Congrats to your sister, smonster!

Add me to the list of peeps who think Teppy should go to Urgent Care. You poor woman.

Shanie's first birthday party (sob): [link]

Shane in the ball pit made me snorfle. So cute.

Don't sob, Glam. They just get more interesting. The baby era is closing but the toddler era has much to recommend it.

Gorgeous cake, too.

I keep trying gargling with salt water but it doesn't come near touching where my throat actually hurts - above the mouth but below the nose. Maybe if i snort salt water? Yeah, no, that doesn't seem like a good idea. The more i look at diagrams, the more i think my current problem is not actually my throat by my adenoids - that's exactly where the pain is, and it spreads to my ears every time i yawn, cough, or swallow. And ibuprofen has stopped working :( It's kinda fascinating, how much this particular bout of ick is moving and progressing each day. It's like the wheel of illness: where will it land next?!?! )

Don't sob, Glam. They just get more interesting. The baby era is closing but the toddler era has much to recommend it.

Oh yeah. I'm loving watching him grow and looking forward to his first words, first steps, etc. It's just going so fast now!

I did not go to Urgent Care, and I slept about 10 hours. I still feel crappy, but my lungs aren't hurting the way they did yesterday. I still have that nagging cough, but no fever.

Honestly, unless I take a turn for the worse today, I'm just going to wait to call my doctor tomorrow. He's seen me twice for this illness, so I'd rather he see me since he can assess how it's developed/changed.

I'm not one to rush for antibiotics, especially in a case where they wouldn't do any good. But this started at the end of November/very beginning of December, so that's been 3 weeks. And it's been 3 weeks in which it's only gotten worse/more complicated. So maybe antibiotics are in order. Or, I don't know, robotic lungs. I wonder if my health insurance covers robotic lungs?

If I *do* feel suddenly worse today -- if my lungs start hurting the way they did yesterday -- I'll make Tim take me to Urgent Care. Promise.

Glad it's improving, if only slightly. The no fever part is somewhat reassuring. (It sure reassures me!)

I think someone needs to invent a device similar to the saliva-suckers dentists use, but smaller and quieter that you can put in your mouth at night to eliminate that need for swallowing. I swear, if i didn't have to swallow i could fall asleep so much faster! and not have to keep a towel over the pillow to catch all my drool. yuck.

Teppy, I hope you're feeling better very soon.

GC, your birthday boy is a cutiepie!

oooh, just now while irrigating my nasals i tried sniffing down some of the salt water then spitting it out. stopped hurting for almost 10 minutes!

erin_o, I meant to say yesterday that I recommend keeping up with the nasal irrigation even if the immediate effects aren't as brilliant as you hope. There is some cummulative value to continued cleansing of the nasal passages and sinuses. I find that even those times when it doesn't seem to give me the immediate relief I am used to from it, it helps in the long run. I'm glad if it helped even in a minor way with the pain in the adenoids.

Teppy, I'm glad you got some good rest, and that you have a plan to get the care you need.

I want both of you, and everybody else who isn't feeling at the top of their games (including me) to feel better.

Disability makes it difficult to decide when to exercise as it usually wipes me out. If I wait too long, I might not do it (esp in short daylight periods). If I go to early, I don't have energy left for the other things I need/want to do. I'm now wiped from the morning's exercise and will probably take a nap that will mess up my sleeping hours.

After a couple days cooped inside because of the rain, I decided I was going to have to go out in it anyway. I walked 3 mi RT from our house to the beginning of East LA. There's a community garden out that way I figured I'd take a look at. I had an umbrella but I really underestimated how hard it was raining and, more importantly, how much flooding there was. I had to ford "rivers" several times on the way home because there was no other choice for a pedestrian. When I got home, there were few parts of me that weren't soaked. The shoes/socks were a total loss. My jeans were so stiff with water it was hard to take them off.

Still, I need to get exercise. I hurt even more if I don't exercise.

Saw some interesting stuff, which is the advantage walking has over most other forms of transport. Took some pictures, including one of an impromptu waterfall: [link]