts for other kids, clothes, special foods she likes, the new piano lessons she just started which are only $10 a week. I can’t make her suffer because a grown man with a Ph.D. is out of work for years now. He was a brilliant literature professor and I wish he would find a university position again, so more students can benefit from his knowledge as I have. I wish him well but can’t pay him so I am packing up my baby and sending it back after all this time, electrical tape on the cord and all. I hope he can sell it for some of the money he needs...

How you know you look like crap...

On my way out to Rosh Hashana services my daughter looks at me and says, "If anyone asks you why you look so bad just tell 'em your sick, okay mom?"

I do have a little cold but I didn't know I looked that bad!

Happy New Year! It is the year 5770. (Silly you thought it was 2009)