Take a Walk on the Wild Side
Obviously, I've suddenly gotten old, as they say.
I remember when "Taking a Walk on the Wild Side" involved riding a half-wild horse hell bent for leather through a field and just hoping that the horse didn't put a foot wrong, tossing me over its head like poor Christopher Reeve. Or driving to the next job site at 3 am, which was a lot like flying through the darkness, the velvety night air whuffling at the window of the car. Or hanging by one's fingernails on the edge of a cliff, while a water spout tore up the nearby lake. Sigh, those were the days...
These days, it has a whole new connotation.
I'm home, glassy eyed with fever-- in the clutches of pneumonia-- and thinking that I can certainly understand how two of my great-great grandmothers died of it. While young. The antibiotics are the size of horse pills, and I struggle to wash them down. They make me nauseous, and I feel that I'm permeated with that sickly penicillin smell. My cough feels as if it is coming up out of Nellie's trunk, and I fondly remember her more unusual quirks. (Nellie was my 1965 Mercury Comet.) She had a spare frame, (unlike me), but gamely went everywhere. She was intrepid. Not me, not today.
Band let out at 5 pm, so I staggered around, got semi-dressed, and got out long enough to pick up my son, Matthew, from practice. We stopped at McDonald's on our way home, to get something to eat. I wanted a salad, thinking that something fresh sounded good. "Grilled chicken or crispy?" the guy asked.
I said, "I feel like living dangerously today-- give me crispy, and an extra ranch dressing..." I've been so good, I've never even tasted the crispy chicken on a salad, and boy, now that I've had a bit of the high life, that's what I'm getting from now on...
Anyway, the guy at the window said, "Dangerously? You feel like living dangerously?" and chuckled. I could see his eyes noting my gray hair, and worn face.
So I told him, "Sometimes, you just have to take a walk on the wild side..."
Einstein was right. It's all relative..
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UGH. Tomorrow will be better!
Did you try massive doses of vitamin C ? It sometimes helps ...
Yes, I always try that! I think it's beyond a little "C"...
Thanks for your help!
I didn't say "a little" . I said a lot . Open a chat if you want more details ...
Petey, I took 10,000 mg. More than that, and it makes me sick to my stomach... I take C just about every day, but not that much...
Thank you, for your help!
Dowser, a walk on the wild side while be ill, is probably a good thing. Takes your mind off the illness.
Lot's and lot's of Chicken soup for you my dear.
Thank you, Kavika! I need to send my family for some... There is a new Japanese place down the road a piece, that maybe they will visit and bring me some kind of chicken broth with a wonton or two...
I've spent $250 on medications the past couple of days, and have two bottles of pills that I can't swallow. Golly! It costs a lot of $$ to be sick!
Dowser, dear lady. Take care of yourself. Hopefully tomorrow will be better. I go to McDonalds about 2 times a year. Always have the fishwich (polllock) and fries.
I love their fish sandwiches! We have one about 2 blocks from our house, and no, it is not a culinary delight, but it is hot food, quick. Sigh!
Right now, I'll take what I can get!
Run down....... Don't do too much walking on any side. Rest, Rest, Rest, Rest
Thanks, dear Six! My potassium is low, too, so I got the meds I'm supposed to take for that, too. Oh my, they could be fed to My Friend Flicka! I called the pharmacy and said, There is no way I can take these pills. They are too large and they grate all the way down. Please, give me the same dose in something that I can swallow. I'm happy to take 6 pills, if I can just swallow them.
It's just been one of those days...
Dowser, I assume you have never had pneumonia before? If the pills arent' capsules find out if you can cut them in half. The main thing is to make sure you get enough liquids and plenty of rest. I mean get that rest. Get a friend, husband or someone to make those trips to pick your son up if possible. Take those antibotics, even if you have crush them (make sure that is OK to do).
I think I had the boogy-woogy flu last week! UGH... BTW, I love that song! It's hard to dance in bed, but I think I could manage it!
Yes, my poor husband is working 12-14 hours per day and Matthew's knee is still not completely recovered, but they are both doing what they can to help. I am very grateful for them!
I'm taking this antibiotic-- it is a huge pill, but it goes down because the outside is smooth. The other potassium pills flake off, as they go down and get stuck. UGH!!! Nothing like coughing up pill fragments... They're fixing it, supposedly. I'm going to try to get out long enough to pick them up, and Matthew from school. Then, back to bed!
Still, I've had liquid potassium, and that is like drinking unjelled jello that tastes like dirty sweat socks. The nastiest stuff known to mankind-- right up there with banana flavored penicillin! YUK!
Thanks, Six, for your loving concern!
Hope you're able to rest tonight and wake a little more like your ole' self! This time of the year has a tendency to knock the slats out of us, have been dealing with a bronchial/coughing jag since Thanksgiving.
Praying for your healing and hoping your schedule allows time for rest...if it doesn't, clear your calendar gal and take some "self" time.
Lynne, I hope you're feeling better! EEEK, is all I can say about it.
Somehow, I've managed to wear myself down, low on potassium, etc. So, yes, I'm being an utter slug and resting. I hope tonight I can rest, and am going to close my door to keep all the kitties out. My three young ones, the white ones, have discovered that old Mom is a pretty good lovey, so they have been pestering me in the night. Tonight, no lovies! Funny, without their help, I can sleep 12 hours and never bat an eye...
Please feel better, dear friend!
Poor Dowser! Sorry to hear that you are so ill.
LOL on taking a walk on the wild side. I remember the first time I heard Lou Reed sing " I wanna be black"... that was in like 1982.. maybe 80? egads that is 35 years ago... I couldn't be that old.
Well, I think he was handsome! I loved his music!
When this song came out, I didn't understand the words that well, and never really knew what it was all about. Needless to say, NOW I get it. I seriously doubt that he would have even spoken to me, hick that I am, but I always thought he was great! A shame he is gone, now. All the good ones are dying off, it seems.
Yeah, it's hell to get old.
Dear Dowser, I sure hope you don't have pneumonia ! If you do please take lots of rest, stay horizontal as much as possible. You're such a favorite on NT, your sweet nature and your brilliant scientific knowledge are such an asset to this site !
Pat, dear friend, I do have pneumonia, low potassium, and a couple of other things are out of whack. I'm just dead, all the time, and staying in bed. Thank you so much for your concern!
You are so sweet-- thank you, for your help!
I wish I could see that poster! For some reason, it didn't load properly! Drat!!!
I slept only 7 hours last night, thanks to the dang phone that kept ringing... The drug store is making up an order or pills that I can swallow. Thank heavens!
These things that I have closely resemble the giant chlorine disinfecting tablets we used to drop down into the wells, years ago... They were the size of cupcakes!
Wonderful poster! I hope I can find it on Kindle or something to watch it!
Thank you!!!
I'm coughing, in sympathy...
Hoping your medications are kicking in and you're beginning to feel better
. Don't you find being sick when your Superwoman is tedious! Love you, you're superpowers will return...your a woman!! LOL.