Lunchtime wave Hello. I slept 10 hours or so last night and I’m groggy already, plus I have an evening class. I suspect that the “non-drowsy” claim on Walgreens Allegra clone is less than accurate.
Hello, all.
Oh man, I really didn’t want to read this and I’m sure you really didn’t want to type it. Shingles was the worst pain I’ve even experienced, even worse than gout. You might consider that prescrip just in case, Bear. It can get a little rough. Good luck and keep the extreme exertion to a minimum.
Oh… and if anyone is a Mom, or like has “Mom” in their username or anything then, of course, Happy Mom’s Day Sunday. You’ve earned it.
lieu, first off howdy and welcome back! I can get the ‘scrip for the pain meds if I want it but if I can do without it I shall. Da bear don’t like to take prescription drugs unless he really, really, really needs to do so. I feel a little loopy from the antiviral medication as it is. Speakin’ of which, did I mention she gave me enough samples for ten days? Score!
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So, I went to convenient care and saw a doc. Low grade fever, malaise, a mild rash on my lower right back that’s tingly and sensitive but nor real hurty yet = a mild case of shingles. SHEESH! On the up side, I saw the rash this mornin’ for the first time so it’s all really just startin’. I have some antiviral meds…
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At least you were able to get the (just guessing here) Valtrex samples, rather than going to the pharmacy and wondering what the pharmacist is thinking about you.
Also good that you were able to spot it early before it got bad.
Maybe today’s project should be changing the locks.
{{{ ** Swampy ** }}}
Don’t want to hug you too tightly.
I agree with you about not wanting to take pain meds, but I agree with ::big wave to lieu:: that it might be a good thing to have them on hand.
People are weird.
I’m half watching Dr Phil and this woman is bitching that one of her bridesmaids is trying to steal her husband away from her. The bridesmaid says the husband forced himself on her, he says it was consensual, she got pregnant. Custody battle and drama drama drama … but anyway the man has already admitted to having five affairs and his wife is upset that the bridesmaid wants to take him away. I think she should give him to her.
kind of reminds me of many many years ago when I found out the man I was dating was married. I was breaking it off with him and he said he wanted to marry me. I blurted out, ‘Why in the hell would I want to marry a man who cheats on his wife?’.
Why do women fight over men like this? Just once on Jerry Springer I’d love to see a woman say I don’t want him you can have him. Only to have the other woman say well I don’t want the lying cheat either. Then they can walk off the stage as friends and use his credit card to go shopping and get a nice lunch.
That is the proper response.
Did I tell y’all that met my friends son-in-law? The one tried to kill her daughter. Up until now I’d never met him. All I could think is if that scrawny little ass had tried to kill me he might have been the one down on the floor begging me for his life.
I really didn’t know what to say to him beyond ‘hi’. I couldn’t say nice to meet you because it wasn’t. I couldn’t ask him how he was doing because I don’t care. When my friend told him that I had just had a heart attack as well he had to one up me because he got three stents to my two and I’m thinking you want to one up me on whose heart attack was worse!!!
Hey, next time maybe he’ll die and that will make him the winner!!!
I don’t know, what do you say to a man who tried to kill his wife?
Maybe I should write Miss Manners?
Believe me, I have considered it.
Good luck with the shingles, swampy. it’s been two weeks for my wife without the steroids and antihistamines she was prescribed, and it’s still keeping her awake at night and drained of energy during the day. I would recommend going back to the doctor, getting everything she wants to prescribe, and take it religiously. That’s nothing to tough out, really.
The kittehs have a refurbished tower. They’d pretty much destroyed the carpet we’d wrapped around the center post of the original, so we (OK, FCD) replaced it with 3/8" natural rope, wound around tightly. Taz has already used it to scratch and to climb to the top platform. I took a scrap of the rope, tied a knot in it, and screwed it under one of the platforms so it’ll dangle down for play time. We’ll see whether it gets used or not. Ziva has yet to emerge from the bedroom to check it out. While it was in the shop being fixed, I ran the vacuum. Ziva doesn’t like the vacuum. Oh well.
We were supposed to see mid-80s today, but it’s barely broken 70°. Which suits me fine - I hate turning on the air. I’m afraid we’ll have to on Monday and Tuesday because it’s supposed to hit 88° - UGH! It’s just May - can we enjoy spring just a little longer, considering we froze for the first part. Stoopit weather.
**swampy **- the shingles is your karmic punishment for tormenting me. Kindly suffer in silence. 
OK, and feel better soon, you old fart.
I have some countertop laminate advertised for free and I got a call from some guy - didn’t leave his name or number but he said he wants it. I’m hoping if he really wants it, he’ll call back. I want it OUT of my garage! I may just call Habitat for Humanity and offer it to them.
Going to a rehearsal tonight, and then a party. Pictures at an Exhibition, here we come!
{{{swampy}}}
Good luck to** FCDaughter**!
I am sitting here both worried about and angry at my mother. In the last several months her depression has reached a critical point so much so that she’s nauseated and can’t eat much and has lost probably around 40 pounds or so. It’s weight that she needed to lose, but not that way. I’m concerned about her because I don’t want to see her suffer, but I’m angry with her because pretty much everyone she knows told her that she needed to find something to do with herself once she retired and yet she CHOSE to sit on the couch all day everyday and watch TV. She won’t even walk to the mailbox (about a 300 yard walk) on a sunny day to check the mail. I hate this and it sucks so much, but I don’t know what to do to help someone who won’t help herself, even if she is my mother. 
gotti yep, it’s Valtrex. I took the first dose and was a little loopy but now not so much, so maybe it won’t make me a basket case. Thanks for the hugs and such y’all. What with the free meds, calamine lotion, Tylenol, oatmeal baths, and stayin’ in the A/C I believe I shall survive. It’s really a more achy than hurty feelin’. OYKW even offered to hightail it back to see about me, the big ol’ sweetie, but I told him that would not be necessary. I shall stay put all weekend and if I think I shouldn’t, then I can take Moanday off irk or irk from da cave.
Sean I remember you talkin’ about your wife and how she resisted goin ’ to get herself seen about. Rememberin’ that was pretty much the decidin’ factor that made me go to convenient care just in case.
I have added this to the list of reasons I like you! 
ETA: {{{StickyBuns}}} all we can do sometimes is worry. Heck, I kinda wish my mom would slow down, but she lurves to be on the go. Here’s hopin’ your mom will consider some things she could do like hookin’ up with a senior citizens group to socialize some if nuttin’ else.
“Hi. Kill anyone today?”
“Day ain’t over yet.”
I would go with a frosty “Oh. It’s you.”
rosie’s .sig to all!
Well the groceries got delivered and I have no idea where we are going to put them.
Safeway had some nice sales going on so I stocked up on soup and stuff. Sah-son told me I’d better not order anything for another month. HA! The way he eats! He’ll need food in less than a week.
The hounds from hell are ripping their bedroom door apart. I am waiting for the day they come all the way through it.
I need to get busy. I have been a lazy slug for too long.
Revivin’ the MMP.
I had a nice bath with some oatmeal bath stuff. Felt good. I’m all calamine lotioned and have taken the next dose of shingles med. Livin’ it up on Firday night I am!
Jesus Christ.
What does it mean, “Firday”?
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Jesus Christ.
I’m irking
Talk about living it up.
It’s not so bad, I watch TV and surf the net in between calls. In fact, a sure fire way to get the phone to ring is to find something interesting online. Without fail the phone will ring in the last five minutes of a show I am interested in.
Flytrap it’s not nice to tease would be murderers.
Spaz I wish I had thought of that.
I felt kind of on the spot with the meeting. I was hoping I would be out of there before he showed up.
howdy. Blessed Firday!
Swampy dang it on the shingles. Here’s hoping it is a mild case.
Mom my hubby took care of his poor Mom for several years and he was the further away son. It cost us about $30K in debt. She deserved it but it’s hard.
I hope all the Mom’s here have a wonderful Mother’s Day.