Health: not as bad as you thought
…cross fingers and all that. My earlier post on this talked about dealing with a new set of docs at Edward Hospital, and so far, it’s paying off. I’m on long-range doses of penicillin for the near future, about 2g a day (broken into four pills) and have to wash myself down with Hibiclens (surgical scrub soap) daily or so. The stuff does work well, and we’ve also found that using it on Dot the dog seems to help a lot in controlling HER skin infections.
Mere has been dopy and tired and seemingly on and off sick over the last week or so; nothing dramatic, just a medium simmer of feel-like-crap and tired that has been miserable for her (and us, since she’s easily honked off when she’s sick and gets miserable to deal with, oh joy). Missed three days of school over a LONG weekend last weekend. We’re unsure exactly what’s going on there, as various tests at the doctor’s came up with nothing.
Both she and I are scheduled this next weekend to get H1N1 shots from the local county health department; we’re both considered high-risk. Our usual doctor’s office said that they didn’t have any H1N1 and didn’t know when they’d get it in. (And no, I’m not about to fool with live-virus stuff, I’m not nuts.)
She also got a new set of glasses - she had gone from a 1.75 to a 2.75, and hadn’t told us until very recently that she was having problems! Which, of course, is not cheap - our insurance is pretty good, but it really doesn’t cover much in the vision and dental direction.
Needless to say, Mere being sick has played a lot of heck with our schedules. There’s much more to tell, in another post or seven….